The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1906, Page 5

THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1900, No Opposition to Plan Ex- \ iE; B OT Ria . pected When Matter Is Three Chinaman al A ton Slain In Tong Feud: Taken Up March 20. FAVORED BY OFFICIALS. Health Board Believes Removal of Dives a Sanitary Necessity—How Criminals There Defy Police. </| p My The City Record to-day contains an , Advertisement giving notice to all in- ferested in the good of the city to Gppear before the Local Board of the Bowling Green District of Manhattan on Tuesday, March 20, at a public hearing which the board fs to give at the City Hall on the question of mak- ing a park out of the land now cov- ered by Chinatown, The Evening World proposed the + improvement last week, and a gen- eral demand was at once apparent that it be put through without unnecessary delay. No person has yet been heard to raise a dissenting voice, and at the Present’rate the movement will be) £0 sirong before the day of the pub- llc hearing that opposition would be sheer foolishness Inspectors of the Board of Health a@re going through Chinatown and dig- ging around in the dives of Chaham Square, Mott and Mulberry — streets, Fathering data for the President of the Board, and as soon as this is ready, and data already in the hands of the board can be collated, Dr. Darl- ington promises it will be given to the public through The Evening World —that is, as much of {t as will bear publication. Criminals of the District. The criminals who infest the district @re forced to vome together for mutual Protection and concealment. sult of an attempt to carry out the tdict against Lee and his followers. Organized to Blackmail. Tom Lee is the head of the Hip Sing Tong and Mock Duck {s one of the| leading Ughts In the On Leong Tong, | which has posed as a refonm associa- ton, | These are only two of the many ass>- TEAR OUT DIVES OF CH CALENDAR OF Wednesday, Feb. 28--The Even: The Chinese societies are of two! ciations, but as they been prominently the improvement. kinds, First and foremost are the! before the public since the reward for| criminal combinations, which under] \...ng Tom Lee was posted in the one pretext or ano.her have incorpor- ated and are housed in regular head- quarters, where they openly carry on their business. No one except those thoroughly afraid of them can under- stand thelr laisuage, and Ney are consequently ex¢mpt. They can offer rewards for the murder of persons who bave incurred their displeasure, and tne police cannot get evidence of the streets of Chinatown, taey may be taken as fair samples of the rest. | ‘They are nothing more or less than blackmail organizations, and among the | Chinese their funotions are recognized, And those who gain prominence as | blackmatlers and thugs gain at the, same time @ certain consideration and respect among them. A peace was patched up between the | Friday, March 2—Commissione: as a necessary police measure for t @ broad and liberal plan.” conspiracy or of the murder when it} {wo factions Just a few days ago, | city demends'the improvement. " is merely an agreement to di-| ia_committed. vide the district on new lines and When the statement was made by| carry on thelr criminal trade without | hi ew: oo | interfering with each other. They } fed been offered for the life of Tom | have fooled "the America juare mi | helped to patch up. the ostensible I vertised by the local board in all th Lee, the Mayor of Chinatown, it was| peace, but they are laughing at ‘“Mell- MAKE A PARK ON THE SITE. mr \ & AN " Mos A gi Ny INATOWN ; THE CAMPAIGN. ing World made public demand for Thursday, March 1—Mayor McClellan declared himself in favor of |] it as a public improvement needed by all the people for many reasons. r Bingham indorsed the movement he suppression of crime. Sald “It is Saturday, March 3—Petition of property owners pr:sented to the Borough President, and he announced his approval of the ovement. Monday, March 5—Commissioner of Health Darlington declared he favored the plan for sanitary reasons. He believes the health of the The local board of the Bowling Green district, in which the proposed park lies, decided upon a public hearing on the proposition. Tuesday, March 6—Publi¢ hearing for Tuesday, March 20, was ad- © official papers. taken by the majority of the white can oe ) sie tana piancion, ways to hoodwink the authorities. population as 8 nage Joke. Puvocn| That these societies are terrible eave ste: anything else. Mock | realities is testified by a long list of | of police eraft. It is on record in 1 Duck {s now in the Tombs as the re- murders. It is written in the annals! the ruin of business in Chinese whole- sale houses. when the war between them was at its height a year ago. ail Mi D Fi ‘they are facts, and their existence depends absolutely upon the continua- von of crime in Chinese quar.ers 30 Segrogated that graft can be collected from ‘the perpetrators. Conditions essential to Chinese vices are just what are needed to protect the violent criminals of the country. Tell the police that a cracksman of international reputation {s {n this coun- try and they will look for him in the dives of Chatham Square and Mott street. Headquarters of Yeggmen. A saloon not far from the corner of Mott street and Chatham Square |s the recognized headquarters of the yegsmen of the United States, The leaders of this most dangerous class of criminals can be time a big job ts not being puiled o:t \requiring their personal attention. How Tongers Attention ‘olice Feplod a ‘LOCAL BOARD CALLS PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CHINATOWN PARK f iverled The OF ve Grackers, They congregate in this place, and in| ‘they will find | {ts back rooms and upper floots gam- ble. drink and, tell their tales of crime. |‘There they receive reports from thelr stalls whenover a big deal Is to be pulled off, and noi a day passes but the rob- bery of some country bank or post-of- fice is planned in that, place. These men carry. thelr nitro-glycerine with them in bottles strapped to thelr | bodies. ‘Diey carry revolvers. and are | ready at ali ti ies to use them. They do not brawl !n the place that shelters | | do not wish to discredit: their own | clearing-house, Murders that have been PLAN done in Philadelphia and Chicago have been planned jn that dive, and the worst criminals In the rogues’ galleries of the world can be do ly seen there drinking and spending with a lavish hand the “swag' they have gained by robbery or murder. These are three of the organized gangs with definite purposes which have thelr headawurters In the limits where a vark Is to be made, and when they are driven out they will have no other place in the clty of New York where the same opportunities for concealment and protection. _————— Train Kills a Motorman. Crossing a traci on the elevated rall- road yards at One Hundred and Fifty- ninth street and Eighth avenue, Joseph Hoffman, thirty-three years old, of No. 518 East One Hundred and Highty-first street, was run down by an incoming found there at any | them because they fear arrest, and they | train and instantly killed. Hoffman was @ motorman and had just come in from duty. PARDON THE JURY-FIXER WHO CONFESSED AND BRING “HIGHER-UP” CRIMINALS TO JUSTICE. | rs | Many Sign Evening World | Petition to Be Sent | to Gov. Higgins. | Pardon Tillinghast! TO GOV. FRANCIS W. HIGGINS: I respectfully request that you pardon William H. Tillinghast, whose confession exposed the Metropolitan Street Railway Company’s iniquitous methods of jury-fixing and who was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment in Blackwell's Island penitentiary for imperson- ating a juror. 1 sign this petition understanding that Tillinghast stands ready to go before the Grand Jury and give testimony that will result in bringing to justice the criminals “higher up.” NAME. REACH REAL CULPRITS.| Popular Demand that Punishment | BerMeted Out to the Big | Corrupters of Justice. ADDRESS........ Sign the above petition and send !t to The Evening World or direct to Gov. Higgins at Albany, The rnovement started by The Eve- ning World to have pardoned William H. Tillinghast, the self-confcesed pro- fessional juorr, who fs serving a three preliminary hearing In the Tombs Police Court in the Henderson “jury Imperson- ating’ matter, has changed his office |address. He was formerly at at | Liberty street, but !s now at No. 60 | Wall street. His upper lip trembled as |he talked about Tillinghast. He was jevasive. Tillinghast, from his cell in the Blackwell Island Penitentiary. charged McLeod with having deserted him, and sald that he would like to know why. “When did Tillinghast first come to you for advice,” was asked. “Months ago," said McLeod. “Ho got afraid when there was an upheaval in the City Court. He wanted to go-and tell what he knew, he said, and I ad- vised him to keep in the background.” “But he wanted to confess?” “Oh, yes: but that does not signity.”” “He did mot at that time?” months!’ sentence in the Blackwell's Ielend Penitentiary as a penalty for his revelations on jury-fixing, to-day found an echo all over the greater city. Gov, Higgins's morning mail at the State Capitol brought many petitions Fequesting that the victim of an ap- parent con:piracy be immediately set free, in order that those higher up in criminal practices be punished. Petitions ar2 pouring into the office of the Evefiing World, to be forwarded to the Governor of the State. The con- sensus of opinion heard In places where people of thought congregate was that only the pardoning of Tillinghast would be effective in carrying prosecution to the real culprits. Among the letters sent to Gov. Hig- gins was one from A. Edward Wood- ruff, a lawyer, who Js greatly interested in this case. Mr. Woodruff writes the Governor: “Not In Interest of Justice.” “In the matter of the Metropolitan Reasons why Tillinghast should be pardoned: He had reformed and ceased his evil practices, He is willing to testify against the criminals higher up. His imprisonment stands as an object lesson—punishment for the crime of confession. In the face of what happened to Tillinghast, who would now dare confess either knowledge or participation in jury-fixing. Let Tillinghast be freed, and other smaller criminals may turn State's evidence against the greater criminals to serve the ends of justice. His ninety-year-old mother is blind, helpless, destitute and wholly dependent upon him for support. a Street Railway's interference with the| inquiry instituted by Judge Seabury, proper administration of justice in the|of the City Court, in respect to what city of New York, as to which I re-| had been done in the City Court, th cently wrote you, soliciting your ald| Metropolitan “fake juror,” Tillingha to have a proper investigation through|on a subpoena issued by Judge Sea- @ committee of the Legislature, may| bury, attended before him and gave your attention to the fact, a8/the same statement of facts he had showing the diMculties surrounding | previously sworn to, in possession of any proper Investigation of the mat-|the District-Attorney, and upon the ter here In New York, that, on @Nn/ said Tillinghast’s return home from safa examination he was immediately arrested on a warrant issued at the Instance of the District-Attorney on tho pieayune charge of having imper- sonated one Henderson, a juror, and secured his discharge from jury duty. upon which charge the sald juryman Henderson had already been fined $25. “There is a very general feeling in the ofty that the arrest of ‘Tilling- hast, under the circumstances, was not in the Interest of justice, and I can- not explain to you better the feeling existing here than to submit to you ‘two inolosed editorials, one from The World and the other from the Tribune. “Would not Your Excellency, in the Interest of proper administration of justice in this cluy, set a day in the near future when you would be willing to give a hearing to those who think that under the peculiar circumstances of the cave Your Excellencey could properly grant a pardon to sald Tillin- aghast?’ Lawyer Henry M. Stevenson, of No. 76 William atreet, who has been selected by Judge Seabury to sort out the evi- dence, said to-day, that his work was of such a) character that there would be no publicity until the last milestone had been passed. Mr, Stevenson, under the qincumsetanes of his position, could not discuss the Tillinghast case, aL, OR!: Look! - Somebody has dro) © watch and chain. Who d su will find it? That's difficult to Hh eaghet York streets fixe si nears erowdec. Will 1 who picked it up? Probably not unless :he advertises it Chu wens DI ' New York ‘Pilog haat ep to the thie 4 “Later you accompanied him to the | office of the District Attorney?" “I was not with him when he ap- | peared there,” replied Mr. McLeod, as| if dismissing the, subject. | ‘But you were seen alt the Dictrict- | Attorney's office and in the company of Tillinghast?” was insisted. “That was the second time he went there,” admitted the lawyer, | Here McLeod changed his tactics, and deeply concerned in the ‘railroading’ his confession, will anewer any question you ask " he volunteered, “Tell what passed between yourself and Deputy Assistant District-Attorney Nathan N, Smythe.” Was Promised Immunity. “Well,” replied McLeod, ‘Smythe sald to me that he had pledged Tillinghast thet if he (Tillinghast) dealt fairly with the Distriot-Attorney's office, Jerome would deal fairly with him. I ‘told Sinythe that such a pledge was no pledge st all. said, munity from prosecution?” ‘It does,’ said Smythe to me in re- ply. then’ told Tullin i t ‘was his second had told nearly al! le knew on the first trip, 1 ‘think was a chump to {get into the thing, “But he was your client?” sald McLeod. vist of yours to the District- office Was before election?” was. Hisg Smythe was glad to get the | statement of Tillinghast?" st “He was delighted, and told me 80," M: Inghast deltv up © kne it had talked over ly, alt his home in street?” ly—only informally," said knew what he knew?" » “Fem! “Why did you not t the Ot ie ON ae cae no! was } hy were you not Rotined lon't_ know. Assistant District. had my telephone DI | sought to make it appear that he was, | of the professional juryman who had. confessed and had been punished for! 1| feedin, “Then you were not Interested?" “It would have been of no use; the man was sentenced.” “But you had been with Tillinghast to the District-Attorney's office “when he went there to ald justice, and did you not think there was something sus- Plclous in the rushiig of his case on the trumped-up charge? “It was suspicious, all right." con- cluded Mr MeLeod. his “upper tip trembling violently, did not want to mix In the matter.” L. EB. Julian, until August, 1904, chier ve for the Metropolitan ‘Street R y Company, claims credit for the whole exposure” of Metropolitan meth- ods at jury fixing. He was met on the Seventli noor of the Equitable Life ulding, Mr, Julian ts now a private detective, “Learning in July, 1905, that an effort was being made by representatives of the company to make a scapegoat of me," he sald, ‘in October I called upon Chief Cierk Hennebery, of the District-Attorney’s office, then’ in charge of Mr. Jerome's political headquarters at the Gilsey House, I revealed to him the substance of conversations I had with Stanley 8. Bagg, who also was formerly an investigator for the company. “Eight days elapsed, and then I_got a letter asking me to’ call at the Dis- trict-Attori As- sistant D! political campaign ‘fi deiec Railw 's office to see Deputy. rict-Attorney Smythe. The was then red hot. to go Into the mat- mythe about Tilling- hast, whose name I had got from Baeg- Later, at the Union Square Hotel, Where Smythe was running part of the campaign I gave him Tillinghast’s ad- dress. I ‘had located him with the as- stance of Bagg. Tillinghast was then subpoenaed.’ Juan admits that, had not Tilling- hast hapvened to bea willing witness, all of his information would have counted for naught. He says that in January Bagg, who also made a con- fession, came to him and wanted the Whole matter of publicity dropped. As the Metro; treet way Com- fany had settled a-case in which he had an interest for $1,750. Jullan admitted that he aided in the procuring of Tillinghast’s confession for publication and had accepted a re- tainer for the service. How Confession Was Used. The Tillinghast, confession, in the vernacular, has “done noble.” It has | been working hard for the past four months, No sooner did it come Into ex- listence than the crows began to fly. For four months the crows have been upon it, The poor old confes- sion, like {ts author, is beginning to show the effects of the hard usage it hag recelved. jerome was will ter then. I told fere are a few of the many purposes it has serve It enabled Stanley 8. Bagg, a former Investigator for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, who !s now missing from his home in Mount Vernon, to ex- tract $1,750 from the coffers of the traction company as settlement of a case against the company In which he was interested, It brought a good price to Louls E. Julian, former investigator for the Metropolitan Street allway, who claims to be its creator and who sold it In ite original form, almost Intact, for publicity purposes. It brought uneasiness to the ‘men higher up” of the Metropolitan Street Raitway Company. It served as a basis for a resolution Introduced before the State Bar Asso- elation for an investigation into the methods pursued in thelr litigation by the street rallway companies of New ‘ork. It has started an investigation by the Ir te r It was the basis upon which Judge Samuel Seabury began his investigation of the crime of jury fixing, which is now ressing in secret chambers of the City Court. Served All but One End, inghast confession ap- nearly every ri | aoa nour hag | prettiest What's the use confessing when Prison for the small fry—never Every little grafter mute and «i Terror to the Small Ones is the People thought “they'd” put him Seems to us confessions are the Awful for the Small Ones is the Wicked little small fry, who wou! Just to go to prison and be trea Till you think confession might Prison for the Small Ones, says Never will be bursting to tell all What’s the Use? BY WALTER A. SINCLAIR. a prison’s your reward— for the overlord? What’s the use confessing (though a lot of fellows could)— Why expose the System when ‘‘they” hand it to you good? Jently now shakes— Sleeper when he wakes. Never was a Big One handed “his” when he confessed; Even Mr. Canfield was just scolded and assessed. under double bars and locks. (Little Gumshoe Jacobs got a job of splitting rocks.) very worst of breaks— Sleeper when he wakes. ld hand themselves the bribes, ited to our jibes! Funny how the money lasts—always have a roll— be useful to your soul. This you find too late to be the worst of all mistakes— the Sleeper when he wakes. Silence is both golden and your Hberty as well. Never listen, Small Fry, when your consciences say “Tell!” Be a Big Offender; own the company and you you ever knew, Small Ones, your confessions will be pigeon-holed as fakes, Though you're sent to prison by the Sleeper when he wakes. been carted practically everywhere but Gran ury. ‘orititashast is anxious and willing to tell what he knows to the Grand Jury, He can name the man who introduced |him to an agent of the traction road. He can tell who pald him bribes. He | need only repeat his previous statements this time to the Grand Jur: But un- leas he !s pardoned his confession will continue to grind the private rather than the public axe. 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