New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-21
Solomon Says Jameson
Case Is Frame-Up and
That He Will Confess.
WAS LUCKY" GETTING
FRIENDS ON JURIES
Got Salary from Detectives for
Feeling Out Witnesses In
Accident Cases.

Milton Solomon. OF 70 Bank ST.. who
was arrested last Wednesday with George
Jameson on a charge OF jury fixing, adj
mitteG yesterday having committed FOR
se,.,. bot denied all guilt Of the offence
with which he is charged. Solomon puts
the entire blame on the detectives. VINO
he says, framed him up, and declares
that he will see Assistant District Attor-
new O'Malley tomorrow and make
frank statement of the whole affair.
Last April I. the day Of the election
on the constitutional amendment sang
Solomon. II had been drinking and
boasted about being able to get men On
the Jury. That was when / met j; iraeson'
Previous 10 that time had put four men
on juries. They were all personal friends
OF mine and they wanted the easy sratt
of 50 q day. When they came to me ana
said they would like to get on told them
Sure. I'll help you and then ] wrote 10
the Commissioner OF Jurors and signed
their names to the letters. II might nave
been wrong, but I can't deny that | did
IT,"
Solomon then told how he had been IN
troduced to William II. Houghton, Inc
private detective who brought about the
arrests, by chauffeur named Curran'
According 10 Solomon's story, Houghton
posed as a detective in the employ OF the
New York Railways Company.
He told me that his company had lot
of big cases coming up all OF the time
and ne got me TO sit around in the court
room and talk with the witnesses and
find out what they were going TO TESTIFY
to- Houghton said that his company mao
a way of fixing the witnesses by getting
them drunk and shipping them out west.
soon after that he asked me II l
couldn get some men on the jury Tor
him. and ne sent me three names. oniy
got two OF them on, because l was AFRAID
that they might recognize my handWrit-
ing IL sent in three letters. For sitting
around and talking with the witnesses
Houghton was TO pay me N5 week.
told my wife and all my friends that
had an easy job
Were you to mngle with the jurorsT'
he was asked.
mo. Houghton asked me IL could get
a couple of men assigned to jury duty IN
Part II OF the Supreme Court, and l told
him that / could. l was lying to him.
That was what was doing all the time-l
was double-crossing him. I told him that
I had the men assigned as he asked, but
didn't do It."
Solomon said that after $50 salary was
due him from Houghton he became I'M
| patient and asked to be paid. Houghton.
he says, paid him SIS and arranged TO
meet him In saloon in Nassau ST. that
evening and pay him the remaining 40
81 paid two men to follow me to the
saloon" he continued, because | had
bunch that 1 was gong to be beaten up
! When we got to the saloon stood at one
! end of the bar with a man by the name
! OF Gordon-he was a detective-and jaime
son stood at the other end with Housh-
| ton. Houghton came up to me and asked
me IL Jameson was all right. told MIN
| that he was, and then / heard him say
| something about fixing Jameson, but
didn't pay any attention TO II, as IL WASH
any business OF mine. Jameson told me
that they were trying TO give him some
money, and he couldn't see any reason
why he shouldn't take 1t. Then they gave
me the money that was coming to me
/ Two more detectives. who were posing as
DRINKS, came up and asked me what
had in my pocket. told them, and Their
they pinched me"
According to Walter s. Kennedy, attor'
ney for the two men, Jameson intends tc
change his plea TO guilty following the
confession ne made Friday to Assistant
! District Attorney O'Malley.