New-York tribune., 1919-10-24

for chance to bust you on the jaw
and this looks like a chance"
Yancey stepped back and protested:
I'm not going to question him"
Il know you're not" Frisco" as
sured him.
Yancey LIT then and in his brain was
seething the unhappy thought that
Pink McCarver had been talking.
Pink had been. Altogether since he
was arrested in the Pennsylvania Rail-
road station Monday night just as he
was starting back home to Nashville,
Pink has talked eight hours and every
thing he said has been recorded by
competent stenographers. In the words
OF Special Assistant United States At
torney General John Minton, McCarver
has made a clean breast of every
thing"
The low bail fixed for McCarver WAS
proof enough for him that he had used
excellent judgment the night before,
whom, from his cell in the West
Thirtieth Street police station, he had
sent word to Chief Flynn that he
quest was granted quickly. Two
trusted agents of the Department Of
Justice took him to room in Broad
way hotel. Mr.. Flynn was there, chew
ing the ragged end of a half-smoked
cigar. Mr.. Minton was there also, and
Chief Flynn's secretary. 1t wasn't nee
essary to question McCarver very
much, except as an occasional query
was needed as a rudder to steer his
conversation into desired channels. He
was more than willing to talk.
Comfort Confession Reward
About four hours later McCarver was
put to bed. His guards all but tucked
the police station cell either. Yester-
day morning he was brought down town
to the Offices Of the Department of
Justice in Park Row. Then he was
placed under oath by Mr.. Minton and
again told his story, this time in
more connected form.
Later. Mr.. Minton said:
"McCarver has offered to aid the
government in every way. He has
made statement to the Department
OF Justice. 1t contains important dis
closures and as q result other arrests
are to follow. He sent for us after
ne ne was locked up Wednesday night
lie talked to US for four hours. He
said his own actions were innocent in
intent"
Those are some Of the things that the
dapper Mr.. Yancey would have liked
to have questioned his bo hood friend
about in the Federal Building corridor.
William j. Polling and Pasuuale
Pignuolo, the other agents of the De-
partment of Justice under Indictment
IN the same case, we're also in the cor
rldor when Yancey tried to talk to Nc
Carver.
Morton P. Allen. the other defend
ant, but who is not an agent of the
Department of Justice was not AROUND
he, TOO, has known Pink McCarver al
his life, For his home is in Nashville
also.
Tries His Case in Court
Their attorney, William Fits,
Southerner, too, came through the cor
rldor during the afternoon. Yancey
had referred reporters to Fits. The re-
porters surrounded Mr.. Fits and asked
MN II he would make a statement for
his clients. -0'
Il don't try my cases in the news
papers; / try them in court" replied
Mr. Fits, and stalked away.
1t was learned that twenty suhnoa-
mas were sent out during the day. sum
,monlng the proprietors of manv we'll
snown cafes and saloons to appear be-
tore the Federal Grand Jury on Mon
day morning. " ~ va
1t is understood that among those
who will be asked to appear before the
grand jury are Bob Ne son, Of Rec
II2rs; Tom Healy, Arthur Mclean, of
Hunter Island Inn; Captain Jim Chur
emil and prominent assistant of Dis
trict Attorney Swami. This official is
SAID to have an interest in Broadway
saloon, which, it is understood hoe
been selling liquor with much the same
sort of freedom as characterized other
saioons which the government officials
VIII seek to prove were paying money
for protection
Besides the places named most of
she'owners of Westchester road Houses
are to be summoned before the Federal
grand jury. 1t is unders.o, d that
,mong these will be the proprietors Of
Fell Tree Inn, Pelham Heath Inn, Shan
-eys and The Arrow Head Inn.
1t was said that these were only a
starter: that the investigation would
be In full blast for a month.