New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-08
Anonymous Phone TaIker At
temptS to Halt District At
torney by Threats About
Involving Friends.
SULZER TO BE A WITNESS
Mcclure Evidence About Tam
many Contributions by Con-
tractors Opens Up New
Line of Investigation
To Be Pursued.

District Attorney Whitman discov-
cred yesterday, after an examination Of
the sworn statements filed with the
Secretary of State by Arthur A. Nc
Lean, Democratic State Treasurer in
1911 that six of the seven contribu-
tons which George II. Mcclure swore
he collected and forwarded were not
listed in the campaign fund statement.
II became apparent yesterday that
some of the persons likely to be con-
nected with the inquiry are making in
sidious efforts to stop Whitman in this
John Doe" proceeding, when the Dis
trict Attorney got a telephone call
from some one who evidently recog-
nized his voice. AS soon as this anony-
nous caller was satisfied that he had
Whitman himself on the telephone he
said:
You'd better stop this thing; your
best friends may be involved if you
don't"
Will Go to Bottom.
The mysterious caller hung up
quickly as soon as he had finished his
warning. and efforts to trace the call
brought the answer that it had come
from a public pay telephone in saloon
in East 23d street.
This message was only one Of num-
Der of similar messages that have been
coming to Whitman by telephone and
anonymous letters since he began the
John Doe" inquiry, and the District
Attorney is inclined to believe that the
continual cropping UP of the insinua-
ton that the inquiry into canal con-
tractors campaign assessments prop
ery belongs upstate rather than in this
county is another chip Of wood from
the same block.
II mean TO go TO the bottom OF this
thing" Whitman said. when he was
asked about the warnings. IF / could
stand for Jack Rose and that gang I
guess I can stand for this new gang"
The District Attorney believes that
the John Doe inquiry will develop the
real facts as to the alleged "sandbag
ging'' of contractors to fatten the Tam
many war chest" and he intends to
call every one who has information on
the subject to the stand.
suIzer Will Be Called.
William Sulzer will be called, and II
he will repeat under oath the state
ments he has previously made from the
stump as TO the transfer Of the Allan
Ryan $1,000 and other contributions
from himself to Murphy, through John
H. Delaney and others, Whitman SAYS
he will subpoena any one Sulzer 70
names except those to whom he would
not risk giving immunity in advance.
From the work of checking up on
McGuire's evidence, done yesterday by
Assistant strict Attorneys John
Kirkland Clark and William D. En-
bree, Whitman was able to outline a
course of inquiry entirely independent
of all the matter that John A. Hen
messy furnished.
MCGUIRE admitted on the stand on
Thursday that he had collected Coli
tributions" from these contractors:
Patrick II. Murray, OF Rochester. $50;
Lane Brothers, of Virginia. 500; Scott
Brothers, of Rome, u. Y, 500; the
Kinser Construction Company, Of Chi
cago, $500; !. NJ. Ludington G. Son. Of
Rochester. 500; Larkin & Sangster, of
Seneca Falls, $50. and NJ. A. Talbot
e. Co., $500.
In McLean's list Of campaign con-
ributions for 1911, the year in which