The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1920-01-16
CHARGES JUSTICE
SOUGHT EVIDENCE
AGAINST HYLAN
Talley Asserts Weeks Hunted
Proof That Mayor Sold
|. r. T. Stock.
SWAMI ALSO NAMED.
Court Declares Inquiry Was
Really Instituted by Dis
trict Attorney.

Assistant District Attorney Alfred J..
Talley in open court to-day charged
Supreme Court Justice Barlow S.
Weeks with ursurping the functions IF
the legal adviser Of the Extraordinary
Grand Jury Mr.. Tallcy was cndeavor-
ing 10 prevent the making public Ot
selected excerpts Of the minutes OF the
Extraordinary Grand Jury. Mr.. Tally
insisted that all OF the minutes should
be made public If any part OF them
was
The specific charge made by Mr..
Talley was that Justice Weeks had
sent Assistant District Attorney Nc
Quaid on a hunt through Wall Street
for evidence that Mayor Hylan, Dis
trict Attorney Swami and other off,
cials had sold Interborough stock
shortly before the Mayor mado his
charges OF collusion between the Ill
terborough officials and lnterborough
employees: that Justice Weeks had
warned Nj. McQuaid not to allow DIS.
trict Attorney Swami or Mayor Hylan
TO know what nc was doing, and tha.
tho Justice and Foreman Alnirall. of
the Extraordinary Grand Jury, having
failed to find any evidence Of dealings
in Interborough stock on the part Of
these public officials, were endeavor-
ing to suppress proof Of their inno-
cence.
Justice Weeks did not specifically
deny the charges but he said that
McQuaid had been sent on tho Wall
Street hunt by Swami, and that any
instructions which he (thc JUSTICE
rave him were merely to assist him
in his search.
In charging that the Extraordinary
Grand Jury had ''been run by Jus
tlce Weeks and Foreman Raymond
s. Almirall, Mr. Talley commented so
forcibly on the conferences which
we're held between the Justice and
the foreman that Justice Weeks re-
piled:
| "I deem 1t necessary 10 say that the
conferences between the foreman and
the court were all on legal matters
I see nothing in your statement eX-
cent an endeavor on your part to
create the impression that such con-
fcrences were improper"
Justice Weeks denied that he had
| tried 10 direct McQuuid's move
ments."
us II not a fact" asked Mr.. Tai
Icy, that you furnished Mr.. McQuaid
the names Of number Of special
! lists in Interboruugh stock with the
suggestion that he interview them
/ and find out whether the Mayor and
the District Attorney and other pub
lie officials were selling short?"
! Justice Weeks did not answer.
"Is it not a fact" continued Mr..
Talley that you found that there
was not a single transaction IN
these stocks by public officials? If
| this was the original Of the over
! shadowing crime II failed It's pur-
pose"
you ure entirely wrong as to the
reason for this inquiry" replied
| Justice Weeks.
"Why don't you make public the
/ results Of that inquiry, then" con
tinued Mr., Tauey, in justice to tho
men accused"
Justice Weeks replied that he had
no control over the District Attorney
| or information which he had ub-
| tained and which Is not laid before
the Grand Jury
As a. Justice Of the Supreme
. Court" rotortcd Mr. Taney "you
should be fair, YOU should f-ec those
public officials from the iUuucuioS
which have been created
Justice Weeks replied that the Dis
trict Attorney could make It public n
he saw fit. Nr Taucy continued to
protest against the efforts Of tho
Grand Jury to make public it's min
ltcs relating 20 the colusion charge.
Of Mayor Hylan without making pub-
nc It's entire Investigation into the
'overshadowing crime
Justice Weeks reserved decision.