The New York herald., 1921-11-05
Voters Reminded Of Many
Indictments Against
Promoter.
8 TAMMANY MEN PRAISED
ZAP Smith, James A. Foley and
Justice Wagner Of Finest
Type, Says Speaker.


School IL. in West Forty-seventh
street between Eighth and Ninth ave-
nues, where William Travers Jerome
was speaking last night. interrupted
the former District Attorneys ar
ra'gnment Of Mayor Hylan to ask q
question. During Jerome's discuss
OF Hylan's connection with Alfred r.
Goslin. notorious swindler. the man
said he wanted to know whether M.
Ey!an knew, when ho accepted and
indorsed a check from Goslin for his
campaign fund when he ran for Mu-
nicipal Judge, that Goslin was a crook.
The man. who subsequently declined
to give his namc. found Jerome a
rather difficult person to heclsle. This
was the dialogue as Il began when Mr.
Jerome brandished Eefore the audi
ence Goslin's check for $3.50 tsarins
the Endorsement "John r. Hylan":
"AIr. jerome, may ask you ques-
tion?" the man asked.
Mr.. Jerome: "You can II you will
come UP here like man ana ask it
where I can see what kind Of fellow
you are"
Man (after walking to platform): II
am not up here to make speech. am
| a stranger here--a comparative stranger.
don't know who ! am going to vote
for. You made a statement that MIR.
| Hylan had a check from an associate OF
his who you say was croow. / want
to ask you IL Mr.. Hylan knew he was q
crook when the check was signed by
him?"
Mr.. Jerome: At see now that you arc
a decent manly your question and ap-
pearance."
Man: "You can't always tell from
the outside OF the cover what's inside"
Jerome's story of Goslin.
Mr.. Jerome: 'In explanation I will
| tell you the facts. Alfred Goslin (the
man who wrote the cheeky had been
convicted of forgery in France and SEN
| fenced to eighteen months in prison. He
then came to this country. Perhaps you
are not an old New Yorker. but we had n
monumental swindler here in the old
days---520 per cent. Miller. And Goslin
was in with that swindler. rss
'sThere was a raid made on the securi-
ties of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. AT
that time the securities of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit were largely owned by
people Of moderate circumstances--many
widows and estates having Investments
In 1t. Goslin made a raid on that stock.
having run little Wall Street paper.
and trying to make turn, going short
of the stock, and was convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for six
months. which he served.
when he left this country he had
ffty-one indictments against him. And
1t was after this rapid transit swindle
that Goslin became an associate or
Hylan, and Hylan took these checks.
Does that answer your question:?
/ Man. Possibly he made amends
afterward, or something of that kind.
I have known some men to be associated
with crooks and be perfectly honest
themselves. The way you put this
and 1 can see II is In a campaign-put
intelligent people would like to be PUT
straight"
Mr. Jerome: "Fffty-one indictments
against Goslin were found immediately
. after his association with Hylan. and
no fled 20 Europe and he couldn't be
; extradited because the indictments were
not for the character OF offence thae
comes under the extradition treaty-
Voice from audience: 'I think that
answers tho question
The questioner left the platform.
Reminds of HyIan Denial.
J Mr.. Jerome: "To resume. 1t might be
that an innocent man might by chancs
be associated with crooks. But decent I
man. IL innocently associated with
crooks and being charged with that as
sociation when he was running Tor
Nayor OF the city OF New York. would
have said that he had been deceived.
But when this story OF Goslin's was
sprung on him in 1917. when he was run :
ming for Mayor. he promptly denied
knowing and denied ever having seen
Goslin, which doesn't look like man
being innocently associated with him.
Why deny 1t when he got MS oir'y
money In his clothes?"
The rest OF Mr.. Jerome's speech NJ
Public School No. II and others at Lex
} inaton Hall. 116 Eahx 116th street. ano
! at the Iyceum. Third avenue and
Eighty-sixth street, were devoted 70
resumes OF his charges against the
Hylan administration. These. he saio'
had not been denied from any respon-
! sible ouarter in the last two weeks. He
: reiterated his attacks on David Hirsh-
! field. Commissioner OF Accounts Police
Commissioner Enright and Comptroller
Craig.
: Jerome paid special attention to thst Of
ficials denial that he had practiseo law
since his election TO city office. He
! showed what he said was an affidavit
served In an action IN which Jerome
: firm was the attorney for the defendant
, "by Charles L. Craig In 1919, and sworn
|. TO by Craig. In which ho describes Foley
(James A. Foley as my associate.
James A. Foley"
Praises Foley. Smith. wagner.
Mr. Jerome took pains to make clear
[ that no had implied no wrongdoing on
, the part of Surrogate James A. Foley,
, who was once associated with Comptrol-
. Ter Craig In the practice of law. There
{ were three high in the councils OF Tam
many Hall. Mr.. Jerome said, for whom
he had the greatest respect--former GOV,
= Alfred II. Smith, Surrogate Foley and
[ Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Wag'
. ner.
I 'But no person ever heard or AL
|. Smiths name, or Jim Foley's or Boz
| Wsgner's being found on the back OF q
! crooks check. Their skirts are clear
[ And would like to ROW what Hylar
4 has on any OF them. They were ell poor
Y boys--wcre all hard up But they came
!. clean because their souls and characters
/ were clean. THIS poor boy staff OF the
| MAYORS is bunk"