New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-16
SUICIDES PRAYER
May CLEAR CONVICT
Witness Told Physician
Schwitofsky Was Victim
ofPoIice "Frame-Up.'
FORCED TO TESTIFY
ON THREAT OF RUIN
Prisoners Plea Against 2O.Year
Sentence to Come Before
Parole Board Soon.

IN DR. n. r Nordeman. OF s. West Sth
al the friends OF Alfred Schwitofsky pc
l,eye they have found witness who VIII
do much toward convincing the STATE
Board of Parole that the twenty-year SEN
tsnc. imposed on Scientifically in June.
1911. was the result OF a police frame
up" The Board OF Parole was to nave
started hearings in the Schwitofsky mat
ter next Wednesday In the City Hall. Inc
hearings will probably he postponed as
James A. Delehanty. who was to repre-
sent the District Attorney, is engaged III
the Becker trial.
Dr. Nordeman attended Theodore b.
Dale. whose house, at II West 18th ST.,
Schwitofsky was convicted Of entering
ILLEGALLY. Dale committed suicide March
TO- 1918, after forfeiting his bail on charges
pending against him in Special Sessions.
ct saw Dale about three weeks before
he committed suicide said DIT. Norde-
man Yesterday. HE was in pitlaole
condition and begged me TO do something
for him. The testimony he had gwen
against schwitofsky. whom he declared to
be innocent. was preying on his mind. he
SAID. he tOiu me tHdt nc Hou SSe'
TO sleep for days.
"As 10 his reasons for allowing himself
to become a party to 'frame-up, he SIM
ply told me: 4 was In an aWful nx' Al
though he did not mention any policeman
he led me TO believe that he had been
compelled to testify as he did, and that
he would be ruined II he did not stick to
his story"
Leo Gelsky, who told the police that
schwitofsky was the Dale burglar mas
told Schwitofskys counsel that he was
simply following detectives orders to es-
cane a beating when he gave that In
formation
Another witness for Schwitofsly will be
Bernard n. Sander counsel for Dale. Al
though Mr.. Sander would not discuss the
case Yesterday It is believed that Dale
told him that he had testified falsely In
the burglary case. Certain photographs
of Dale, which are in Mr.. Sanders pos
session, will be subp1naed by Schwitof-
sky's counsel.
Warden Clancy OF Sing Sing and Proba-
ton Officer Crimmins. OF Special Sessions,
are other witnesses who will be subp9-
nsed by counsel for Schwitofsky.
Schwitofsky's case was taken up oy
Jacob Goldstein, rabbi In the Tombs
rrison, and Frank Marshall White,
MAGAZINE writer. Samuel Untermyer and
Mark Eisner. Of the firm Of San & Eisner,
interested themselves in the case. The
Appellate Division has denied an appli-
cation for a new trial which was argued
by Mr.. Untermyer.
After a thorough inquiry, which con-
WINGED him that there was doubt that
schwitofsky's revolver was loaded on the
day the burglary was committed, District
Attorney Whitman recommended TO the
Governor that the ten years imposed Tor
assault in the first degree be taken or
Schwitofsky's sentence.
Governor Glynn accordingly committed
the sentence 10 ten years. Schwitofskys
friends did not relax their efforts, and on
February 10 the Governor directed the
Board of Parole to inquire into the mat
ter. 1t Is asserted that certain officers In
the Police Department had personal
motive in getting Schwitofsky out OF the
v,sy, and that shortly before his arrest a
detective told him that he had better get
out OF town or he would be sent up for
: life.