New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-08
GONDORF HELD
WITH OLD FlTZ;
VICTIM IN CELL
AcCuser's Change of Front
and Rumor of Deal
Cause His Detention.
FAILURE TO IDENTIFY
FREES REST OF GANG
Doc" Biegel, Not Connected
with Wiretappers, Held in
S1.500 on Old Charge.

Fearing James O'Reilly, the Toronto
contractor. said 20 have been swindled
out o. $1,000 By Fred Gondorf and
James Fitzgerald. would not appear %
testify against the Two men when they
come 10 trial. Judge Mu,quecn placed
the Canadian in the House Of Detcn-
ton yesterday. O'Rcilly. It was said.
appeared reluctant 70 give testimony
20 the grand jury and almost declared
he would not appear against the de-
PENDANTS. both of whom were indicted.
He was held in 10000 bail
1t is said he is all wrought up over
.he matter and has summoned a lawyer
from Toronto 20 look after his IN
terests. Tie Gondorf gang the rumor
goes. has been trying 20 reach O'Reiily
and persuade him TO abandon the case.
One member OF the coterie is reported
TO have said:
"You 20 back 20 Canada. and then
one Of our men viii see you. II you DO
that you can not only get your $1,000
back. but $500 besides. If you ap-
pear against Us you don't get anything
back"
Gondorf and Fitzgerald were the only
men indicted h. the grand jury.
O'Reilly wa unable to identify any Of
the others the police picked up, so John
alias Dutch Schultz; James W.
RYAN. alias "the Postal KID" and
George Marshal, alias "Kentucky Gen
tleman." were released after arraiSn-
ment in the West Side court before
Magistrate Cornell.
$4,000 Bail for Gondorf
When the alleged wirctappers were
brought before Judge Nuiqucen Their
counsel X. Henry Rosenberg. asked for
a weeks delay. Judge Nulqueen gave
HIM FIVE minutes 20 read the indict-
mcnts, and then Mr. Rosenberg said
the prisoners would plead not guilty.
Gondorf, who was already under $25,-
600 bail with four indictments against
hin. was held in $4,000 bail. and "Old
Fitz." who was already under $500
bail on an old case, in $4,000. Neither
furnished bail ard they were remanded
% the Tombs.
The District Attorneys Office seems
20 think Gondorf will soon be on his
way 10 join his brother Charley in
Sing Sing. as there are now six indict-
ments against Fred for grand larceny
There are two in the O'Reilly case. He
is a'so due for trial on the charge Of
cv indling Duncan Curry. a former Con
'roller of Winnipeg; William +. Davis,
Of Atlantic City. and Georgian whose
Lame has not yet been made public He
vii. be tried tomorrow, probably on
me O'Reilly indictments. The old in
q ctment against Fitzgerald, who will
he tried with Goudorf. Is a charge Of
winding Leslie G. Wharton in a wire
ZANE last January.
The family Of Mrs. r. D. Shymer
who was lost on the Lusitania. was in
Gignant yesterday over the statcmen.
OF the police that she knew Fred Con
dorf and Chris Tracy, wiretapper.
who died last year. They denied hatly
that Mrs Shymer knew the men were
crooks. 4 detective said it was prob
ably true she did not know Tracy as
Tracy, for it has developed that OR.
Walker" who is now dead, first rented
rooms in Mrs Shymer's house. and
Tracy often operated under the name
Of Walker.
l. is now thought that he imposed
,
tor and gave her the recommendation
for "Dr Frcdericks." who rented he
rarlor floor, and is believed 20 be Joe
baton. an olitime crooh What
strengthens this idea is that Tracy
died about the same time rs "Dr.
Walker"
To show how cleverly the doctors
who held clinics" in the Shymer house
staged their game and fooled the occu-
pants of the dwelling the housekeeper
said yesterday that once one Of the
doctors came out Of the room with a
stethoscope hanging from his ears.
doc" Henry BieGel, who was dis
covered In one OF the Shymer houses
and taken 10 headquarters charged
with an old case of grand larceny, was
held In 81 800 bail yesterday. Nothing
whatever has developed 10 connect him
with the Gondorf swindle. The family
of Mrs. Shymer, whom he deceived so
ceverly, said yesterday his room had
been rented TO some one else. They
were naturally annoyed that so much
notoriety had come 20 the house by the
presence Of the crooks who had wormed
in in exactly the same shrewd way
they begin operations in any good
neighborhood