The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-26
CONFESSIONS OF INDICTED SOX IS EVIDENCE, JUDGE
Scandal Within a Scandal Develops In Baseball
 Trial at Chicago

Chicago. July 25.-Judge Hugo
 Friend, sitting in the case of the
 Former White soX players and ai- | legged gamblers charged with conspir-
 acy to throw the 1919 world series to | Cincinnati. today ordered the comics
 sions of Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson
 and Claude Williams to the grand jury that they were paid from s5,000 | to sl0,000 to throw games admitted as evidence, despite the fact that the 1 three men took the stand in their | own defense and swore they had been promised immunity.
 ! Judge Charles A. Mcdonald, who ordered the baseball scandal investi- | gation, followed the players with testimony that they were never prom
 sed anything. that they signed im-
 munity waivers and that they were plainly told that they would be given
 no consideration by the states at
 torney.
 Judge Friend then ruled that in place of the original signed confes
 
 the state could have the court steno- graphers at the grand jury inquiry read from their shorthand notes the testimony of the three players. He also granted permission for Judge 1 Mcdonald and others to whom the ing to the grand jury to testify as to these conversations, the state thus being able to present series Of identical confessions instead of only one
 Confessions to be Read The confessions themselves will be read to the jury when court recon venes tomorrow. Judge Mcdonald today told his version of them-how Cicotte was paid $10,000 and Jackson and Williams 5000 each, tha latter two claiming they were double crossed out of $15.000 more promised each of them. After the reading ot the confessions, Alfred Austrian, White Sox attorney, will relate what the three players told him, and Harry Brigham. foreman of the grand Jury. will verify the statements as read by the court reporters
 Cieotte. Jackson and Williams tes-
 tified with the jury absent, their tes- timony dealing only with the admls- sibility of the confessions. Chewing gum vigorously and speaking in low but distinct tone, Cicotte brought absolute silence in the court room when he told he had broken down be- fore Judge Mcdonald and with tears in his eyes confessed to him.
 T have cried a plenty over this case" the once great pitcher said. T didn't weep and vail as some say, but I guess there were plenty or tears
 in my eyes and the crying l have
 done inwardly is much greater than the tears which actually came out
 When Judge Mcdonald had finished denying the statements the players
 attributed to him he promised them | immunity, he walked over to Clcotte and Jackson.
 Hello, Eddie,p he said. I'm l sorry. but 1 had to tell the truth" Cicotte smiled. Hello Judge" was | all he said Jackson looked straight
 ahead and said nothing.
 Confirms Burns Story
 Judge Mcdonald not only denied
 that immunity was promised the men.
 but gave testimony in the presence | of the jury which confirmed much of l Dlll puLhS olOiys AAS quOSSN ANNNAS | Cicotte as telling him the alleged
 conspiracy was started at the Ansonia l hotel New York, in a conversation 1 between Cicotte and another party | Judge Mcdonald not being permitted 1 to mention any names except that of l the man he was quoting. He quoted l Cicotte as confirming Burns story | that the players asked for $100,00J
 and that other meetings were held l e. !
 the Warner hotel in Chicago.
 A scandal within scandal devel-
 oped today, when Ban Johnson, presi- 1 dent of the American league, sen; ] word to Robert Grove, assistant | states attorney, that he could prove l that Arnold Rothstein of New York,
 whose name has been prominent in | the case, but who was not indicted, l and other customers paid S10,000 1 for copies of the grand jury testi-
 monies and for the immunity waivers, l confessions and other documents mis- sing.
 T charge scid MT. Johnson's communication, that Arnold Roth stein paid $10,000 for the grand jury confessions of Edward Cicotte, Claude Williams and Joseph Jackson. charge that this money, brought to Chicago last fall by a representative of Rothstein, went to an attache of the states attorney 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 managing editor Of New York paper.
 States Attorney Grove tonight said he would Investigate the charges made by Mir. Johnson and if they are substantiated, prosecutions will follow"
 Former States Attorney MacLay Hoyne, who had charge of the papers at the time they are said to have
 disappeared, said today:
 q do not believe any documents were stolen from the states attor- -kc cs I1 h