Evening star., 1932-06-09
ROOSEVELT TALKS
FRANKLY ON PROBE:
Calls Walker Data Charges
and Indicates Custer
Is Requested.
BY the Associated Press.


ALBANY, N. Y. June 9.-Samuel
seabury's analysis" of the Mayor
Walker case today was fatty termed
q" charges" against the New York City
official by Gov. Roosevelt.
II see no reason for quibbling over
terms" he said as he sat at his desk
with eight volumes OF testimony and
letter from Seabury before him.
He dictated the following statement
to newspaper men:
Late last night there was delivered
at the executive mansion the following
documents:
Il. A letter from Judge Seabury,
which he already had given to the
press.
Plans to Rush Study.
40 A printed memorandum on 81
pages entitled Analysis of Evidence,
which also has been published.
'3. Two large packages containing
eight volumes Of transcript of evidence
totaling 2,474 pages
'All of these will be read as fast as
possible 1t is, of course necessary to
check all of the testimony with the al
legations.
The letter and document termed
analysis constitute, of course. charges.
I see no reason for quibbling over
terms
The Governor said he had not read
the Seabury letter or looked inside the
v0l,mes of testimony. He was asked
Nn2t would Ee his next move.
There is one obvious step" RooSe-
welt answered, and that's to read the
documents
The Governor expects to commence
reading the testimony tonight He will
take the volumes with him to his home
In HYDE Park over the week end and
will devote as much time as possible
to the reading of the 10000 words
compiled by the Legislative Committee
which has been investigating New York
City affairs.
Takes Role of Judge.
1t was pointed out by those close to
the Governor that Mr. Roosevelt, in
labelling the Seabury letter charge"
against Walker, considered himself to
be acting as a judge with Seabury as
the prosecutor.
The text of the Seabury letter was
taken to mean that Seabury had asked
the removal of Walker and would be
prepared to prosecute his allegations
as a quasi public official. :.
The Walker case. packed with poten-
tial political dynamite was dropped on
the Governors doorstep last night, less
than a week after Roosevelt demanded
that the New York Investigators take
action if they believed action warranted.
The Governor was in bed when the
papers. calling Walker unfit" and
likening his explanation Of his funds to
a tin box alibi. were delivered by two
Of Seabury's assistants.
Nobody at the Capitol expects the
case to be concluded before the Demo-
cratic National Convention. The pro-
Cedure in previous similar cases took
several weeks.
Fifteen Counts Listed.
Listing Is counts against the mayor,
Seabury said he made no recommended
ton, and did not speak for the LegSla-
tive Investigating Committee, of which
he is counsel but as private citizen.
Among his conclusions were that the
mayor and Sherwood received $4,000
from firms interested in taXicab legis-
lation; that the mavor held $4,000
bonds of firm which got a city con-
tract; that the mayor acted Improperly
to procure a franchise for the Equitable
Coach Co, and received a $4,000 letter
OF credit from one of the Equitable
agents; that he improperly accepted
'benefcences'; that he failed to ex-
plain satisfactorily the source of de-
posits of S961,000 made by Sherwood ;
that he made no due effort to find
Sherwood; that he failed to produce
complete records of his own transac-
tons; that he permitted the designa-
ton, in city compensation. eases, of doc
tors who split fees with the mayors
brother.
He said that generally since he as
sumed office" the mayors conduct has
been characterized by "malfeasance and
nonfeasance"