New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-13
Subpoena for
McCraw Issued
might Inquiry
Swami Acts to Compel
Appearance of Baseball
Manager When Latter Ig-
nores Formal Request
The Lambs Defer Action
Club Council Postpones In
vestigation to Sept. 10;
Slavin Talks but Little

request" subpoena was issued yes
terday for John j. McGraw, manager
of the New York Giants. calling for
his appearance in District Attorney
Swann's office at noon to-day.
This action was taken by Mr.. Swami
late in the afternoon, when it became
obvious that McGraw intended to
ignore a letter which had requested
him to call on the District Attorney
yesterday. Emil Fuchs, OF s, Cham
bers Street, attorney for the baseball
manager, had promised that his client
would call at the Criminal Courts
Building yesterday.
Assistant District Attorney Unger,
who is conducting the investigation
into the circumstances surrounding the
injuries to John G. Slavin, the come
dian, who was found unconscious with
a fractured skull in front of the Nc
Graw home last Sunday morning,
waited all day for the Giants leader.
When informed of this District At
torney Swami ordered the subpoena
issued. The paper is said to have been
served on McGraw at his home, 301
West 1O9th Street, last night.
Slavin Talks Little
At the Office of Emil Fuchs it was
said that the lawyer had not been there
all day and nothing was known of his
whereabouts.
Assistant District Attorney Mario,
accompanied by stenographer and a
detective, went to the bedside of Slavin
in st. Luke's Hospital yesterday after
noon, but found that the actor was
physically unable to answer questions.
He is conscious, but Mr.. Mario said he
did not appear to be in full possession
of his faculties. The prosecutor asked
him but one question:
DO you remember what happened to
YOU"
Slavin shifted about in his bed and
replied in whisper:
"No, l don't remember anything"
An official of the hospital said that
an x-ray photograph of the actors
injuries showed that his skull had been
fractured He is expected to recover.
Thomas Meagan, the taxi driver who
drove McGraw, Slavin and Winfield
Liggett, a former naval officer, from
the Lambs to the baseball man
ayers home early Sunday morning, was
questioned at great length by Mr.. Mar
70, but his story threw little additional
light on the manner in which the
comedian was injured. The chauffeur
is being watched and probably will be
questioned again, the impression in the
District Attorneys office being that he
knows more than he has told.
According to the prosecutor, Meagan
said he picked up the three men in
front of the Lamb. AS they were
getting into the cab he noticed that
McGraw was slightly under the
weather" No stops were made on the
way to McGraw's home and no dis
turbance occurred inside the cab, &C
cording to the driver.
Meagan said he stopped his cab in
front of 301 West 109th Street and
Liggett got out first and assisted Nc
last to emerge. Liggett and Slavin
then attempted to escort McGraw into
his house, but the latter pushed them
off roughly, saying: Il don't want any
body to go with me. Phi 60 alone"
McGraw Pushed Lggett
The Giants leader then gave Liggett
the cab the door of which had been
left open. He fell into the taxi with
his back on the floor and his legs hang
ing out on the curb. Meagan said he
was looking into the cab at Liggett
when he heard thud and saw Slavin
lying PROSTATE on the sidewalk, while
McGraw was entering the house.
The McGraw case was discussed for
three hours yesterday afternoon at a
meeting of the executive council of
the Lambs. At the conclusion of the
meeting Earl o. Brown, chairman of
the house committee, gave out the fol-
loving statement:
"Thc council this afternoon adopted
resolution to notify both John j. Nc
Graw and William H. Boyd to appear,
if they so desire, before the council at
the next regular meeting, Thursday,
September Is, 1920, with respective
witnesses, to give all information they
have in reference to the alteration at
8. At this meeting the coucil will take
such action as the facts warrant"
The opinion was expressed last night
that McGraw is not without friends on
the executive council During the &C.
tors strike last year the Giants leader
won the friendship of many prominent
actors when he helped to arrange an
exhibition game for the Equity's benc-
fit between the Giants and the Yankees.
Several prominent members of the
Equity, it was said, are members of
the executive council of the Lambs and
thus are inclined to be friendly in
their attitude toward the baseball
manager.
Ernest Smith, clerk at the Lambs,
was held yesterday in $500 bail by
United States Commissioner Hitchcock
after he had waived examination on
charge of violating the Volstead act
Smith and Charles w. Bertncy, a
taxicab driver, were arrested in front
OF the Lambs by Detective John
w. O'Brien, of the 4th Inspection
District. Fifteen cartons, alleged to
contain liquor, were found in the ma
chApe. Commissioner Hitchcock dis
missed the chauffeur.
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