New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-08
Cropsey Finds Names BE-
lieved Those of Her and
Sullivan'S Wife.
BEGINS INVESTIGATION
OF MCCORMICK CASH
Another Workers POlitI-
clan Made Deposit Day
Auto Was Bought.

20 David A. Sullivan. the Union Bank
urecker. and also the disappearance OF
Sullivan's wife, both following Inc
Tribune's disclosures Of Sullivan's Joy
rides was in q measure explained yes
terday. when District Attorney Cropsey
found out almost certainly that ooth
,be women lived at Meyers Hotel, IN
Hoboken, from October 25 until DC
tober so.
The Identification was not absolutely
complete. but practically so, FOR the
two women who lived at the hotel &C
cu-ately fitted the descriptions OF Miss
Burkhardt and Mrs. Sullivan, for both
Of whom process servers have been dill
gently seeking.
The District Attorney is also search
ing for Thomas J. Mccormick, the de-
posed warden, who has Joined the mics
ing.
The two women arrived at Meyers
Hotel at $40 p. m. on October rs. This
was Sunday evening, and District At
torney Cropsey is particularly inter
ested in the speed with which Miss
Burkhardt arrived in Hoboken. The
day before Mr.. Goldstein had spent
most Of the afternoon st Sing Sing, and
went 70 Yonkers that night 70 try to
see Miss Burkhsrdt 1t was said she
was not al home.
Both women carried only handbags
when they reached the Hoboken MOTEL
where they registered SIS Mrs. l. Burke
and Miss Burke, both OF Asbury Park.
They were assigned TO Room SO, and re-
manned at the hotel until the next FRI
day, when they departed, without CIV
ing an intimstion OF their destination
II 10 thought, however. that they went
IN another place in New Jersey. The
nsre in the hotel register has been
photographed, and will De produced pc
FORE the grand jury tomorrow, so tnst
the signatures may be compared with
the handwriting of Miss Burkhardt and
Mrs. Sullivan.
Mr.. Cropsey is interested in sscer-
tanning where the money for Miss
Burkhsrdt's expenses comes from. She /
has practically had no employment
since Sullivan went cup the river so
IL is said, and at that time the CONVEX
banker declared his assets CONSISTED
of cheap watch and the clothes ne
wore.
That Sullivan was again out Of Sing
Sing and in Brooklyn on an entirely
different occasion from the one on I
which Harry Meyersohn said he saw
the banker. was something Mr.. Cropsey
started out 70 investigate yesterday.
The District Attorney has not yet OF
tanned definite information that Sull- .
van was out of the prison az this time,
hut he will soon summon several men
who can tell something about the cir
cumstance, if it did occur. !
Just as Mr.. Cropsey wishes 70 mo
out who paid Miss Burkhsrdts eH-
nenses. 90 he wants 10 find out where
the missing former Warden McCormlGss
bsd found the money TO keep himself
and his family since his disappearance.
WcCorrick left Yonkers with his wife,
three daughters and son-in-law, Fred
SNYDER. and process servers have been
unable to find him anywhere. He
closed up his house, at IS Leighton sv,
but William J. Watson, his former sec
rotary at the prison, is now running
McCormick's plumbing business, az
Wells av. Yesterday watson ore"
money from the bank and paid of en-
ployes.
McCormick's books will be brought
+o the grand Jury tomorrow kxami-
nation Of them already shows he had
little money banked. He went through
an experience in the bankruptcy court
not long ago, and Snyder, who was in
the automobile business, also met with
reverses Mccormick did not take the
famous automobile, as has been stated
when he went away. IL IS still az sing
Sing. No one thinks Mccormick would
have been so foolish as TO take such
chance, as both the license number and
81 the engine number Of the machine are
y recorded.
Where Michael J. Lally, the Yonkers
saloonkeeper, got the $1,000 to loan
Mccormick for the automobile is still
a subjec. of inquiry. The District At
.orney has found that another man In
Yonkers who is associated with the DO
ltjcal ring in which Mccormick figured
deposited the same amount Of money
in bank on the very day on which
Lally made his loan.
IL was learned that some months ago
Sullivan wrote q letter to Mr.. Cropsey
saving he knew Of way IN which the
Union Bank depositors could get their
money back. His letter was promptly
answered, and he was asked for his in
formation on how 10 proceed, but he
did not reply. Yesterday there was an
other rumor that he would be willing
10 turn over what papers he had TO the
District Attorney, but il is not likely
that Mr.. Cropsey would receive any
statement unless IL came in written
form.
The bank depositors don't want 70
treat with Sullivan, anyway. They want
20 leave the matter TO the courts, and
say they may indict him for grand lar
ceny if il can be found he Appropriated
mortgages after the date Of the theft
for which he was convicted.
PAYMENTS on bonds and mortgages
known 10 be held by Sullivan or his
agents, but believed TO be the property
OF the Union Bank, were stopped by
Assistant District Attorney Louis
Goldstein, who is also counsel for the
depositors. Mr.. Goldstein is drafting
a bill 10 be introduced in the Legis
Iature putting the Union Bank case be-
fore the Board of Claims. The de-
positors say that rs the Banking De-
nartment allowed the bank to reopen
when IL was in such condition the
etatc should pay the 100000 losses
and take over the assets in return.
Frank II. Grether, head of the COM
mitteo appointed by the depositors TO
investigate what Superintendent Riley
Of the Prisons Department knew about
cpIliven's extraordinary privileges,
said he was going TO confer last night
With John c. Baur. Louis Franseke ana
DIR. ]. Ellis Rohrer, the other members
~ The committee, 10 map out their pre-
liminary work.
~ ,yho will apDear before the