New-York tribune., 1920-08-19
McCraw to Tell
About Liquor
Details Today
Does Not Wish to Pose as
1nformer, but Directs
Counsel to Give Dry
Agent Alleged Facts
Has Conclusion of Brain
J. C. Slavin, Actor, Injured
After Fight in Lambs,
Is in Grave Condition

Two representatives of James Shev-
lin, Supervisor of Prohibition Enforce
ment, called upon John j. McGraw at
his home. sol West 109th Street, yes
terday afternoon and conferred with
the baseball manager. They later re-
ported to Mr.. Shevlin that McGraw had
informed them that through his coun-
sci, William J. Fallon, he would gladly
furnish the prohibition officer with the
details of his alleged purchases of
liquor at the Lambs the morning John
c. Slavin. an actor, was injured
Mr.. Fallon said he would call at Mr..
Shcvlin's Office at IL o'clock today for
that purpose. McGraw, he said, has no
desire to pose as an informer, but has
nothing to conceal from the Enforce
ment Supervisor.
Slavin's Condition Grave
The condition of Slavin is grave, it
was said at St. Luke's Hospital last
night. He has not been fully conscious
for any length of time since he was
found in front of McGraw's home eleven
days ago suffering from a fractured
skull after Il fall to the sidewalk
McGraw sat in a Morris chair with
his head swathed in bandages while
August HasenAug, counsel of the Pro-
hibition Department, and Agent Louis
Heifferin talked with him and Fallon
and Eugene f. McGee, his attorneys
McGraw's business associate, Francis
y. McQuade, a city magistrate and part
owner Of the Giants, was also present.
The prohibition agents did not ques-
ton McGraw after Fallon said his
client preferred to deal direct with
Mr.. Shevlin, and he agreed to repre-
sent him at Shevlin's office this morn
ing.
The agents were told that X-ray
plates of McGraw's head, taken last
Saturday, had been developed and re-
ported upon yesterday by DR.. William
+. Bender, physician of the Giants, who
has been attending their manager for
sundry Injuries received in his fight
with William II. Boyd, an actor, at
The Lambs.
DR.. Bender's report, it was said,
stated that the plates indicated Nc
Graw's skull had not been fractured,
put showed slight concussion of the
brain which will necessitate McGraw's
confinement to his apartment for sew
eral days more.
At the conclusion of the conference
McGraw said:
1T has been stated to some of the
newspapers that some lawyer called
upon Mr.. Swami several days ago in
my behalf. | did not authorize any
BODY to represent me. Mr. Fallon is
my lawyer, and no one else has been
retained by me-"
Fuchs Called on Swami
District Attorney Swami announced
several days ago that Emil Fuchs. a
former city magistrate, with law Of
fees at 81 Chambers Street, had rep
resented himself as McGraw's attorney
ana arranged an appointment for Nc
Graw with the District Attorney.
Mr. Shevlin's interest in questioning
McGraw is based upon his statement
to Assistant District Attorney Unger
That he bought several quarts Of whisky
during the course of a party at The
Lambs.
Ralph T. Stanton, attorney for Ernest
Smith, night clerk of The Lambs. said
yesterday that Smith had sold no
liquor to McGraw and was not the
owner of the quantity of whisky, wine
and champagne confscated by the po-
lice while an attempt was being made
to remove it from the club on Au-
gust IL.
The statement was made after Smith
pleaded not guilty TO charge of vio-
latIng the trans sportation clause of the
Nolsted act before Federal Judge
Holmes Yesterday.
"fhe liquor taken over by the Police
Department was not personal property
of Smith's,' Stanton declared "At the
present time won't say to whom it
really belonged; but | will say that it
belonged to more than one person and
was not in the possession of my client
II the extent that he was selling it,"