New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-26
Charges He Sent $4,000
to Buy Confessions of
Sox From an Attache
of Prosecutors Office
Admissions Will
Go Before Jury
Officials and Notes of
Stenographers to Back
Up Copies Presented

CHICAGO, July 25. Judge Hugo
Friend, sitting in the case of the for
mer White Sox players and alleged
gamblers charged with conspiracy to
throw the 1919 world series to Gin
cinnati, to-day ordered the confessions
of Eddie Cicotte, Joe jackson and
Claude Williams to the grand iury.
that they were paid from $4,000 to
$4,000 to throw games, admitted as
evidence despite the TACT that the three
men took the stand in their own de-
fense and swore they had been prom
ised immunity.
scandal within scandal developed
to-day when Ban Johnson, president of
the American League, sent word to
Robert Grove, States Attorney, that
he had evidence that Arnold RCthstein,
o. New York, whose name has been
prominent in the case, but who was
not indicted, and other Fasteners paid
$4,000 for copies of the grand jury
testimony and for the immunity waiv-
ers, confessions and other documents
start an immediate investigation.
81 CHARGE" said Mr.. Johnson's COM
munication, chat Arnold Rothstein
paid $4,000 for the grand jury con-
fessions of Edward Cicotte, Claude
Williams and Joseph Jackson. l charge
that this money, brought to Chicago
last fall by a representative of Roth
stein, went to an attache of the States
Attorneys office; that after Rothstein
had examined these confessions in New
York City and had found that the ball
players had not involved him he gave
the documents to friend, the man
aging editor of a New York newspa-
per-"
States Attorney Grove tonight said
he would "investigate the charges made
by Mr.. Johnson, and if they are sub
stantiated prosecutions will follow"
Former States Attorney Maclay
Hoyne, who had charge of the papers
appeared, said: II do not believe any
documents were stolen from the States
Attorneys Office or sold by any en-
ployee of the Office"
Gamblers May Be Tried
If any convictions are obtained in
the baseball trial new Investigation
of the scandal through which it is
charged the White Sox players agreed
started Immediately and attempts
made to implicate a group Of alleged
gamblers not now on trial, John Tyr
rell, Assistant States Attorney, an
nounced tonight.
Mr. Tyrrell said that the state was
convinced it could extradite Abe Attell,
who won one extradition fight in New
York; Hal Chase and others, and that
it could find j. j. Sullivan, of Boston,
and Rachel Brown, of New York, indict-
ed but never apprehended.
"There also is one Eastern gambler
who has been barred from race tracks
whose name has been mentioned fire.
quently by witnesses in this case" Mr..
Tyrrell said. eve thought at first that
he might be innocent, but in this new
investigation we will delve deeply into
his activities. The present trial is
merely d test case. If we obtain con-
victions against any Of the men now on
trial, we will 60 right ahead and try
every man in any way implicated IN
this affair before we geS through"
May Not Call Maharg or Gedeon
George German, Assistant States At
torney in charge of the prosecution,
said Tonight that the state might not
call Billy Maharg of Philadelphia, and
Joe Gedeon, former St. Louis player, as
witnesses.
eve may be able to complete our
case with the confessions" said Mr..
German, "and if we do, we will leave
Maharg and Gedeon OUT
Testimony about the confessions is
expected to take up most of tomorrow
Judge Friend admitted the confes-
sions f the ball players after Judge
Charles A. Mcdonald, who ordered the
baseball scandal investigation, followed
the players with testimony that they
were never promised anything; that
they signed immunity waivers, and
that they were plainly told that they
would be given no consideration by the
states attorneys.
Judge Friend then ruled that in place
of the original signed confessions of
the men, which are missing, the state
could hava the court stenographers at
the grand jury inquiry read from their
shorthand notes the testimony of the
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