New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-20
Clerk ConfeSSeS Perjury
IN O'Neill DiSbarment
Proceedings
PLEA OF MOTHER
LED TO ADMISSION
awyers Deny That They
Scared Him Into Making
False Statement

charlie. +. Fox. "a CLERK IN tho law
s.,,r.~crt Of tho New York. New
u.yer & Hartford Railroad, asserted in
affidavit flcd yesterday with the APP
.r..c Division that railroad sttor-
.,rs had frightened him into commit
...r rcrary in an effort to obtain the
t.bsr~,rt of Thomas J. O'Ncill
oNrI su attorney of 500 Broadway.
40. obtained vcrdlcts in damage suits
.-,,-.t ttc road aCgrcgating more than
,5oo 600. sad has frequently proclaimed
cha, ,s purpose in instituting prosocu-
..ors against his clients or clerks was
70 d,sbar him.
r8rar r. Bracket. O'Nciirs counsel,
rs3 Oh, affidavit I'm support of a mo-
..,r 10 dismiss the charges brought
..air.. O'Nciu by the Bar Association.
necis,on ON the motion was reserved.
aNr Charles " Shesfe, said Fox in
ys affidavit. "vas the one who always
ken. urging me 20 lie and put my testi-
~orv ur 20 Mr.. O'Ncill personally, and
30 know I was 10 swear TO this lie and
.r-ss me- 90 DO IT, Sheafe said that
No had been after Mr.. O'Neill for years
and -rst II would swear 20 these
things ,bc railroad company would dis
bar Nr 0NeilL'
SAYS Lawyers Threatened Him
roy asserts that John NJ. Gibbons
and Joseph Sweeney joined Mr.. Sheafe
an are LAWYERS for the New Haven
s., threats 90 prosecute him unless he
.wo-c 20 the charges. lie declares
ina, he refused to testify before eN-
Justice John j. freedman. the referee
in the case. and that Mr. Sheafe had
.ser repeatca his threat of prosecu-
zion and extended ii promise Of pro
.srtior II be gave the testimony.
Foy's charges included the acCusa-
..cr that O'Nciu had promised him $40
. week n he would place his damage
s,i- against the railroad in O'Neill's
hand, and transfer the suit from Con
rec.icu, 90 Westminster County, New
York Another charge which was made
bv Fox and withdrawn, Mr.. O'Neill said.
bv tre Bar Association. was that
ONeiIl had demanded money from Fox
so fz Judge Hough.'
"Sowo of these hes says toN ~
his affidavit. (which ] have told and
testified 90 against Mr.. ONeill, ! have
made uu myself. others were partly
nv own lies which the railroad rep
-escrta-fves have worked on with me
and POLISHED up the lies and told me
TO stick 10 and make them stronger.
Acted al Mothers Request
Fol declared that he has repudiated
his charges ed order TO ease his con
science and al the request OF ms
mother. Mrs. Jane Fox. Y years Old.
Mrs Fox loo am affidavit which accom-
pan.es FoN's says that her son had
worried and could not sleep.
" told him. she SAYS, that he had
broseu the commandment and borne
false witness against his nelghDor ana
that be- must undo the wrong he mad
done against Mr.. O'Nei!l.'
1.-TWO weeks ago" said Mr. Sheafe,
"F0l told me that two natives
OF ONe.iI offered him $4,000 for the
affidavit he filed yesterday. On Satur-
day Fox told me that this affidavit was
not true. that he did not expect any
body 90 believe IT,. and that his sole
purpose ir making il was to Kill the
charges against O'NcilL He said he
thought O'Neill was in a hole and that
he wanted 20 get him out.
"The Bar Associations says Fox com
mitted perjury. O'Neill says Fox com
mitted perjury. Now motion is made
for new trial on the affidavit
"Tne man swore 20 the same thing
on the stand in 1912 that he denies
now in his affidavit" said Mr. Gibbons.
Three months ago n the same pro-
ceedinc, he wore that he had lied and
that ! had induced him 10 lie. Three
weeks later he asserted that he had