New-York tribune., 1921-11-05
Jerome, i'm 3
Speeches, Hits
Hylan's Record
interrupted by Heckler,
He Recites Mayors Con-
nection With Coslin. Ex.
Convict and Swindler
Assails Deal for Pier
Declares Somebody Received
Sl2 500 in Craft in the
Brooks Steamship Case

William Travers Jerome. still coollv
dlssecting and analvzing bit by bit the
business and political career OF Mayor
Hylan, and laying each separate fact
before his audience as he would pre-
sent 1T to jury, made three speeches
last night advocating the election of
foF Mayor.
Mr.. jerome spoke at Public School
No. II, in The McManus's stronghold,
rty seventh Street near Eighth Ave-
nue.; at the Lyceum, Third Avenue and
Eightv-third Street, and at Lexington
Hall 1l6 East l1cth Street
At Public School II Mr.. Jerome was
heckleds by IAN apparently earnest
seeker for guidance in casting his bal
lot who wanted to know what proof
there was that Mayor Hylans had. as
Mr.. Jerome charged, accepted a check
from the ex-convict Goslin.
with a newspaper tucked under his
arm and with his hat swinging from
his hand the heckler went to the plat
form.
Cites Record of Coslin
II am stranger here he said. "and
! DO nct know who | am going to vote
I Tor: You made statement that Mr.
r Hylan had a check from an associate
of his who You say was a crook. I
want to ask if Mr.. Hylan knew he
was crook when the check was signed
by him."
Mr.. Jerome then recited Gosiin's bi-
| ography, beginning with his conviction
Tor perjury in France, his association
with 1920 Per Cent Miller" in New
York, his raid on i. r. T. stock in
! wall Street. his six mon.hs term in
che penitentiary and his escupe from
America and the ffty-one indictments
/ standing against him. The stranger
remarked sadly that sometimes even
great men found themselves associated
with crooks, and returned to his seat.
Going over the Brooks steamsh n
Company pier deal Mr. Jerome said
that Surrogate Foley was son-in-la,y
OF Charles Murphy, the Tammany dis
trlct leader, and that he was described
I by Comptroller Charles f. Craig az
an associate in certain legal papers
before going on the bench. The names
came up in the Brooks Steamship line
pier deal.
II expressly stated" Mr.. Jerome
sad, that | did net charge that a
dollar of that SIP zoo ever went to
Foley or to Hubert or 10 Craig, but
said just the same it vas graft and
that no unknown boy (CocAran) was
allowed by Tammany Hall to take the
s12,500 plum without some one getting
it,"
Most officials Dummies
"a city may be honeycombed and
looted with graft without public off
GERS getting any of it. In fact most
public officers in the City of New York
have commonly been dummies"
Mr.. Jerome said that three clean,
honest men had come out of Tammany
Hall-Surrogate James A. Foley, for
mer Governor Al Smith and Judge
Robert F. Wagner.
What did John F. Hylan have on
them?" the speaker demanded. "They
were as poor as he was. Two of them
were lawyers. They all fought their
way up, but was the name of any one
of these three ever found on a felon's
check? Was it ever said of any. one
of them that he was the associate of
crooks?"
Mr.. jerome then plunged into the
Eagle Savings and Loan Institution, of
which Hylan was a director for four
years and of which the speaker quoted
Justice Greenbaum as saying that the
passbook was designed to perpetrate
fraud, and added that the president
and vice president went to Sing Sing
and the loan man committed suicide.