The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-05-02

! Rockaway. and after talking over the
phone, told me that Rouss was going
| to see Sweeney and Husscy and call
: him up later
| The defence took up only few
minutes in oss-cxaininetion MI.
Wellman produced a letter written 10y
| Sipp to Sweeney complaining of three
hotels in Harlem. and Swocney's reply,
and sought to have the witness dmit
animosity toward Sweeney for his
troubles at the Central Hotel. Mr.. Well
man also brought out that Sipp had
sworn. in qualifying IA bondsman,
that he was worth 100000 in Nov"m-
' her. 1911. and the following April had
! tried To so into bankruptcy.
A, the Wight session.
ON the redirect examination. which
! opened the night session last night
, Mr.. whitman tried to bring out that
! the three hotels Of which Sipp com
| planned to Sweeney had been cioked
! after Sweeney left the district bu' the
| question was not allowed
Howard Sipp was called after his
! father He corrobora,ed his fathers
| SIOIN so IdI as INV 'dl'l' "'N'''h
his knowledge lie was no, cross-cN-
| amincd. James FuN. brother of Eugene
Fox. corroborated part of his brothers
| TESTIMONY and the defence shortened
matters by conceding that h" would
| testify to the matters in which his
| brother had mentioned him. Again
! there was no cross-examination.
Olaf Nelson. a nephew of FoN's wife,
1 l.!
tative with Inspector Thompson. Mel
son identified Thompson in the court
room as that man over there with his
| hand to his mouth" touching a char
acteristic attitude of Thompson in the
court room. lie said he met Thomp-
| son at l0eth street ana Broadway.
| Nelson said:
| He said 7 hear q lot ~ taih about
| Genes squ-aling lie has nothing to gain
| by that Where would hc get even s2b "'
$40 a week nowadays" lie has every
| thing to gain by sticking He said that
Gene didn't run any chance Of being con
| ViCted and that IL wasn't his fault II tht
sick man in Harlem had been running
the game. Ou account Of the holler thn'
was being raised. he said. they couldn
! get together h!e sum. nut tl25 II month
would bc big IN little while. He said II
| was like iustalmeuts ON furniture. Bu;
| suppose YOU beat 1t with the furniture ~
that's what | said to him. He said he
| wanted to see Gene personally. told
| Gene what h. had told me.
ON cross-examination by MIR Stanch-
field. Nelson, who said he was u clerk
for a telegraph company. declared that
he had not repeated his story to any on'
except Fox. and that the District Attor-
ney had asked him only If he met
Thompson. Mr.. Stanchtield let the cross
examination drop right there.
| TeiephOnes 10 Uuase,.
Miss Bessie Josephine King. a Newar,
telephone girl. was called. but did no,
have to testify. as the defence conceded
telephone calls on December 80 between
the Continental Hotel and Jacob Rouss :
home. and between a Newark pay sta
ton and Inspector lIusseys home. Pc
lice Headquarters in Jamaica. ana
Rousss home. Mr.. whitman had the
telephone records there to prove these
calls.
Jacob Rouss was the last witness O,
the night. His direct examination wa
not finished when court adjourned unit
this morning.
Mrs Walsh was the first witness o'
| the SUe wore lnt same ia
and suit which she wore when she APP
peared on the stand al the trial OF PO-
iiceman John j. liartgan Her test!-
monv covered much the same ground
: She said that sweeney cam. to the
Walsh home the night before Fox was
discharged. at the time when the dan
/. ger of Fox squeaiing If he did not ge
the money was becoming evident.
| Il heard sweeney say he would senC
HartiCan over in the morning" Mrs
! Walsh said and went on to tell Of iIarti
gan's visit, bringing. as she said from
Sweeney to her husband an .nveIop.
containing $500
! Francis l.. Wrliman conducted tn,
DISCRIMINATION. Mrs. Walsh adj
mittrd having known that her HUSBAND
was collecting protection money an,
that they were living, in part on the
proceeds of graft.
Reina Michel. Capt Waish's Swis!
nurse who was witness at III" liarti
gan trial. testified 10 seeing Sweeney n
, Walsh's home on the night Mrs. walsh
had told about