New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-04
'SULzER SHOWS, THEN
HIDES, BRANDT PAPERS
lUnSeaIs Records, but Hastily
WithdraWS Them After Hear
ing Carmody and Potter.
WILL SEE FOR HIMSELF
Governor Opposes Bill for Par
don Board and Disdains
Man Who Fears Re-
sponsibility.
IN Te!egrsph o rhe rlibune ]

=, Albany, Jan. S.-Governor Sulzer to-
night unsealed and Immediately after
ward withheld from publication the
,papers in the executive chamber in the
case OF Foll1e T.. Brandt, the former
valet Of Mortimer l. Schlf, sentenced
tn 1907 10 thirty years Imprisonment
lsor breaking into the Schiff residence.
The prisoner applied to Ex-Governor
fDix last spring for a communication OF
lhis sentence. Dix refused to take any
Faction on the application and ordered
tall the papers In the case sealed, stat
Sng that they should be accessible only
10 the Governor and his legal adviser.
Governor Sulzer had reiterated his
kieclaration that any public papers in
the Capitol that were sealed he would
border unssaled.
Does that apply 10 the Brandt case
asked q reporter. Governor DIX
wouldn't allow the papers in that case
BIO be seen"
TN make no comment on that, but
Twill call your attention 10 my message,
bin which said that all public records
fshouId be opened to the public" replied
tMr Sulzer
The Governor later directed his legal
tadviser TO bring forth the papers in the
kBrandt case II the newspaper men de-
ksired to see them. They were found In
Idusty pigeonhole in the archives OF the
,executive chamber. but az they were
.being looked over by the reporters GER
tain things which they contained were
s.slIed TO the attention OF the Gov
iernor.
He then had conference win MT
Potter. Governor DiX's legal ADVISER
land Attorney General Carmody, win
he result that he called the newspaper
reporters before him and directed that
sthe papers be withheld from pubica-
stion until he himself has had an op-
.portunity TO look them over. IL was
Eliminated that the Governors inspec-
aion of the papers would be made AFTER
the present legislative session.
Governor Sulzer declared to-day that
he was decidedly opposed to The Dill
creating a board of pardons, favored
by Governor Dix adding:
am firm believer in individual re-
sponsibility. II a man IL AFRAID OF isspon,
sibility he ought not 10 taAe Tue yoU o -,
being Governor. I'm goihs 'ety siU%
clemency and the granting OF paIdobs'
Just to-day woman came 10 the tAe W
tive chamber cryins. She wanted hel
husband pardoned. $1,000, 60
and she said for mock auctions Ihat
had " said. "Where was he sentenced,
and how much did he get?'' She said he
, in Special Sessions in New York. told
her he was lucky he didn't get a year.
Before she left me she was Smiling; pron-
ably thinking she wasn't so badly on
after all.
The Governor said that he would
consider no appeals for clenency or for
pardons until after the adjournment OF
the Leg ,ature. He added that this
custom prov allied in Washington, and
that during the session the Executive
N was faced by too many important mat
VI ters of state business 10 give proper
4 consideration to requests from prison
ers or their friends.
He emphasized that before consider
ting such appeals he would first secure
reports from prosecuting attorneys and
the judges interested in the cases, and
that il was his desire to give the utmost
publicity 10 this branch Of his duty.
The Governor said that so far as he
knew no applicatio g for clemency
from friends Of Harry Z. Thaw or
.Folke r. Brandt had reached his office