The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1913, Page 1

_ Proof of Sipp Bribery Plot Ready for Grand Jury EI EDITION. a lad bdell ONE ‘OENT. ~ PLAN TO INDICT LAWYERS FOR PASSING POLICE BRIBE IN PLOT 10 SILENCE SIPP Whitman to Give Grand Jury Evi- dence of $5,000 From Inspector and Captain That Shrunk to $700 Informer Got. | The high police officers implicated by George A. Sipp in his charges of grafting are getting themselves deeper and deeper into the mire, ac- cording to information which has been gathered by the District-Attorney. Not only do they stand accused of taxing the keepers of disorderly houses, but they are charged with raising a large fund to be used for the purpose of bribing and intimidating witnesses. The total of this fund is said to reach $25,000. Part of it, expend- ed in an endeavor to silence Sipp, has been wasted, but the balance is be- lieved to be ready for use in the case of Fox, the indicted patrolman, and others whose testimony is of importance. Three inspectors and a captain are under investigation. Since Sipp| told his story to the Grand Jury maity new lines of information have been opened. Letters and personal complaints to the District-Attorney give the names of pouceres eit are rales with grafting and also bring | OW HE ENED GETS HER FREEDOM fe expected tu lay before it ramifi- Court Promptly Annuls Mar- Copyright, 1913. by Co. (The New cations of the “.yatem” that may lead to the indictment of one or more law- yers for connection with the briblag of Sipp to flee to Atlantic City and thus prevent his appearance at the police trial of Policeman Engene F, Fox, now under indictment and in the Tombs on tie charge of bribery. Anowier attempt was made to-day t obtain the release of Fox on bail wit as little success ax that made yester-| Ry he security being rejected with- out the formality of going before Jus- tice Goff, | Mra, Ilda Gottesmann of No, 12} West One Hundred and Twenty-ninth street offered as security for the ap i Dearance of the iniicted policeman her| — Tiage Of Girl Who Says | home. The house, which the city es! wusaed at $25.00, is mortxaxed for sxm.| She Was Victimized. | Assistant District-Attorney Lavelle. | | was nn's od to in charge of the Bond Departmen not sativled with Mrs, Gotte equity in the property and retu vonsider it as security, The wom Criminal Courts Bullding iene ( If a little girl can be taken down to the City Hall and there be married Off to some fellow, without her consent, or, | the Btenpasin’ Infae! withput even her knowing she sappointed ; = {was velng 1 T want to know WHITMAN HAS EVIDENCE labout it. If such a thing 1s possible, tt BRIBERY PLOT. |{s outrageous. Frankly, it Is hard for The District-Attorney has in his pos |g eo belleve that such can be the case session what he sposidars almor baci jwith all our modern safeguards. How- ciusive ve of the passage of thi! ove. ay it appears clearly that this Ii bribe money, even to the telephone Was only #ixteen sears ald) when that preceded it, and the code name | si. way married In the City Hall, 1 will used by the conspirators to identify " themselves, Sipp will bo called before|” with these words Justice Hendrick the Grand Jury Monday, in connection with this bribery charge, and bis son, ther with Mrs, pp, all of | id to have complete know!- edge of 1t, will appear as witnesses, The code name “McNulty” will figure proml- nently in the proceeding: Sipp admits that he received $700 from an attorney to leave Now York. ‘The District-Attorney 18 sald to have in his possession tho names of three attorneys through whose ‘hands this} money passed before it finally reached Sipp, to whom it was pald in Newark, lt Is said Sipp has declared the sum | originally sent to him was considerable in excess of $700-—he fixes it at $5,000 —but the balance was diverted to other channels by the various hands through which it Is said to hi Rection brought to a close the mysterious ro- mance of Mrs, Fva Levy Mezan, a iit- tle Turkish girl, with enormous staring | brown eyes, who looked more Itke thir- teen or fourteen years old than the sev- enteen years she claims. Before Jus- tice Hendrick began to be satisted th he had gotten somewhere near the bot- tom of the pecultar case he had sum moned before him Alderman James J Sinith, who, in the nélahborhood of the Marriage License Bureau in the! basement of Clty Hall for the past six- teen yeays has earned the soub: of “the Marrying Alderman;” Clerk P. Joseph Scully and three em- ployees of the City Clerk's office, In brief the plea of the Ittle Ortental was that she had been taken to the @ passed. cy. Mall by her aunt, and “ia L. pointed out tn the! Mezan, a young Turk, beth of whom Listrict Attorney's oflee to-day, re-| hag given her to understand that ® cites that “a person who gives or prom- Was to go through an engagement cere. ives to give to any witness or any per! ony with Megan, and, instead, s ron ABOUT to be called ag a witness, | hag been married to Mezan by Alde any bribe” is guilty of @ felony. The) ay smith, She never lived with Mezai District-Attorney, angry because Sipp rr . she declared, and it was not unt! three was spirited from this jurisdiction, in- Malar That ake faeea mit Lis Shape tends to leave nothing undone to learn | (8 ae. , nony she had been through was one of the truth of Sipp's story of the bribe | Men te ee a ot engagement. tad to tvace the source of this money, natend us WOMAN DEAD IN TRUNK SIPP SAYS INSPECTOR AND CAP. TAIN PAID, A ee ae cation a slink VICTIM OF OWN ACT? inspector and a pollce captain who any naturally feared the revelations he 8. Jan, We To tea would make if he Were forced to test Mphonse Victurine The first lawyer through wi hands a Unk aa al the money passed Is said to bo friendly | jeura nim enter the house last Tes | with both the Inspector and tie captain | Aa the caves dropped over bot lay \the holt of the old fashioned lock slip into its place and in a few hours the woman Was dead from suffocation This 1s the theory of Medical Tx- aminer F, C. (Hurd, who performed an autopsy to-day after a thred days search whom Sipp named, while the go-between was an associate of his, Tho third law. yer, whose name Sipp has used openly, aad known Sipp for some time, The Distriot-Attorney has heard that | how fence or jevally had corporations as their c before the negotiations were completed, f *Pantinued 90 Beoond Tage) ‘by the police tad revealed the death ‘af the woman, The : Circulation Books ks Open to All.” | The Press t York Wort NEW BANK COMPETITION “NOT GOOD FORM,” DECLARES SCHIFF Wa'l Street Magnate Says Mor- gan Does Not Invade the Field of His Firm. THE USE OF SYNDICATES They Are Called In to Under- write Risks on Securities As- sumed by Bond Houses. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Jacob I. Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, was the chief witness at the money trust in- vestigation this afternoon. He gave the other members of the firm as Mortimer I. Sonim, his dtto H. Kuhn, Pant M. and Fellx M. Warburg and Jerome J. Manauer, He described the method of Suing securities for corporations as Practiced by his house. He sald after his firm had agreed to issue the securi- ties, syndicates were formed to under- write the risk assumed by the bond “The object of the syndicate ts to take over the gecurities if you fail to sell them?" asked Mr, Untermyer, ‘Yes, that's it.” said Mr, Schift. Banks and trust companies, he said, were the participants in these under- writing syndicates, Mr. Schiff said that about seventy-five to one hundred and twenty-five con- cerns were on @ list of participants from time to time invited to take part in underwriting syndicates, MORGAN DOES NOT INVADE FIELD OF HIS FIRM. “What is the evates of the banking | business In connection with bond issues?” asked Mr, Untermyer, “It is not considered good form," said Mr. Schiff, “to create undue tnterfer- mpetition by a banking firm.” He added that big banking houses gen- nts that no other bond house would en- deavor to take issues from the banking firm recognized as the usual fiscal agent of the corporation. Mr, Schiff sald there was a shurp Valry between his firm and sy but he knew of no instance five years when Morgan & Co. vaded the field of Kuhn, or vice versa. iff said that national bank and antes’ officers were not offered ipation In syndicates formed by Kuhn, to . but he belived banks and trust co! # ¥uould be allowed had Loeb & Vo. pan to participate in those underwriting sya- dicates. Individual concentration of wealth is not dangerous; corporate concentration is; Dut there should be no fear of such @ menace, as concentration would break down of ite own weight, wae ‘Mz, Sohift’s opinion. Me said he haa observed growing concentration of Wealth, but was sot concerned over it. That o bank's life could be crushed ont by “too much law” and there is now “gutficient safety for depositors in Wa- tion! banks,” were other opinions ex- pressed by Schiff, After a tong discussion Mr. Untermye: aaked “Then you think that oational bank aly id be allowed to do business as syn Alcate Underwriters, promoters and is- wuing hous “Yes, T would allow them to do any | legitimate banking business without re striction excepy the rest ful Management. 1 belie directors pots should de borrowing from the banks, exerpt thos firma which have partners who ave directors, should be allowed ty porrow from the bank Mr. Schiff maid that he thought m nority stockholders should be represent. ed inythe management of banks, bat he} did not think they should have that representation as a matter of law That the present concentration © money and credit !8 a potential “men tr to the country” was asserted House Money Trust ‘ *) George Mo tivy 4 mnitinental and <b Nathon | that he knew of the “trend toward co. centration of money and credits’ and that he thought it ; “1 ain opposed tw the concontrat of any sort of power,” he said, “I be Neve that concentration to the point it has already gone Is a menace. In say- % (Continued on Second Vase sew cerhaton YORK, | THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, FOXHALL B KEENE WHOSE FATHER LEFT ALL TO HIS WIDOW. KEENE ESTATE, | NEARS12 000 00, ALL FOR WIDOW She Is to Provide for Son’s and | Daughter’s Shares, Finan- cier’s Will Directs, AMOUNT IS NOT STATED. Lawyer Says There Is “Par- ticular Reason” to Refuse to Make Estimate Now. The late James R. Keene, financier and breeder and racer of fine hors | who died a fortnight azo, left behind him a fortune of between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000, His widow, Mrs, Sara Jay Keene, is made sole residuary legates of this extate under the will and upon her is left the sole responsibility of providing for Foxhall Keene and Mrs, ‘Talbot J. Taylor, the fluancier'a two children, FOXHALL KEEN NE The exact amount of the Keene estate | ~~ FNAL RULING OF U.S. GOVERNMENT |ford, the lawyer, who was Mr. Neone’s Personal counsel during his lifetime and who is one of the three executors under the terms of the will and who Maire the will for probate in the Surrog at Mineola to-day. His accompanying affidavit made only Li ibeller of ree George Will Be Deported on Secretary following provision: }. U7 “I have intentionally omitted making Nagel’s Order. any special provision for the benefit of - my fon Foxhal! and my daughter Jessie (Mrs, Talbot J. Taylor) relying upon my wife to hereafter make such Provision the forma! statement that there was no Teal estate and that to the best of his for them as may ibe proper, enjoining upon her, however, to be guided in this Court belief the value of the personal property is more than $10,000, WIDOW TO PROVIDE FOR SON AND DAUGHTER. The final clause in the will makes the WASHINGTON, Jan. 16-Sevretary Nagel of the Department of Commerce and Labor decided this afternoon that Edward F. Mylius, the Engiish journal- int convicted of Hbelling King George, and all other matters relating to my 7 {estate by the Judgment of + y executors, | Cannot be admitted to the United Staten a | because the crime for which he was in whom I have the greatent dig arnt There ie tides Kullty was not a political Gehrmann of N Bast One Hundred : : nd Thirty-ninth-street; Charles J. Flynn} T* bees iy eer copstiadd bie of No, 981 Kast One Hundred and Sov.| retary Nagel finished reviewing the ntieth street and George Wright Hinck-| {nding of the Ellis Island board, Mylius 'y of No. li? West One Hundred and] Will be deported on the next steamer after the Ellis Island authorities re- celve Mr. Nagel's decision. Mylius was found guilty in England of having libelled King George by pub- lication of @ *tory in the Liberator that Seventy-ninth street. Though Mr. Hanford refused to make any definite atatement in regard to the total value of the Keene ostate, it was learned from a source intimate With the affairs of Mr. K that the for-| the sovereign had contracted @ morgan- tune which had auffered so many vi-| atic marriage at Gilraitar with the ciasitudes In Wall street during tater | daughter of a British Admiral prior to years would not exceed $12,000,000 and] his manriage with Queen Mary oa sateen is rep JURY WILL DECIDE ceoeseees..| FNOCTMENT OF resented by the value of the stallions, colts and racing and brood mares which are now either racing abroad or are on the Keene stock farm in Kentucky state, which 1 know,” said Mr. Hane ford after the Mitng of the will for probate. ‘There Ix a particular reason at this time why [ should not reveal Question of Whether Grand the amount; but I @hall not give that) © * vary between * sald the tnter- which is nearest Juror Lives in Jersey Is Up to Them. © $2,000,000 estimate aid Mr. Hanford After ordering that ttendan his be settled 1 | tho testator left torhis wife or her heirs Assistant United tates Distriet-At- Guiler appeared before Judge vis wflerngon in the United States | District Court and demanded a jury trial aa to whether Albert A. Stephens, ‘all the residue, real or personal,” of Pe nae ata stares ig | members of the December Grand Jury \t 4 aNcotn has aa jis a res! of the Southern Distrtet Jof New York samuel W \ paliieg amual’ the 1 must be neceded to ft eat ae ; t s the one which Indicted J vt wit for vielation — ya t rman law, « wl for the dee} Vata For to Day Se te validity of the Indictment. They charwked that Albert A. Stephens, one of rors, la in fa 4 resident of Jersey City, and net, therefore, elt. #ible to serve as a juror in this juris diction. Werner ie tas tat Webtoot tinted A tay the Government replied with Gaiet We Achas, ‘Marra & "Condi eee | the statement that Stephens we “duly 1913, A bis Circulation Book Books Open to All.” 22 PAGES PRICE ONE OENT. STRIKING WATERS BALKED IN EFFORT TO TIE UP HOTELS Insurgents Vi the Largest Hostelries and Try to Call Out All Help. NO WALKOUT ORDERED. Committee Deliberates, While I, W. W. Leaders Declare Trouble Is Certain. Thirty of the International Hotel Workers’ Union deliberated — beiind locked doors this afternoon whether or not it would be policy for them to & general strike of all hotel help in Now York, from ohefs and pastry cooks, walters and onmibuses to portors and While this committ wax In session, resting on Its oars, ap- Parently, bands of agitators made the rounds of the iargeut hotels the strike sefiment where thei any trace of It and striving to produ auch sentiment where there waa none. Altogether it did not look as if the much-heralded walkout would material- accortling to-achedule, for the axl tatots foumt unexpectedly olttily re- ceptions from the walters and cooks, upon whom the brunt of their verbal attacks. was thrown, ATTEMPT TO INCITE WAITERS AT THE PLAZA, Two attempts were made to incite walters at the Plaga to atrking heat, but not a man would agree to walk out, even when they were told—as other walters in her places were being told that they would be the only ones to stick to thelr jobs. ‘The regular news channels of the strikers seemed to be clogged, but I. W. W. oMoctals, who are taking « leading part in the strike-making, were willing to asmiro reporters in an undertone that certainly the strike would be called either to-night or within the, next couple of days, And then It would be not only the cooks and walters who would leave their stations, they said, but porters and elevator runners and bell bo: and even diminutive pages and chambermaids, Whatever the revult of the commit- tee's comitations and whatever the o tion of the waiters, the ho agers are prepared. Up wu roofs of practically every big hotel in New York there are new non-paying guests ready to step at a moment's notice into deserted kitchens and din- ing rooms and elevators and turn the wheels of the caravanserios’ machin- ery, Put the managers do not be- Heve they will have to call upon the emergency crews. “CONSTERNATION” OF EMPLOY- ERS NOT ON CARDS. ‘The waiters and other employees are aware that thelr going would not cause the consternation among their employers for which thet. W. W. leaders hope, and are displaying a desire to “stand pa Fitsabeth @. Flynn, an I. W. W. or- kanizer, announced that the balloting on tee question “to strike or not to wed to one ratio in Lies Pig a ably pete in the 4,000 votes already counted, Only 6,000 were cast. Refore the Committee of Thirty went into its secret session the room at ) 72 West Thirty-sixth street—atrike headquarters—was carefully xearchod for concealed splex and dictagraphy. At last night's meeting four men sup- posed to be agents of the h prietors were ejected from Bi qualified resident of the borough of Manhattan.” Mr. Gutler informed the court that tls phase of the case will be brought to trial as svon ae it can be put on (he calendar, This move of the Government does away with the necessity of an argu: ment on the subject to-morrow, If { comention the defense, that Stephens wan aresident of Jersey City, had been opted ax a fact: Judge Mack would ve owen called upon to decide whether 1 state of affairs Invaildated the Indletment w othe Jury will decid Hiephens's reatdence, If it gaya he {vee in New York the indictinen stand, and if it dectdes he if not a t af the Soutnern District of York, the court then will de New whether such fact invalidates the indic ment friar ey G00 HARLEM BLAZES SET FOR ARSON TRUST, FIREBUG CONFESSES “Izzy” Stein, Brought Here From Sing Sing, Gives a Startling Story of How the Swindlers Collected $300,000 on Fictitious Losses. GRUTZ'S BAIL INCREASED FROM $15,000 TO $25,000 Agents and Brokers Connected With Insurance Companies Implicated by the Firebug’s Revelations. A story more sensational than those which shocked New York fn the great arson exposure of sixteen years ago was told this afternoon to Assistant District-Attorney Weller and Fire Marshal Prial by “Izzy” Stein, alias “Izzy, the Painter,” a professional firebug, who is serving 8 long term in Sing Sing. It will take Stein two or three days to complete his history of fires started at the behest of the arson syndicate, but in three hours this afternoon he told of a list which retted the conspirators nearly $300,000 in money collected from insurance companies for fictitious losses. RACING INTERESTS ASK LEGISLATURE FOR A NEW LAW Commission’s Report Suggests Measure Relieving Directors From Betting Violations. After Stein had recited his experience in being employed by the arson syndi- cate and had told of starting « few fires at the instigation of George Grats, of No, 42 Kast One Hundred and Second street, Mr. Weller and Marshal Prial senta hurry call to the Tombs ofr Grets, who has been under arrest under $16,000 bail on an indictment charging him with arson, Gruts was rearraigned before Justice Goff and Mr. Weller said that Information he had received trom Stein Justified him tn asking that Gruts’s bali be raised to $25,000, STEIN PROBABLY SET 600 BLAZES IN HARLEM. ‘The increase was granted and Grats ‘was taken back to the Tombs, Marshal Prial said that from the way Stein started off he thought it would be ehewn preliminary the collection of a fake lass from @ fre insurance company, Stein told of fives which ALBA present wate of affairs continued the breeding and ment of thoroughbred borses will en- tirely cease and the thoroughbred will disappear from the United States,” de- clared the New York State Racing Com-, mission in ite report to the Logisla- ture to-day. According to the Commission's re- port the race track i# necessary to keep @ thoroughbred horse at his best and they recommend that a law be en- acted protecting the directors of the racing association in conducting @ race, and likewise the State Racing Commis- stoners themselves, from belng made Hable tn connection with the recording of bets by third persons. The Commission says in part: “With the criminal law in respect of Kambllng ax it‘, and properly enforced | on and off the race course, it may be possible for race tracks to be opened, but not if the officers of @ corporation duly licensed to conduct a race meeting are to be held oriminally able for vio- lations of the gambling law « mmitted by, other persons. wml “Where there is horse racing it te in evitable that there will be some betting, | STEIN AS FIREBUG GOT $100 A Inasmuch as betting and wagering is WEEK, not criminal, why, as @ matter of com-| Stein, when the syndicate was at its mon fairness, should officials of a race urse be held reponaible for the se- cret record of a bet? That matter is ‘one beyond thelr control, Only nine days’ racing were conduct- r the auspices of the I records showed that the tioned occurred at the pinese and he meniipned. Gtein, as his story up, is adding the nemes of scores Dersons to the already long list in possession of the District-Attorney, their whereabouts, Stetn implicates not only Gruts, But other insurance agents and brokers, some of whom are regularly connected with fire insurance companies. His story Koes a long way to confirm the statement of Fire Commissioner Jobn- son that 2 per cent, of the fires of New York are incendiary. Stein, known as “Iasy the ne because he posed as a painter in that he might buy engine and other inflammable Uquids without arousing suspicion, was the chief “mechani” of the Harlem arson syndicate, There were six “mechanics or fre starters the insurance companies, His earnings averaged about $100 a week, alewion lest aud Stein was caught sA-COUNLEY ta to serve a Commi t is signe: y | tweptyelour. ¥ James W. Wedeworth, chalrmun; dicted with Stein, confessed, implicating fort and HL ALBANY, Jan. repealing the oth Knapp. 4 number of persons, including Gruts and Newmark, brokers and adjusters, Indictments were returned Gruts, Newmark and Stein Stein sent word from Sing was willing to make @ 16,—Two Mls ° boxing la prohibiting the publication of odds, were introduced to-day by Anemblyman Allen, These bills are being jpromoted by the coe } cue