New-York tribune., 1921-09-23

morning in regard to the seconds pay
nent: "Mr. Gilbert also came to see
US. ( do not remember whether to me
or to Captain Rospini, but he told us
that Inspector Henry had been in his
Office and had called him up and told
him that he did not think $500 was
enough for ali he had done for us. Mr..
/ Gilbert said we had to give him $500
more and be done with it," A-He is
entirely mistaken, sir.
Q-That is what I want to know.
Al never saw them about the Sec
ond $500. That was entirely
Cash and Carry PLAN Used
Q--The $500 came out of their own
minds? A-No, sir. The amount did,
absolutely. The request came from
me, but the amount in both cases came
from their own minds.
Q.--ln relation to this second $780,
the $500 in cash as given by the com
pany to your A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-You gave it to the office boy :?
Al didn't say "office boy" l said
Zone of the boys in the offiee"-Mr.
Godfrey Cohen.
Q.-And he gave the $500 to Henry? :?
Ale SO reported to ME, and he is
! an honest man. I assume he did.
Q.-You have no doubt about it
A.-Not the slightest doubt about it.
Here Senator Downing interposed the
following questions, which the witness
| answered:
Q.-You could just as we'll have given
it to him by check, couldn't you--only
for the inconvenience on account of his
condition? A.-Certainly, the COM
pany made record of it.
cit was not in an effort to con-
ceal it? A.-Not the slightest bit of
it. If I had anything to conceal l
would not have done it.
Mr.. Brown then resumed:
Mr., Gilbert, Sbo0?" A.-This was their
way Of keeping books. l assumed that
they had made an entry of it, and they
have made an entry of it.
Q.-And, in the other case, "gratuity
to Mr.. Gilbert, $50o?" A-That's right.
| Q.-"Pier account in both cases /!
Al don't know anything more accu-
rate.
Q.-Charged to pier account? A.
That's right.
Q.--Now, you feel very friendly to-
ward Mr.. Henry? Al feel very
| friendly toward the man because I
| he acted in a very excellent way with
{ respect to the problems that we had to
solve, and l feel sorry for the man If
he has any more trouble.
! Q.-Now, you do not know Of any
other money that went to Henry from
the company? Al know of none. In
fact, am positive from what the COM
pany have told me that they paid no
more and there would be no occasion
for them ever to have paid any more.
| Godfrey Cohen, the assistant in Mr.
J !,
been given an envelope by MI. Gill
bert with the remark that it contained
money and that he was to deliver it
to Inspector Henry in the Tombs. This
he says he did
+: Henry II. Graef, the chief ac-
/ ceuntant OF the local office of the Fur
ness Witty Company, then told how
they were forced to employ Cross for
the guarding of Pier 95, adjoining that
Of the Italian Line, and their FIVE o,her
piers, Pier a. Bush Docks, South
Brooklyn. and Piers 20, 80 and go, East
River, and Pier AZ, North River. The
company formerly had their own
| policing organization known as the
Bay Ridge Operating Company, which
got men through agencies.
Changed Guard System
This system they changed in Febru-
ary, 1920. he said, when Adam Cross
was employed. He explained that the
company pays rental of $50, 900 year
|! for Pier 95, and that it cost the com
pany $13.628.40 to have the pier
watched under their own organization
in 1919, and $4,261 more up TO Febru-
ary 12, 1920. On the latter date Cross
came in, he said, and it cost the COM
pany $63,541.21 to have the pier
guarded under the Cross management
during the remainder of 1920. For the
first five months of 1921 this protec-
tion has cost the firm $S0,6S7, or at
the rate of about $4,000 year
Mr.. Graef at first tried to show that
the increased cost was due to more
men because of increased business.
When Mr.. Brown quoted figures show
ing that the company did less business
while Cross was in charge than in the
period when they had their own sys-
TEN, Mr. Graef said the committee
counsel would have to get more accu-
rate information from Captain Nc
Dougai, the man in charge of the piers.
MIR. Brown showed that in 1919. when
the company's watching cost $13.628.
the firm did wharfage collection busi-
ness OF $l41,52 In 1920, when the
nrm's business amounted to only $685.
e5O, the watching cost $6S,O00.
Following this testimony several of
the watchmen employed on the Italian
Line piers under Cross were examined
on how they obtained their jobs.
James Marrone, formerly emploved
by the Vachris Agency. told of going
to Police Headquarters ON advice Of
Gross, and when ne went. to Commits
! sioner Enright's office and said he was
to work under Cross he was imme
diately sworn in as special police
man. Dennis Haggerty said he was a
bartender and had been employed to
another of Cross's alleged ex-police,
men, said ne was formerly porter.
The hearing will be resumed ncvt
TUESDAY afternoon at o.2n n y,