New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-31

chine and enter the bar of the Getty
House.
At that point Sullivan was sent for,
and while the court awaited ms APP
pearance Mayor James I. Lennon, OF
Yonkers. was sworn IN. lie sara ne
hrst met Sullivan in the warden's Of
ice at Sing Sing and once talked TO
him while the convicted man was seat
cd in an automobile in Getty square,
Yonkers. On that occasion Sullivan
did not wear prison garb, he said. lie
had on either brown or gray sun
In the car at the time. the witness SAID
we're Mccormick, Watson and County
! Clerk Cashin.
Terence 4. Brady, business manager
Of 1.-THE Yonkers Record was called;
As he took the stand Sullivan was led
! into the room. He stood IN view OF all
! for minute. Then he disappeared
| through door, and Brady continued
his testimony. He said he first met
Sullivan IN the automobile about two
weeks ago, few days before The Irib.
une's publication OF the first story 81
/ the convict's Joy rides Coroner
| Dunn was recalled and stated positive
" that the man he saw in the autom0-
| bile was sullivan.
Bank Wrecker Visited Bar.
George Mailing. proprietor OF the
/ Getty House, and his bartender, Enrich
| Schwarzc, testified that they had seen
/ sullivan, hut never recalled his enter
| ing the Getty House bar. Later John
/ II. Mcpherson, of Gonkcrs, said he saw
( Sullivan enter the barroom of the same
! hotel number of times in the com
/ rany of Mccormick and Watson.
/ The most striking story of the morn
[ -, ip.,oIYcaH h,-t ha
/ OF Robert Johnson. chauffeur for Mrs.
| c. II. Buck, OF Yonkers. lie told Of
how he stopped 70 talk to Detective
Ford in front of drug store at Yon-
kers at 10 o'clock one night, when Sui
!ivan came strolling across Getty
! Square. Ford, he said, spoke to the
convict and went around corner with
him. 4 few minutes later he saw Sui
/ livan go TO the opposite side of the
street and enter lunchroom.
lie recognized Sullivan, he said, be-
cause he had seen him from an office
on the square several days prior to
| that night. The convict had been
/ pointed out to him, he said.
! Q.-Was Sullivan alone? Ayes.
/ Q-What time was it then? A
About 10 o'clock.
| Odd you see Mccormick that
night? A.-No.
Q-How was Sullivan dressed? A
/ He wore a gray suit gray sweater with
heavy collar outside or his coat, and
gray cap.
Q-Was there anything in his APP
pearance TO distinguish him from any
citizen? Al thought he was some
prizefghter taking exercise.
Johnson was followed on the witness
stand by Detective Ford. Upon being
: examined the sleuth said he saw Sulli-
van approach the curb. and then shook
hands with him. He wished to find out
what the convict was doing alone in the
town at night, he said. Sullivan, he
avcrred, said the waraen's car, with
some Of McCormick's family in it, was
just around the corner. Ford said he
went with Sullivan to see if the car
was there.
Q. Did Sullivan ask you if you saw
the warden? A.-Yes, sir.
Q. What did you tell him? Al
told him had not seen him.
Q. How long did you talk to Sulli-
van? A. Only few minutes.
Odd you see him again? A
Yes, fifteen minutes later.
Q.-Where? An front of the
Essex lunchroom.
Odd he enter the place? Al
believe so; did not watch, though.
O. Did you see Sullivan again that
night? Ayes, sir.
O. Where? An the IIegeman
drug store.
Q.-What was he doing there? A
Eating ice cream or drinking a soda;
| don't recall.
Q. Who else was there? A-War-
den McCormick's son-in-law, Frederick
Schneider, his wife and myself.
Q.-Did Sullivan treat to ice cream
soda? A-Oh, no. | paid for it, or
else Schneider did.
Q.-Are you sure Sullivan did not
treat? A.-Ies.
That one person saw Sullivan in Yon-
kcrs almost dozen times while drlv-
ing the warden's car and riding as a
passenger; that on several occasions
he went into barrooms after the war
den and his secretary had preceded him
and that Sullivan drove the car for
McCoInick's daughters and Mrs. Nc
Cormick were established by John II.
Mcpherson. who SAID he was at present
OUT of employment. but who was for
merly a voting machine demonstration.
Commissioner Baldwin then adj
journed the session. He announced
that upon reconvening he would sum
mon Superintendent Riley, who was
notified at Albany yesterday to come
TO Sing Sing TO TESTIFY. After
luncheon, however. Superintendent
Riley was not called.
A possible perjury charge for which
the warden might be held to account.
was discovered when james 7. Murray,
of the office Of the Secretary of State,
produced McCormick's application for
an automobile license. Mccormick, in
filing in the blank. asserted that the
machine was owned by Sing SIrg
prison. Under the law an automobile
which is state property is not taxed
for license. On Thursday McCor-
mick declared on the witness stand
that the car was his property.
Michael Lally, the hotelkeeper, testi-
fed that he often had as much as $4,000
in cash in the safe in his office; that he
always kept from $500 to $500 on hand,
because he frequently made loans 20
contractors to make up payrolls that
the same safe always contained a pile
of a. o. US" and checks dated ahead,
and that for fifteen years he had been
lending money that way, and never
kept book record of his transactions.
1t was following a sail up the Hud
son from Yonkers to Sing Sing. he
said, that he told Mccormick he would
lend him money to buy an automobile.
Lally said that was about the middle
of July.
About month later, he asserted
Mccormick came to him and asked if
he could let him have the money. Lally
said he had the sum in cash in his safe,
and passed il to the Warden, in three
$500 bills and five 500 bills. The
transaction was made in the presence