New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07
GRAND JURY READY
FOR GRAFT PROBE
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determined to take no sides IN the
mass Of charges and cross-charges De-
tween Sipp and the police. He was re-
quested by Deputy Commissioner
Dougherty yesterday TO apply Tor
Slips extradition. He sent word back
to the police that if they would pre-
sent what evidence they had against
Sipp he would present 1t to the grand
! jury and ask for an indictment. III
the grand jury votes an indictment on
the evidence, Mr.. Whitman Will lmme-
dately move for Sips eXtraditlon
from New Jersey and prosecute him
on the charges in the indictment.
In the afIidavits on the basis OF
which the police ordered Sips arrest
he is charged with violation OF sec
ton $50 of the Penal Law. Martina
Miller. who is thirty-two years old,
and at present an inmate Of the New
! York Magdalen Benevolent Society
! Home at Bolton Road and Dyckman
! street. and Georgiana Risnger, twenty
! five. of No. 100 East 122d street, are
: subscribers TO the affidavits, which
! specify that the crime was committed
I about the middle of July, 1911. In a
| hotel at Park avenue and 124th street.
The penalty for violation Of Section 69o
is mot more than twenty years i'm
| prisonment"
Their evidence and whatever cor
roborating testimony the police can
produce will be presented TO the grand
! jury tomorrow. and extradition Will
! follow If an indictment Is voted. III
the grand jury refuses 10 indict Mr..
( Whitman will have no course but 10
notify the Atlantic City authorities,
after which Sipp would probably be
! discharged from custody. II such a
result should eventuate, IT is certain
the grand jury would Immediately in
| quire into the origin of the charges
against Sipp. and place the RESPONSE
| bility for the ''frame-up."
Will PROBE SchIacht Assault.
The case Of Harry II. Schlacht. which
will also come before the grand jury,
presents another phase Of alleged po-
! lice intimidation. Schlacht was a pro-
spective witness before the aldermanic
committee. and. according 10 his story.
was brutally assaulted and robbed Of
some NJ his evidence Immediately after
| he had conferred with Emory II. Buck
ner. the committees counsel. last Fri
! day. Schlacht was TO have testified as
10 police graft on East Side pedlers.
subject which he had previously inves-
! tigated. and his charge that he was
assaulted TO prevent him from putting
/ his evidence before the committee will
receive the careful attention Of the
grand jury.
Henry II. Curran, chairman OF the
aldermanic police investigating COM
mittce while admitting that the COM
mittee had no further use for Sipp.
having gained from him the story Of
police graft methods with reference 10
Raines law hotels. pointed out yester-
day that the records OF the general
graft inquiry showed that some sudden
trouble seemed 10 pursue every witness
who gave convincing testimony before
the aldermen OF police graft methods.
He pointed out that Lieutenant John
+. Stanton had scarcely finished his
testimony on the witness stand before
Detective oliver. the chauffeur for
Commissioner waldo, who was made a
first grade detective, suddenly recalled
an alleged story of grating on Stan
tons part about which he had been
| bravely keeping silent for two years
Mrs. Mary Goode had no sooner told
her startling story Of police graft on
the social evil to the aldermen than the
/ police began TO hound her TO such Il
/ degree that she was forced 10 go into
| hiding for her own protection. Sipp
| followed, and In his case. as il more
afraid Of what he might tell than they
had been OF any OF the others, "A sud
den and surprising police campaign
began, based on alleged crimes that
were said TO have been committed more
than a wear and half ago.
The fact that Sipp ran his dlsor-
DERBY hotel for twelve years without
ever running counter to the police ap-
parently presented no incongrulty to
the police mind when compared with
the surprising ability to trace crime
they developed only when Sipp became
a police accuser.
Sipp Target for Police.
David NJ Neuberger who was attor-
ney for Lieutenant Stanton, commented
upon the fact that the police stool
pigeon, the criminal who brings them
news OF crime, Is usually handled with
the greatest care by the police. Such
informers constitute the backbone of
the detective business I'm the New
York Police Department, Neuberger as
serted. but when Sipp brought word OF
crime, because 1T was crime within the
department ne immediately became a