The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-22
TAMMANY CHIEFS
MAY Be INDICTED
ONGRAFT CHARGES
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Six Secret Witnesses Give
Whitman Evidence Aimed at
Ten Beside Sweeney.
STOOL PIGEON" TALKS.
Declares He Appraised Harlem
Resorts for Sweeney 10 Fix
Protection Rate.

Preparing for the session on Mon
day OF the special Grand Jury which
will continue its Investigation OF police
graft uncovered In Harlem. where Capt.
formerly 1nspector) Dennis Sweeney
held sway. District Attorney Whitman
to-day interviewed at his home six wit
nesses whom he will call to testify.
District-Attorney whitman is stick
ing close to the sixth Inspection Dis
trict, where sweeney was Car. In
that district he has already secured tho
indictments OF Policeman Eugene r.
Fox. Capt. Thomas wafh. Inspector
Sweeney. sergt. Peter }. Duffy and
Policemen Thomas Robinson and John
J. Ilartigan. Fox and Walsh have
made amazing confessions. The others
have remained obdurate. and the
chance that District-Attorney Whit
man would permit them now to turn
states witnesses Is slim.
EVIDENCE POINTS TO 10 OTHERS.
INCLUDING POLITICIANS.
But the six men under indictment do
not constitute all OF the District Attor-
ney's "pIckings' In Harlem. II was ad-
mltted to-day that at least ten other
men are under grave suspicion. and the
~nnesses examined to-day were In con-
nection with these men. though In every
case the trail pointed toward Inspector
Sweeney and the two Tammany chief
tains with whom he Is believed to have
hAA intipate5 guinness" relations.
riAAhoaSh 40 tsnnite announcement has
been made from the District Attorneys
Office. there 10 ground for expectation
that suiYicient evidence will be laid be-
fose the Grand Jury Monday to warrant
consideration Of further indictments
against sweeney. and to lndict several
minor officials In Harlem a. graft COL
isetors or Intermediates.
The most important witnesses Monday
VIII 10 . man and his wife, whose idsn-
titles are xesiously guarded. and who
were In consultation yesterday for sew
eral hours with Mr.. Whitman and Az
sistant District-Attorney 0roehi. who
discovered them. Tho story they will
tell 10 said 10 be one OF the most al
founding revelations Of police graft
methods yet told.
The man has confessed to the District
Attorney that he was a stool pigeon
for Sweeney. ana that his chief business
WAS reporting TO him on gambling
houses and disorderly resorts In Harlem.
But this "stooi pigeon" was not the
ordinary police stool" His tips were
not used. he tod Mr. whitman. to raid
the RESORT. he reported. Instead. when
~. told OF q new gambling house or dis
ot1sriy resort. This Information wSs
handed 70 q police collector" whose
business Il was to gather craft from
she resort. not to raid II or to arrest the
propristors. II Mas By the ase Of tnis
stool" that Sweeney and his aides were
sah 10 have been able to thoroughly
card-index the resorts In Harlem and &c
systemati.e graft In all Its ramincations
oRAFr APPRAISER ORDERED Te
FLge. AZ SAYS.
On the evidence Of this man. ad
ditional indictments against Sweene
may Be voted. II the Grand Jurors con
sidsr Il necessary to add to the charge
AGAINST the suspended officer.
Another matter this man viii tell tn
Grand Jury will be the manner In whic
ne was ordered to leave New Yor
when Il was known he was beln
sought by tho District-Attorney. TIL
mssnent detectives from Mr.. Whitman
Office began searching for this wttnes,
agents Of the 'syvtein'' were apprise
Of the search. Before the witness wa
found. he had been approached by
lawyer. whose name he has furnishe
TO Mr.. whitman. who told him to lea,
New York. THIS attorney probably wi
be called upon 10 tell for whom he WI
acting. His failure to reveal this II
formation may result in his indictmsi
on the same charges as those again
Edward J. Newell. for driving Geori
4. Sipp from New York.
A sensation 10 predicted for Monds
In the West Side Court. when Assista
District-Attorney James Il. Smith a
pears to prosecute men accused OF ru
ming disordsrly houses in West Fiftie
street. These houses. II has been learn,
by the prosecutors staff, are own,
by q very prominent merchant. Th
man In said TO own many p.eves