Evening star., 1932-08-28
RULING ON WALKER
is DUE TOMORROW,
STALEY INDICATES
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defense, and Mr. Curtin has accountants
studying the work sheets by which Mr..
Seaburys accountants reached the con-
clusion that Sherwoods million dollar
deposits were to great extent Mr..
walkers
Taxicab Deal Probed.
A large part Of this weeks sessions
were devoted to lengthy testimony
proving that the Board of Taxicab Con-
troll, appointed last Spring after Mr..
Seabury discovered that J. A. Sisto,
taxicab security broker, had paid the
mayor $4,000 in bonds, had done
nothing to foster a franchise monop-
oily in the taxicab business. Mr.. Cur
tin brought on his witnesses one after
another. although Mr. Seabury in
sisted they were denying nothing that
he charged and although the Governor
continually brought out that they had
been given power to do more than they
have done.
These witnesses were not croSs-eX-
amined, but others, brought forward to
support the mayors denials of specific
charges. found their positions less easy
when Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Seabury
turned questions upon them.
Hector Fuller, called to tell that the
$4,000 letter of credit taken to Europe
by the mayor in 1927 represented a
common fund Of the party, unrelated to
the Equitable bus officer who paid the
money to the bank for it, found HIM
self having hard time to make the
financial details Of his story hang to-
gether.
Arthus j. w. Hilly, corporation coun-
eel Nol1ad m ovn1ofy1 he cif
whereby doctors of his department split
their fees with the mayors brother,
found himself unable to answer the
Governors hypothetical questions about
the ethics and economics of the matter.
Samuel Underleider, interested with
Sisto in the taxicab affair, who ex-
planned that the S21 900 favor his firm
extended to Sherwood had nothing
to do with the mayor, found the Gov
ernor exclaiming that he had never
heard of any more extraordinary"
financial practices than those attri-
buted to the Ungerleider firm.
Denies knowledge.
Edward L. Stanton, the mayors
former secretary, denied any knowl-
edge of the purchase Of those inter-
state trust shares which were allotted
TO the mayor. but which found their
way into the hands of the Equitable
hackers; he found himself unable to
suggest to the Governor any expla-
nation Of the testimony Of Park Com
missioner Walter r. Herrick. In pri-
vate examination, Herrick said he
bought the stock for the mayor, but
later brought Stanton into the picture
as the one with. whom he probably had
hiS dao lin0c He Indicated III
had been refreshed by a talk with
Stanton.
Then there was Miss Mildred Day,
who succeeded Sherwood in charge of
the mayors bank books, and who testi-
fed that Sherwood had advised many
persons on their income taxes and in
vestments. From her came the ad-
mission that she had been taking care
of Sherwood's dividends, by depositing
them in her bank account and safe de-
posit box in New Jersey, keeping them
from seizure by the New York sheriff.
The last week also brought several
attempts by the mayor to charge be-
fore the Governor that he was the VIC
tim Of partisan plot" all ruled out
by Mr.. Roosevelt as irrelevant.
There also was the long testimony of
John H. Delaney, chairman of the
board Of transportation, and of the three
transit commissioners who killed the
Equitable Coach Co., offered in answer
to the contention that the mayor i'm
properly sponsored the Equitable COM
pany backed by his friend, Senator
John A. Hastings. It is doubtful
whether even the lawyers can under
stand what was developed in all this
Equitable testimony.