New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-18
Sullivan, Union Bank
Wrecker, Has Official
Chauffeur, Is Report.
NO APPROPRIATION
FOR AUTO RECORDED
Prison Belief Is That Costly
Motor Was a Gift
from Convict.
HOLD SENTENCE is
SERVED IN OPEN AIR
WeStcheSter Wonders What
Would Happen if Driver Were
Arrested for Speeding.

Would Happen if Driver Were
Arrested for Speeding.
SO firmly rooted is the conviction in
Westchester County that David A. Sui
livan. convicted in January. 1918. as
one OF the wreckers Of the Union Bank
of Brooklyn is the man who rides
around in large touring car with
Warden Mccormick of Sing Sing az
his chauffeur. that when the warden
was asked at Glynn political meet
ing Friday night if Sullivan was with
him he only smiled and said
"No, not tonight"
Sullivan got sentence Of two years,
and apparently the term has been an
easy one for him. The former warden.
Clancy, used him as clerk of the prison
court, and because he was an expert
stenographer he got many jobs thai
were easier than breaking stone.
1t is said there is always a shortage
of intelligent men in Sing Sing, and
the appearance of one who can be OF
any assistance in the clerical depart
ments is hailed with delight by the
warden.
For a month Westchester County
has been whispering that while many
Brooklyn depOsitiors of wrecked
bank were suffering for necessaries,
which the money they lost would have
provided for them. one of the wreck
ers was enjoying the autumn weather
in a fine, new touring car,
1t was said that his term was almost
over. and that he was probably pre-
pairing for the leisure he would be
able then TO enjoy.
Others went even further and inti-
mated that he had plenty of money
"salted away"
All these strings of gossip get back
/ somehow to Sullivan lie is a Brook
! lyn bank wrecker. Despite his denials,
a jury said so. and judge put him in
/ jail to eXpiate his crime. That was be-
/ fore Mccormick was taken from his
/ plumbing and steam fitting business in
I Tuckahoe and made Warden of Sing
/ Sing by Michael J. Walsh, Democratic
boss Of Yonkers and Deputy State Con-
/ troller
Sentence Nears End.
! To carry the analogy further. Sulli
vans sentence is nearly at an end-and
report has it that whatever the fate OF
/ the depositOrs of the busted" bank
/ David A. Sullivan will have no financial
worries in the future, unless court ac-
tions TO make him disgorge are sue
cessful
Back in June State Banking De-
partnent official estimated that Sulli-
vans share of the loot from the Union
Bank was Sl,000,000, but Westchester
gossips have repeated the figures so
many times since the new touring car
has appeared on the county roads that
the total has risen to $2,00O,O0O
The department charged that Sulli-
van was realizing on his stolen paper
while acting as a confidential man to
the warden. This was promptly denied
at Sing Sing, and alleged use of the
prison telephone for his private bust
ness was held to have been impossible
Regarding the mysterious automobile
Inquiries have been made at Albany in
the Office of the State Superintendent
of Prisons The answer has been that
4 Mccormick didn't have the money TO
buy a machine. at least by state appro-
priation. and knowledge Of his financial
affairs when he got his $4,000 job as
warden on July / increase the belief
that the car wasn't paid for by him.
. Clancy is authority for the statement
that when he left Office there was no
money for improving the sanitary con-
dtion Of the prison, providing fire pre-
vention and the like, much less for the
purchase of a Joy riding machine.
Hence, Westchester, which hasn't a
L.. 81 L,t C.,1i Al.
man who lolls in the tonneau, while
the warden runs the car, believes that
the former banker is the actual owner
of the automobile. The number, as al
most any one can tell is E465l Ac-
cording to the police records. the IL
cense is ascribed 10 State of New York
Commissioner of Prisons. 354 Hunter
av., Ossining, n. Y. The address given
is that of Sing Sing prison.
Summer Resort Costume.
Usually, when a prisoner goes out
side for any purpose, he is clad in a
dark gray regulation suit, prescribed
for such use. The alleged Sullivan's
attire has been that of summer re-
sciter, light gray being the prevailing
color.
Once. it is said Sullivan was at the
wheel, instead of the accommodating
Mccormick This occasion, Westches-
ter likes to tell the curious, was when
three women were the guests of thr
driver and supposed owner. Observer:
hold that even the warden baked a,
beng member of a mixed party.
At the Getty House. III Yonkers. a
favorite rendezvous for politicians
Sullivan is said to be frequent Wis
tor Men who say they would recog
ize him anywhere will aver without
question that he has often been seen
standing alone on the curb near the
entrance TO the bar and occasionally
has strayed unaccompanied some dis
tance from the hotel.
Everything Westchester takes for
granted so far-but what will happen
If the banker is arrested for speeding
some time, or runs over some pedes-
trian? Even the cOunty's present ex-
tensive imagination cannot picture tn
result. Automobile owners know tina,
one of the questions asked an appli-
cant for a chautFcur's license is, "Have
YOU ever been arrested? And If by
chance a man who has been convicted
of crime and is serving time should be
| arrested what then?
WestchestSr is curious TO know.