New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-15
Father Farrell's Lawyer
Threatens to Begin
Counter Action.
PROSECUTOR TO GIVE
EACH SIDE IT'S INNING
Announces Himself Ready to
Proceed Against William
J. Burns.

The telephone eavesdroppers at 20
lice Headquarters and those ecclesias-
tics whose wires they tapped in fur
therance of the charities investigation
will in all likelihood be jointly invcs-
tiguted by District Attorney Swami
within the next few days.
One side of the case the administra-
ton side already has been sent on to
the Criminal Courts Building. IL went
there yesterday, inclosed in a letter
from Mayor Mitchell to Judge Swami.
As he received the record the prose-
cutor announced that Alfred j. Talley,
one OF whose clients is Father William
b. Farrell, had signifcd his intention
Of beginning counter action reaching
up to the Mayors office.
Mr.. Talley said his clients were not
satisfied with the action of the Brook
Ign grand jury, which went no further
than the indictment OF William IL.
Hotchkiss, Special Assistant Corpora
ton Counsel, and John A. Kngsbury,
the Charities Commissioner
Swami in No Hurry.
"a don't intend to rush this matter
to the grand jury" was Judge Swann's
comment. at will take some time TO go
over the record submitted by Mayor
Mitchell. II ! decide TO act both parties
will get their inning"
1. Sod 10 L. rt,..c
torney contemplated q John Doe inves-
tigation.
While the Mayor called the District
Attorneys attention 10 the fact that
two persons referred to i'm the evidence
were priests of the Catholic Church, he
did not mention their names. Through
what he termed mistaken institutional
zeal" the Mayor said, they had evolved
a situation touching basic principle
of American life-the reciprocal non
interference of church and state"
lnclosed in the Mayors letter was
one sent to him by Police Commits
sioner Woods with the record. The
Commissioner said he had been ad-
vsed by the Corporation Counsel that
his evidence showed four crimes had
been committed in the county-per-
jury, conspiracy to publish a criminal
libel. criminal libel and conspiracy to
obstruct justice.
Ready TO Proceed Against Burns.
After Chief Magistrate McAdoo had
advised him that, in his opinion, a
crime had been committed and Fred
erick Seymour had promised TO appear
this morning and sign a complaint
Judge Swami announced he was ready
TO proceed against William J. Burns.
Arrangements have been made for
Burns's arraignment to-day before
Magistrate McAdoo, who will hold him
in nominal bail for trial In Special Ses-
sons under Section 553 Of the penal law.
The Thompson committee also spent
part of the day with the wire-tappers.
Deputy Police Commissioner Cooley ap-
Feared before the committee TO answer
the charge that the telephones Of labor
unions have been illegally tapped.
Peter J. Brady. secretary of the Allied
Printing Trades Council. author of the
labor charges, and John T. Workman,
president of Bookbinders' Union %,
also were present. The latter asserts
that eight plainclothes men have taken
the place Of private detectives en-
gagged to interfere with pickets on
strike duty.
When Mr.. Cooley was asked about
the tapping of wires running into the
headquarters Of the International
Ladies' Garment Workers, in Union
Square, he read a list of nine men ar
rested on charges ranging from riot to
murder-all, he said, the legitimate
fruit Of overlapping. Brady called his
attention to the fact that the nine were
members of the Amalgamated Garment
Workers, an organization not affiliated
with the international.