New-York tribune., 1914-11-12
Miss Burkhardt at Hobo
ken with Woman, Hotel
Clerk Says.
BANKER VISITED BY
WIFE AT PRISON
She Saw Him While. Slcuths
Were Seeking Her-NcW Facts
Expected O.day.

Miss Louise d. Burkhardt, David y.
Sullivan's former secretary and bust
ness agent. and Charles Jonas. clerk
at Myers Hotel. Hoboken, and George
Deeley, principal keeper at Sing sing,
were the most important witnesses yes
terday at the inquiry by the Kings
County grand jury. The probe is 10
determine whether Sullivan, since his
commitment to Sing Sing, used the lib
erty allowed him by former Warden
Mccormick to commit further larceny
Of Union Bank funds.
From Jonas District Attorney Crop
sey learned that ,lss Burkhardt
was the woman who registered at the
Ioboken hostlcry ON October %. under
tn name O. "Mlss Burke" He de-
scribed the older woman who accom-
panied Miss Burkhardt and who wrote
her name on the hotel register as Mrs.
Burke" a. tsllying closely with Mrs.
Sullivan, the bank wrecker's wife.
The hotel clerk said he saw them fire.
quently during their stay at the hotel.
A telephone message came for Miss
Burke" when the women were out. he
declared, and the person at the other
end of the wire, upon being Informed
of her absence, said. "Tell her Ed
called her up
While the women were in the dining
hon u
TO remark:
Ed says this is not as bad as IL
might be-
It was learned definitely that the
women left the hotel at Hoboken on
October 80 and went 70 Newark. II Is
regarded as more than "a coincident tnat
OF the day following Thomas j. McCor-
mick. the depOseG Sing Sing warden,
was seen H. that city.
Girl on Grill for Hour.
Miss Burkhardt was on the stand
more than an hour and she will be re-
called to-day. She has been counted
upon as one of the vital witnesses IN
the investigation, and upon her testl-
mony largely depends the result II
she confirms or supplements some OF
the evidence already IN the District At
torney's hands there .nay be more than
one Indictment for larceny and con
spiracy growing out 81 the inquiry.
An anonymous letter. evidently from
q former convict. was given out by
Cropsey last night. - was posted lu
New York and read:
when you get hold OF Mccormick
Won might ask him about Cummings
and the other fayOrites who are sent
out into the country 10 pick apples
l.. 70, fVIanL- DHTHun.
other odd joos.
ole may tell YOU the farmer was
sick"
The District Attorney has yet 10 get
hold Of Mccormick. The Kings County
sleuths are bafied. tI November O..
while they were searching for Mrs.
Sullivan. She visited her husband al
the prison. it was learned yesterday.
According 10 Mr. Cropsey, he OBJ
.ained yesterday a mortgage for $1,000
made by the Russell Dairy Lunch Com
pany, Of 332 Livingston ST.. Brooklyn,
10 Mrs. Allen Tompkirs. wife OF the
late Edward 3. Tompkins, 2 director
Il the Union Bank. and transferred 20
Mrs. Anna F. Sullivan. Sullivan was
the executor Of the Tompkins estate,
of which he fied an accounting OF S2o.
The estate was previously thought 20
be in the neighborhood Of Sl,000000.
The District Attorney was asked If
he intended that as an animation that
Sullivan. since his incarceration al
Sing Sing, had defrauded the Tompkins
estate as well as the Union Bank.
ooh. no. Il merely shows that Mr..
| Sullivan has q lot of money and that
we are onstautiy running across evi-
dences of the fact in our search Tor
/ Union Bank assets
Convict to Tell All.
John Conway the convict. formerly
/ Of Sing Sing and later transferred 10
Auburn, viii be brought back TO the
Ossining prison tonight in order tina.
he may be examined by District Attor-
nev Cropscy in regard 20 what he
4 Knows of special privileges shown Sui
livan. Conway wrote 70 the District
Attorney. offering to tell all he knew OF
the former bankers privileges and TO
give additional information regarding
;he Tammany ring control OF the
prison
The identity Of the person who
warned Miss Burkhardt and Mrs. Sulli-
van that an investigation was about 10
BEGIN and that they would be safe out
-!de Of the state has not been disclosed
bv the District Attorney. Principal
Keeper George Deeley, Of Sing Sing
VINO was a witness yesterday. proteSsed
ignorance o. the telephone messages.
Sullivan will not be moved from Sing
Sing prison 20 COmstock prison. ac-
corGing TO keepers, until the investiga-
ton Of his 10y rides with former War
den Mccormick is completed.