New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-20
District Attorney CropSey
Will Call OH Warden for
Truth of Auto Story.
WOULD ASK STATE
TO START PROBE
Kings County Prosecutor reefs
That He Has No JuriSdic-
ton in Case.

Intense IMAGINATION was V-,P-
last night at meeting Of the Union
Bank depositors' committee when the
chairman. J. E. Rohrer, of 4l0 Feni-
mora st.. Brooklyn. called to the at
tention of the committee the fact ex-
po.ed BY The Tribune, that Bank
Wrecker David A. Sullivan was &C
corded unusual privileges st Sing Sing.
The meeting Of the depositOrs' COM
mittee was held in Room POS, in the
Clarendon Hotel, and the chief speaker
WAS Assistant District Attorney Gold
stein. of Kings County.
Earlier in the day District Attorney
Cropsey had said TO reporter for The
Tribune that, although he was much
interested in the disclosures of Mr.
SuIIivan's automobile rides, he felt
that he had no jurisdiction over the
1T is Clearly a case for the State
Prisons Department TO deal with,
said Mr. Cropsey.
Certainly, an infringement of the
regulations and rules Of that depart
Inent has been committed II Mr.. SUM-
van has been allowed these unusual
privileges, but l do not know that any
crime has been committed.
Cropsey May Demand Proof.
az feel. however. that am justified
In sending a letter of inquiry to War
den Mccormick. and, if he does not
prove these stories 70 be false, l have
also a right to call upon the state su-
thorities TO investigate.
Mr.. Goldstein, who conducted the
case of the Union Bank deposltors
against Sullivan, was even more en-
phatic at the meeting of the depositors'
committee, which was held TO urge
upon the candidates for Assembly and
Senate the necessity for the passage
of the so-called Union Bank bill.
This bill is intended 10 reimburse
the depositors for their losses in the
bank. As Mr.. Goldstein explained, the
Union Bank was closed in January,
1908 and was reopened the following
August, despite the fact that the state
Banking Department realized that the
bank was undoubtedly insolvent:
an view of the evidence in the pos
session Of the state banking suthori-
ties" said Mr.. Goldstein, at is a
grave question whether or not these
authorities had any right to permit
the opening of the institution.
"The so-cslled Union Bank bill pro
vides simply for the review of the evi-
dence in this case by the Board OF
Claims. In the event that right Of
action is found, then the depositors will
have a case in civil Law against the
state.
at is most important not only to the
depositors but to the public at large TO
ascertain whether or not the nocturnal
! &TrIl n
have really taken place. In the event
that such incidents in the prison life
of this convicted bank official are mat
ters Of common knowledge, then GER
tainly this committee Of depositors has
& right to demand by whose authority
such unusual rights were granted 70
this convict in preference TO his TEL
lows.
"There should be no discrimination
in his favor, and if it can be shown that
any such discrimination has been
shown to him, then this committee OF
depositors and the District Attorney
Office have the right to lay the facts
before the Board of Parole
Should Serve Sentence.
Sullivan was sentenced to serve an
indeterminate sentence OF two years as
q minimum or four years and four
months as a maximum. If 1t IS true
that prison regulations have been vlo-
lated IN his favor, then II is properly
within the rights of this committee OF
dcpositors to bring the case before the
state Board Of Parole and insist that
the convict in question shall serve has
maximum term OF imprisonment with
ont the interference OF the Parole
Board"
E. Rohrer, chairman Of the execu
tive committee Of the Union Bank de
positors, said that the principal obJec
Of the committee was TO determine
whether or not the state should be helt
responsible 10 the depositors for th'
loss they have sustained, due to thu
negligence and misconduct of the Bank
Ing Department in permitting the UnioI
Bank to reopen in 1908. He added;
sit is a matter o. common interes
for the defrauded depositors TO know
whether or not the chief agent IN thei
losses and the reputed wrecker of tn
bank was being permitted to rid'
around the country as though SEQ
free" II such conduct was permitted
him, he said, then the depositors had 1
right 10 demand an investigation.
Sullivan spent all of yesterday a
clerical work in Sing Sing, and E465l
fne mysterious huNO0ODllt III WHICH III
has toured Westchester with WardeT
Mccormick, didn't burn up man!
roads. The warden, disturbed by Thu
Tribune's story of the life of case th'
Brooklyn bank wrecker was leading a
his penal institution, denied himsel'
20 all inouirers whom he suspected o.
being interested in the movements o.
tho machine.
The Secretary Of States Office il
Albany took up the matter yesterday
and learned over the long distance
telephone from the New York Office, al
opt West 74th ST., that Mccormick, a:
agent and warden Of Sing Sing, pre-
sented an affidavit September fol
an automobile license and got E465i
which is exempt from payment.
Almost all Of Westchester COUNTY
remembered yesterday that the car had
been seen many times with the stylish
~ dressed Sullivan in The back seat
and the warden at the wheel John J.
Sinnotj. supervisor Of the town OF
Mount Pleasant. however. denied en-
phst;cally that sullivan was with the
warden when Governor Glynn visited
Ossinirg THURSDAY.
Sinnott insisted hat most OF the
time Mccormick gsed car belonging
to Michael j. Walsh. Democratic lead