New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-18
SWEENEY ARRESTED;
HELD IN $4,000 BAIL
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house, a $1,000 home and some vacant
property all in Yonkers. by his thrift
as policeman was not indicted by
the grand jury yesterday.
Further evidence against him will be
submitted. probably to-day, but ii was !
rumored yesterday that he had decided 4
to avail himself of the chance for inn
munity by making frank statement I
of what he knows of police graft, and y
in that case il is doubtful whether he |
will ever he indicted
John j. Hartigan the patroiman |
whose indictment for perjury was a /
direct outgrowth Of the second indict- 7
ment of Sweeney under Section ~" I
of the Penal law. round himself in the ,
tolls of the law largely because he per .
sisted i'm sticking by" the falling star /
of his inspector
According 10 the evidence in Whit +
mans possession. Iiartigan was the |.
messenger who carried $3.50 iro11 /,
Walshs home to Fox in the Criminal /,
Courts Building on the day that foN /,
was discharged from the Tonbs coUr1 /
after the arres which Commissioners /
Waldo precipitated without evidence !
against Fox The grand jury had |
heard i'm detail how Sweeney and /
Walsh together arranged for the pay /,
ment Of $3.50 10 Fox TO be used 80 !
keep Sipp away from the witness chair. /
They had heard how after the night |
l.. 4, T.,
deal was fixed up, Hartigan appeared /
at Walsh's home the following mora /
ing with an envelope which had been /
handed TO him by Sweeney in the in |
spector's Office.
They kno', that Walsh. in Hartigan's T.
presence. opened the envelope ana i
counted over the eight 500 bills which |
it contained then directed his wife To
get 500 from a bureau drawer in his
bedroom, and putting the two Gums to-
gether in another envelope handed If
to Hartigan. From Fox they knew
that HGrtigan had delivered the $3.50
message
In the face of that knowledge Harti-
gan was called before the grand Jury
again yesterday morning He had a
fnai chance to admit that he began his
work on that morning in the office of
Inspector Sweeney, but Hartigan still
insisted that his first connection with
the $500 message to Fox came when he
entered Walshs home. He said that
he had been called there either by
telephone message or by a summons
delivered by some policeman. He could
not remember which.
Hartsan Smiingly lmpudsnt
His attitude both before he went into
and after he came out of the grand
jury room was one of good natured de-
fiance, and he carried the same smiling
impudence into court with him. His
indictment for perjury was foregone
conclusion, however. because of the
mass of facts contradictory TO his
sworn evidence, which was previously
in the hands of the grand jury.
Robinson's indictment. although eX-
pected on general grounds for some
evidence which was submitted To- tho
grand jury only yesterday. and which
was an outgrowth Of the personal in
vestigation Of Sweeney's district made
by District Attorney Whitman and As
sistant District Attorney Frederick j.
Groehl on Saturday.
Along with its serious aspect be-
traying as has nothing else IN the gen
eral graft inquiry the grasping avarice
of g policeman who has once tasted
graft, it carried a humorous sidelight
OF the touching trust reposcd by
Sweeney in his collectors
Tony Tancredi, who owns an Italian
restaurant and small hotel in East
125th street. told the story which re-
suited i'm Robinson's Indictment His
hotel is a small one. and his restaurant
is popular even though ne has no liquor
license. He said yesterday his hotel
profits did not amount to much more
than $50 a month. and that Sweeney's
month. and Walsh's collector with his
demand for $40 month, sapped mp
all his profit in a normal month.
He told how Robinson. when he came
to collect, was usually accompanied by
Sweeney, and how Sweeney would
stand across the street from his place
while Robinson came in to get the
money. Robinson would 60 across to
see Sweeney immediately after making !
the collection. Tancredi said, from
which il appeared that Sweeney trusted
his collector just about as far as he
could see him. and no further
The specific graft payment of Tan
credi. on which Robinson's indictment
was based. was cited in the indictment
as one Of SD, made on August |, 1912.
from which it appeared that the graft
accusations which followed the Rosen-
thai murder on July Is, did not bother
the Harlem inspector to any apprecia-
BILE extent.
Tancredi described his experience |.
with the police system" in a convinc-
ing way. He declared that when first
approached he met the systems rep
resentatives with an absolute refusal
10 pay. He was arrested and got sixty
days on the island. The very day he
returned he was approached again. but
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