The New York herald., 1921-12-09
ALMIRALL JURORS
SUSPENDED 3 YEARS
Grand Jury Board Disci-
plines Hunters for 'Over-
shadOwing Crime
MOST UNUSUAL ACTION
Tn Session Three Years and
Got One Conviction. Cost
ing 100000.
FUNDS WASTED, IS CHARGE
Panelled to Curb Radicals 1t
Tackled Hylan, the I. r. T.
and Other Subjects.

The members of the Extraordinary
Grand Jury of 1919, of which Raymond
F. Almirall was foreman, and which
was known as the Almirall Grand
Jury, were barred by the Grand Jury
Board yesterday from further service
as grand jurors for a term of three
years. The charges on which the ac-
ton of the board. was based were that
the Almirall jury had wasted public
funds and misused it's powers For
NAL report of the proceedings of the
board, it was said yesterday, will not
be made until next Monday.
The members of the board who at
tended the meeting at which the vote
was taken that barred the members OF
the jury from further service were JUS
tices Clarke and Bowling, Judge McIn-
tyre and Frederick L. O'Byrne, Com
missioner of Jurors for New York
County. Judge Mott and Mayor Hylan,
the other members Of the board, were
not present. The vote of the board
means that the members of the jury are
TO be punished by suspension rather than
the dropping Of their names from the
list
Justice Weeks Designated.
The Grand Jury under charges was
formed after Gov. Alfred E. Smith had
issued an order designating JUSTICE
Weeks of the Supreme Court as presid-
Ing justice of an extraordinary term of
the court to follow the disclosures of al
legged radical and seditious activities ex-
posed by the Lusk committee during its
Investigations Of conditions In New York
county. The jury devoted its time for
several months to its investigation of
activities of radicals. returning indict-
merly a Socialist Assemblyman, and
James Larkin, an Irish labor agitator.
During this time the jury was or
friendly terms with District Attorney
Edward Swami, but these friendly rela-
tions were broken off to a large extent
when the District Attorney began pre-
seniing evidence tending to show collu-
sion between the Interborough Rapid
Transit Company and its employees or
6ynization I'm the matter of the subway
strike of that period.
The clash became so severe that
A.--..:2n wrote to the Governor de-
claring that the District Attorney was
hampering the work of his Jury The
Governor then appointed William Rand
to act as Especial Acknowledgement,
and the jury began to hunt for the
"overshadowjng crime" without sue
cess.
Boards Session Secret.
The sessions of the Grand Jury Board
are secret. Therefore 1t is not known
what evidence was presented to it. The
jurors who are barred are as follows:
Raymond f. Almirall architect, 112
East Forty-sixth street; Julius Buch-
man, cotton goods merchant. 112 Prince
street; Henry Osterweiss, retired, Hotel
Endicott; Charles Friedenberg ex-
porter, IL State street; George Latham
tailor, 435 West 10th street; Arthur c.
Meyer. merchant, 25 Madison avenue; :;
Otto s. Wise. manager r. II. Macy G.
Co, Hotel San Reno; George c. Schae-
fer. treasurer. 142 East Fifty-ninth
street; John j. Cuskley, real estate. 321
Madison avenue: Henry c. Thompson.
manager Colonial Bank, 26s1 Broadway:
Henry Meyers, Hamilton Press, 40 Stone
street: Walter s. Sullivan. Mutual Life
Insurance Company, 45 Cedar street;
Ellwood Hendrick. writer, 1879 East
Fortieth street; Clinton Tyler Brainard.
Harper & Brothers, 327 Pearl street;
Benjamin Hamburger. salesman. 215
Fourth avenue; Isaac Landman. cloth
ing. 554 Third avenue: Charles r. Ber-
win. hardware, 7S Reade street; Alex
ander Warendorff florist. 325 Fifth ave-
nue.; Wilson Potter. architect. "a East
Seventeenth Street Lawrence w. Mack,
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company. l Madison avenue; Herbert
6. Einstein, Broker. % Broad street:
Charles II. August, real estate so West
Seventy-seventh street and John w.
Price, real estate, 10e East Ninety
sixth street.