New-York tribune., 1920-09-30
that day to this. Gandil told me that
we We're supposed to GET
What was it 2"
Suspected Double.Crossing

What was it?"
Suspected Double. Crossing
II was supposed to get $4,000 after
the second game when we got back to
Chicago, and | didn't get this until af-
ter the fourth game, and he then said
that the gamblers had called it off, and
l figured then that there was double
cross some place. On the second trip
7 to Cincinnati Cicotte and had con-
ference. told him that we were
! double-crossed and that I was going to
win If there was any possible chance.
Cicotte said he was the same way. GaE-
dill informed me in Cincinnati that Bill
Burns and Abe Attell were fixing it so
that we could get 100000. making $780,
600 more. That l never received"
"You had meeting in Cincinnati Of
the ball players; where was that?"
"Thas was in the hotel in Chick
Gandil's room"
| Who was there?"
eve never had q meeting. We just
dropped in one at a time. There were
| Weaver, Cicotte, Gandil, Felsch and
myself"
WAS Weaver there?"
What Gandil Was Promised
Eyes. We asked Gandi when we
were going to get the 100000 that
Burns and Attell were supposed 80 give
US. He said, They are supposed to give
me, after each game, $4,000 or $780,
000:' II they gave him that I know
nothing of it,"
When did he say he would get some
money"
"He didn't say; he didn't make
statement. | was supposed at first to
get so much-get $4,000 after the
after, the fourth game"
Did you keep the $10oo0?"
II kept $4,000 of it,"
Five thousand was for you and
$4,000 for Jackson" 2"
THAT was what I was instructed"
After the series you were to have
got $4,000 or 100000"
I'm all l was supposed to gee $40, 900
and Jackson to get $4,000"
Did you ever ask Gandil or any
one else".-
~ never even talked to Gandil from
that day to this"
Did you ever talk to any of the
0'sssE ssSe.s ball p''ys'''"
did any Of the other bail players
"No."
"Do you know how much Weaver
got?"
Got Money From Gandil
II could not say. None Of the other
boys ever told me whether they got
penny or not. That is all know
went to Gandil's room; he was there;
there was the money laying-two pack
ages, two envelopes, laying there; and
he says, There Is your dough- picked
1t up and went right back down to
taxicab and went right back TO the
hotel, where went in and threw half
of it on the bed; some Of the folks was
in the bathroom or in the bedroom--I
there-but l went in the other room
and said. There is supposed to be
half Of it,"
Questioned as to how he knew what
was in the envelope, Williams said:
"Gandil told me There is five for
yourself and five for Jackson and the
rest has been called for"
And that was after the fourth
game?"
"Yes."
"Now, did any one ever speak to you
game?"
They never said word to me. No
body asked me about money or any
other game at all"
"Did you know what games the Sox
were to lose for all this money they
were gettngw
"Why, they were supposed to lose the
frst two to Cincinnati, and | never did
hear whether they were to lose or to
win the one with Kerr" Dick Kerr
pitched the third game and won it.
Williams, before making his state
ment, signed 9 waiver of immunity.
| Cicotte Confessed to Gleason
! William "Kid" Gleason, manager of
The White Sox, disclosed to-day the
march Of events which eliminated in
Cicotte's confession and the voting OF
| indictments.
Last Monday, according to GLEASON.
he had gathered enough evidence ITO
know that some of the players had
been bribed to lose the series. Cicotte
came to HIM Monday night, he said,
and declared he had "a load on his
Gleason told him to see "Commy"-
Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Sox
Comiskey heard Cicotte's story
which tailed with the evidence gath
cred by his private detectives, and then
called his attorney, Mr.. Austrian, and
told him to take the pitcher to Judge
Mcdonald, chief justice Of the CooA
County Criminal Court. The coriss-
sion and indictments were the result
i Portions of the confessions Of
Cicotte and Jackson, revealed yesterday
by court officials, were amplfled to-day
by further information from court Of
HceYs. Cicotte and jackson did not
make formal statements, as most at
the jury proceedings were kept secret
especially as to developments likely to
involve other persons in legal pro
"Risberg, Gandil and McMullin were
after me FOR a week before the series
started" Cicotte told the grand jury
"They wanted me to go crooked.
needed the money. had the wife ano
kids. They don't know this and | don't
know what they'll think.
Paid OF Mortgage on Farm
"I had bought farm. There was 8
$4,000 mortgage. l paid that of with
crooked money.
"The eight Of us-the eight under in.
dictment-got together in my room
three or four days before the ser!es
started. Gandil was master OF cere
monies. We talked about throwing tht
series and decided we could get away
with it, We agreed to do it.
81 was thinking of the wife and kids
and how | needed the money. tole
them had to have the cash in ad
vance. didn't want any checks.
didn't want any promises. Il Wantee
the money in bills before pitched {