The New York herald., 1920-01-17
JUSTICE WEEKS "STILL HUNT" IN
WALL STREET FOR. SCANDAL
IN STOCK DEALS REVEALED
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pssuit OF his tabulajcn, some OF which was
cone in my presence and some Of which
was done when was not there.
To Get Stock Exchange Sheets,
In the meantime he communicated with
she Stock Exchange and gave me entry to
the office of the secretary of the Stock Ex-
change and informed me that he had per-
sonaly communicated with officers and
committees of the Stock Exchange and had
some of them call upon him personally
and. as result OF that, subpoena duces
tecum was drawn up by me on . form
that had been prepared by Judge Weeks,
telling me what to get from the brokers
whose names were turned up on the
Clearing House sheets of the New York
Stock Exchange.
I'm preparation for that he had ar
ranged to have Mr.. Strait. chairman of
the Clearing House Committee of the New
York Stock Exchange, appear before the
Grand Jury with Clearing House sheets
OF a particular date, and subsequently I
obtained other Clearing House sheets
through this introduction to Mr.. Strait,
up the brokers who had dealt in the inter-
borough stock, which was the only secur-
1ty which was investigated finally. j then
visited brokers indicated on these sheets,
after going over the Clearing House
sheets with Judge Weeks. Names were
selected on the first list by him and on
subsequent lists by me without consulting
him.
Il went down to the offices Of brokers
turned up on these sheets as having large
0ansactions in sales of the Interborough
preferred stocks and carried with me a
form Of subpoena handed to me by Judge
Weeks with instructions to subpoena these
men before the Grand Jury IL they did
not permit me to see their books without
subpoena. Then when made a note of
the result of my examination Of the books
or the brokers' offices 1 came back and
submitted it to Judge Weeks.
During this investigation I was called
up from time to time by Judge Weeks
and requested to come down and report
to him the result Of my Investigations.
Calls ON Thirty Brokers.
During the course of this investigation
! visited probably thirty different brok-
erage offices, which were indicated to me
by Judge Weeks, Some of them three or
four times, always searching for the names
Of public officials other persons who
might have sold at the times above indi-
Judge Weeks gave me to understand
that the search was to be directed for
stock transactions the part of public
officials or other persons. Judge Weeks
referred to an anonymous letter received
by him. in which it was stated by some
person unknown that the writer had closed
out his transactions in traction stocks.
He had letter in his hand when he re-
ferred to the anonymous letter At no
time did Judge Weeks put the letter in
my possession.
''From November 5 to November "a I
was practically entirely relieved from all
other work in the District Attorneys
office and active solely in this investiga-
tion under the direction and supervision
of Mr.. Justice Weeks. and during that
time l did not report either to the District
Attorney or to the Acting District Attor-
ney. but only to Judge Weeks.
"On or al out November "a, 1919, Judge
Weeks told me that had gone far enough
in the investigation along the lines we
pursued. and as nothing of importance
had been turned up he had under consid-
Grafton the sending of a circular letter
to all the brokers in Wall street, and
asked me to draft such letter. ] did so
that afternoon and mailed II to him. He
received it the next day aud / was noti-
fled by telephone that the letter was
ready. and called at Judge Weeks cham
bers. No. 81 Chambers street, and received
my draft OF the letter hack with certain
corrections made by himself. Judge Weeks
suggested that this letter be signed either
by me or by the District Attorney and
that take this matter up with the District
Attorney.
.I then presented the matter to the Dis
srict Attorney. who refused to put MS
name to the letter or to permit me to put
minis to it, and the District Attorney stated
that il the letter went out at all 1t
be sent out over the signature of the fore
man of the Extraordinary Grand Jury OF
Judge Weeks.
IN the whole investigation acted en-
tirely under the direction Of Judge Weeks
and reported solely to him."
Swami to Justice Weeks.
Mr.. Swann's letter to Justice Weeks.
yriuen on January 10, while the Ex-
traordinary Grand Jury was preparing It's
presen tment announcing the dismissal OF
the Mayors Interborough strike con-
spiracy charges, brings to light for the
first time that Justice Weeks has under
investigation recommendations made by
the District Attorney In certain bail cases
and in other cases where the District At
torney has recommended that, the indict-
ments be dismissed.
"I assume" Mr.. Swami concluded in his
letter, that in all this you are acting as
An individual citizen and not in your
JUDICIAL Capacity, dS, VI SoNioS' eAAS
of American justice does not provide for
Observation-Disclosures
Mr. swann's letter follows In part,
thus
when you asked for the services of
Mr.. McQuaid he was promptly requested
10 report to you. learned later that you
were sending him around from office to
office among the stock brokers Of Wall
street, examining their records in an eff
fort TO discover any transaction Of trad