Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-15
EWALD QUIZ OPENED
BY SPECIAL Jury
Gov. Roosevelt Orders Probe
of Alleged $4,000 Pay
ment for JudgeShip.
By the Associated Press

! BY the Associated Press.
4 NEW YORK, September 15.-By
1 order of Gov. Franklin d. Roosevelt
/ an extraordinary grand jury was con-
/ vened today to investigate charges that
/ George F. Ewald paid $4,000 for his
! appointment as a agistrate-charges
/ on which a county grand jury failed
TO indict.
Ewald who resigned from the city
bench under fire, is already under Fed
eral indictment for mail fraud: a city
| official has been forced out of Office
| and indicted for income tax evasion in
connection with the alleged appoint
! ment purchase, and a sheriff S clerk
has resigned in the face of charges that
! he was the go-between in the reputed
bench buying.
Stock Sales Investigation.
Ewald sat on the traffic bench for
three years without attracting public
notice, but when United States Attorney
Charles H. futile investigated sale of
stock in the Cotter Butte Mines, it was
| revealed that Ewald had been a director
in the company and charges developed
that he had been active in disposing of
stock. He was indicted.
In the course of his investigation
T1lttle adduced evidence tending to show
that persons arraigned before Ewald for
traffic violations had purchased Cotter
Butte stock and that subsequently
charges against them had been dis
missed. This evidence was turned over
to District Attorney Grain.
During the ensuing county investiga-
ton 1t developed that three days be-
fore Ewald was appointed to the bench,
Mrs Bertha Ewald, his wife, hal given
$4,000 to Thomas T. Tommaney, chief
clerk in the sheriff's Office, for Martin
j. Healy a Tammany district leader
and an official in the city department
of Plant and Structures. Emmerich
Boczor, former secretary to Ewald,
testified that the magistrate had told
him of paying $4,000 to Healv and
$4,000 to a DR.. Francis Schrip for his
appointment.
$4,000 as Personal Loan.
Healy, Tommaney and Mrs. Ewald
refused to answer questions before the
Federal grand jury on the ground that
it might tend to incriminate and de-
grade them, but they told the county
grand jury that the $4,000 was a per-
sonal loan for a house Healy wanted
to buy, and the grand jurors refused to
return an indictment.
Later the grand jury reopened its
consideration of the case, but by that
time the Governor had ordered a spe-
cial investigation and had appointed
Hiram G. Todd as special deupty at
torney general to conduct the inquiry.
Healy and Tommaney resigned and
Healy was indicted by Federal grand
jury for failing to make an income tax
return for the year he received the $10,-
900 from Mrs. Ewald
Last week Tuttle discovered evidence
indicating that Healy was paid S22, 900
by publishers of school books while he
was employed in the city Department
of Education. Tuttle also found in bank
records evidence tending to show that
Healy received $4,000 for sponsoring
the appointment of Jacob Cash as city
marshal Cash is now suing Mayor
James j. Walker in connection with a
statement mace by the mayor telling
why Cash was removed from his post
The Ewald case has been further
complicated by the disappearance OF
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force
Crater, who was president of the Tam
many Club, to which Healy belonged
and who was to have been a witness
in the Ewald investigation.