The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-28
TWO CONFESS PART
IN MEAT BRIBERY
Some Of Suspended Inspectors
Found in Possession Of
Queer Riches.
STILL SEEK TWO BRIBERS

With ten slaughter house proprietors
under arrest for bribing Health Depart
ment inspectors TO stamp inspected and
Passed" on beef from diseased cattle,
the eleventh for whom a warrant was
issued has promised. through his al
torney. to surrender himself tomorrow
morning. The twelfth man accused OF
bribery has not been found. He IL a
contractor who has done repair work on
the slaughter houses In Johnson avenue.
Brooklyn. and is alleged to have served
as a 60 between for the butchers and
the inspectors.
Two men. a butcher and an inspector. |
have confessed TO Commissioner Of Ac-
counts Walistein. Intent on getting more
corroborative testimony to use in court
the Commissioner began at 8 o'clock last
night the examination Of other inspectors
In his office in the Municipal Building
He said the result Of the questioning
was satisfactory.
Finds I~nspectors' Purses Full.
Meanwhile Health Commissioned Eme--
son has been looking into the personal
affairs Of the eight inspectors whom he
has suspended from duty. Their sal
aries from the city are 1890 a year
one Of them owns an $4,000 house and
n $4,000 automobile. Another pays $500
rental for a summer home near the sea-
shore. 4 third Inspector has bought
$1,000 worth OF real estate in the past
two and a half years. A fourth is send
ing his son through a university not
celebrated as a poor mans college
Commissioner walls,ein said yesterday
that certain butchers now suspected of
corrup,ing the city's inspectors and sell
ing forbidden meat throughout the city
boosted before the exposure that political
pull made them immune from punish
ment. They told inspectors to whom
they gave money that they need ave
no fear. as the courts would not find
them guilty II they happened TO be
caught. sir. Walls;ein was asked why
none OF the inspectors had been ar
rested. He replied
Our efforts were concentrated on get
ting evidence against the bride giNers
We were after the big fellows. II We
la laid stress on getting evidence
against inspectors they might have lost
their jobs. but another group Of iDspec-
tors OF the same type might take their
places eventually and the rottenness
would continue. II We put, the bride
givers. the wealthy and influential
slaughter house proprietors where they
came, a., p,isrhi.g fnr "A uhila than "a.
cut out the core OF the evil"
Promises Surprising Disclosure.
The Commissioner said he would make
his report to Mayor Mitchell on Tues
day and hat II would contain a lot
of surprising Information about the
traffic IN foul beef that could not be
made public until then.
In outlining the situation Mr.. Wall.
srein said that the butchers favored the
ice boxes OF their esta as SAT.
places In which to decker with and pay
of the bribe taking inspectors. Tn
Is borne out by one OF the afhdav!is
made by Frederick W. ~Schoneweg. the
Health Department veterinarian who
directed by Philip A. Johann OF IN.
Commissioner OF Accounts office. wen
from slaughter house to slaughter hous,
as an inspector and got most of tn,
evidence.
Schoneweg says hat on March 8, a
the slaughter house OF Strauss. Sch!cl
4 Fe.nberg, Robert Plaut and I'hiliI
Strauss got together in the refrigerato,
and had "A little talk. When Strauss
emerged r!aut called the veterinary de
tective into the chilly room and said
according 10 SChoneweg 1T will -
SIS o r 500 here. VIII that he a.
right"
We'll, I suppose So" ~schoneweg re-
piled.
shall I collect Il for you aske,
Plaut. according to the AFFIDAVIT.
says "~Collector'' Was Paid.
Schoneweg says no replied that IN
money must be paid to his collector,
> James Callahan twho was really WI.
liam H.. Boyle. special examiner 10
Commissioner Wallstein). and his wa
! done, although some Of the butchers oh
, jected TO having a third mar In III
game.
I On March Schoneweg got aroun
to the slaughter house OF II. Braun
schweig at 32l johnson avenue. Their
I he encountered the repair c~ontracto
who has not Yet been arrested.
s You ought to set wise to the IA,
that YOU can make a little bit on III
3 side" ~Schoneweg quotes tho contractc
'what do you meanr' schonewe
countered.
: Don't he foolish was tho 20 h,
tWeen's answer. according to the an
davit. You know what ] mean. Ever,
d body IL getting it,
An hour later the two men met behir
the tool house. where the 60 betwee
d paid ~Schoneweg $50, saying:
Il Now. be easy on Braunschweig an
treat him right"
In another affldavit these remarks a.
:? attributed by Schoneweg to the butch,
Il who Is to give himself up tomorrow
II only kill sixty or seventy COW
week. and they are nearly all dali
cows. so ] don't have many bad one
But OF course IL you ooh you can fir
= something. but you mustn't look. II
inspector has got TO have something. /
N has to live too. ! will buy q skinny OF
that you can condemn whether there
4. anything wrong with It or not. so tn
NJ you make a showing. l will take ca
Of you"
Police watch Slaughter Houses
2, This butcher, the aHRdavit says, pa
70 Collector Callahan" S25. which was
III 20 to S~choneweg. and said to Schonew ",
Is you will get the same every week.
m The Ave slaughter houses whose
censes have been revoked were guard
~ yesterday by policemen, who saw to
n. that no cattle wera killed.
1t was said at the Commissioner
ne Accounts Office yesterday that Arth
I'd Plaut OF sos Eastern Parkway. Broo
na lyn. one of the men arrested on Frida