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USHIS PRESSED PRESSED. 3 TO TELL WHO OT Asks ‘his Valse of Captain to Force New Confession. X IS CORROBORATED. prevrrryrfrrererrtirtreyertirr tT ert scree Collectors Named by Pa-| trolman May Show Trail to Inspector, | Aiming always at “the man higher! ” Mietrict-Attorney Whitman and (dew to-day were dually preparing lay Defore the hurriedly called session the Extraordinary Grand Jury next y evidence on which they will ask | indictment of Police Captain W. Walsh, on the charge of twibery. Then, if Walsh, who Is re- ferted to be critically ill with heart tgeuble, wishes, he may avail himnef the immunity bath such as will be Rene Policeman Eugene Fox. But, dm 19 Une case of Fox, no immunity wit | can “de-| iiver” a “man inigher up." ‘Walsd |s suid to be wavering. He ha: Net reported to lis prectnct—now in 8. 1,—for several months. | 3 Ie te on “sick leave.” He did not ap- | ¢ ir When he was suminoned before the | { rresererryeryrerrsr iyi rT) a. | “#] an Aldermanic committee because . iiiness. His relatives have declared | % % 1€ would Kil iim if he were arrested. | @ To avoid arrest. P lt of only one © $ against hum R re 4 come @ witners for the State District-Attorney Whitman tn reaching | ‘ the Read of the grafting in the Police Departwent. GTHER WITNESSES TO TESTIFY AGAINST WALSH. ples of guilty of accepting bribe ¥, this afternoon met District- Attorney Whitman with his brother te pamee in the hands of the prosecuter a mage of evidence which, in aMdavit ‘Will be used in preparing for the @f the John Doe Grand Jury ¥, when an indictment will be against Police Captain Thomas W, ‘on the charge of bribery, Dy Attorney Whitman has od-| 4. what he believes is positive cor 1 A of Fox's story frum George former proprietor of the Bal- te mon ia Harlem, and from Thomas | ? Dorian, manager of the Avanel, to “ it fo jundred and Twenty-|Deople’s caso against him. precinct, and that this mon- | ten-year prison sentenc: é z a 4 in the datter’s office in the | District-Attormey Whitman n, ‘Dorian will swear, it is that they had jong con- jone with Walsh on several occa in which the question of paying money" for running the die- hotel were discussed. It'is said was 20 bold in his dealings with Dortan that he actually “did with them bimself—that he amount of graft they must and that he told them, personally, 2 pay Fox, “his man.” ‘This, it is believed in the District ttorney’ Fi 5 iH Groehl. 4 his own collector in the inap ii | if é H i ‘ aT id Whitman in his search for the polics official's wealth, On @ salary of $2, @ year Walsh is said to have grown opmlent. WAL8H NOT TOO ILL TO 8) LAW FIRM. That Walsh's physical condition, de- clared by hin family to be most critical, {a mot nearly so bad as had been re- ned from Justice Hendric De set aside in the meantime. Plan of the majority of District-Atiorney'ns office to-day, It was| tracts through this afternoon, Junction papers arrived, A meeting was held at 3 0’ afternoon in room 30 of the he had, within the. past week, visited office of a well known firm of law- and sought to retain them to resent him in the event of his subse: auent indictment. For years Walsh and Sipp—against whom the police later lodged charges—were boon companions, was engaged with tate tran: , frequently neau of Sipp on one occasion was Walsh's com- panion on a tour of the palatial hotela along the East Coast of Florida during the height of the social season. When Sipp, bribed to leave New ‘Yerk, was finally induced to come back, after the Grand Jury had thrown out as unreliable the police charges against him, he was angry at the manner in whieh the “System” had, as he ex- pressed it, “double-crossed” him. When he went before the Grand Jury with another plan to extend the new in Queens to Flushing were passenger in the ton-| The I. R. T. contracts, which fully exam action ‘The motion was adopted. guilty of bribery, he was specific in| by Public Service inspecto: hie charge that Capt. Walsh was a| “Are you Mr. Willcox?” srefter and that Fox was his graft} intruder. gollector. But against Walsh, his} Mr. Willcox admitted his “THIRD DEGREE” TO FOX TO GET lewal paper. , AT WALSH. Why,” remark ‘The District-Attorney was compelies, | tone of surprive, for the time being, to pigeonhole the| Mr. Wilkeox was right. eharges against Capt, Walsh, though ne| tion papers were sent placed private detectives to work ou| Whitney to be copied, the case, He ‘believed that, in addition ty the evidence they secured, he could werk up u dovble-riveted case again: ‘Walsh if he could convict Fox, and for time his energies were devoted along Abat line, The result was that Fox, in sqnse, get 4 startling “third degree” trial called Mr to only to the BR, 1, cont were attached to th tracts ae well, received from the printer only time before and had not yet been ca re were almost ready for “I move," said Commissioner fama of the majjority favoring the fama of the majority favoring the jentity former friend, Bipp could not produce| visitor thereupon dumped down bef oe corroboration he produced against | the chairman of the Commission a pile of documents and served him with a ots, « PADEAEEDO4 044 4-48 O08 FO HOE FOO OED EE: ormer Helen Gould Embarking : + With Husband on Wedding Trip Photographed Especially for The Evening World by a Staff! One: Fox weakened | vered by him personally to}and made a complete confession to | and As. sistant District-Attorney Frederick J. | Fox told the District-Attorney it was common report that an inspector ha ection dis- man! trict, who forced the resorts to pay stood to him an additional 20 per cent, SERVICE BOARD ENJOINED, PLANS TO VACATE THE ORDER. of the certain phases of the story told by Fox. (Continued from First Page) rs MAJORITY PLANNED TO JAM CONTRACT THROUGH TO-DAY. Bervice of the injunction «polled tie | the ported, was a report that reached the| Service Commission to rush the ¢ They 14 that, although it wan reported| Were expecting to sign the B. RT. eon- th was too Ill to leave his home, | tracts within two hours when th: Pur lows this ribul Building, Various matters on the cal- ndar relating to subways, including « plan to unite the new Lexington avenue subway and the old subway by a tunnel through the Grand Central station and line od on adoy had a ORDER OF COURT SERVED ON} the commission. CHAIRMAN WILLCOX, While this was going on a man who had entered the story that resulted in the indict-| the door made his way to the seat of ment of Fox, who yesterday pleaded | Chairman Willcox, who was surrounded shed the | Wilcox tn it's an injunction.” The Secretary | It wan discov: ered that the injunction applies not) oples of | Hopper po- but to the Interborough con- HEARST LAWYER ASK6 FOR A tow moments before noon Clarence Ghearn, attorney for William Ran the headqui might ine wi- THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, ‘PEBRUARY 4 caring may be one, two. three oF we $9000eeee days, J cannot eay for certain have consulted with my as * the notlee of the hearing ae be Se and the publiic will tunity to examine the ¢ any ubjectons it may hav tracts.’ M'CALL WILL NOT QUALIFY FOR NEW OFFICE TO-DAY. Mr. McCall announced at 1 o'clock that he would not qualify tu rr for William I. Wulicor’s place. He also | stated that Mr. Willcox would wall oa him during the afternoon and he pested iv abla many uselu details about hia new oftica, ' All day an endless flood of tele- gfams poured into the Justice's chaw bers. Outside his private office waa a Jong line of well wishers and law yers, who dropped in to express thet regrets that he was leaving the jud! clary and to wish him well in his new field of activity. Among the Justices there were many evidences of genuine | sorrow, Justice (Hegeric allowing his feeling full sway tn a flood of tears. ‘The Chi n wave out letter wh 6 received Mr. Wille oR. The ietter re “web. 4 “My dear Justice MoCall. Suppiemen ing iny telegram to you, 1 wish to con. @ratulate vou upon your appointment as my successor and to assure you that if at any time J can be of rervi you T wish you would command m It ble to you, I would like to | arrange to have my fellow commis [stoners and the leads of departments ‘on hand to are when you come to take your place here, and tf you wil! let me know somewhat in advance | shall be glad to arrange the feature. With kind regards, 1 ain, R, WILLCOX.” contracts and file to the con- | : * ater Nay $6 sc apegaace i913. So far an Justic ate the qualification of the new Chair- man may take plave « ume to- | morrow. F M'CALL SAYS HE 18 OPPOSED TO! SECRET DEALS. | Mr. MoCau taiked ty an Evening 'Workd reporter at his home to-day avout lds conception uf the duti or the office to which he has just been | appointed. He was asked his opinio of tbe policy of the present commission and the Transit Committee of the Board of Estimate in framing the operating contracts with the Interbor- ough and the B. KR. T. in secret confer- ences with the officials of those cor- porations. t Hes SSSSE oS so ooresesesoed 1 eum paid to Fax as the Captain's col- lector, Fox declared he bad peen compelled, ‘lal straits, to con- tribute $20 of the $1,000 fund raised to get George Sipp to flee from New York. He said he gave this money to his deliv it to w lawyer. tments for bribery of Sipp , though the case againat t ‘Have you views upon the rapid tran- sit question ?* “I have lived thirty-five years in New York City, all the period of my active tendency to rioting Was Indicated, al- lawyer probably will be taken] life and I certainly have basic ideas] though many members of the Garment Upon transportation matters. I well] Worerk# Union ave coming in from know that there must be a solution of the rapid transit problem that will work out @ benefit for the named r whom he barred by in. Fox, how- i names of the! “Before | come to a decision—if it should fall to me to pass upon the subway contracts—Z shall insist upon tracts, to analyse them, not only aa to that he hi but also all Fox and it wan reporte in conference uptown with unnecessary but also in the posi- Uve conviction that no hasty or iily considered action be taken on my part “With whom have you talked con- cerning this appointment before it was made’ ‘As a matter of truth but one person- age has had the slightest to do with my accepting this office and that |: the Governor of thie Stat SAYS HE WILL WORK IN INTER- TS OF PUBLIC. ‘Then, under the circumstances, the yernor's attitude not being a personal one, but representing the people, you will enter upon the discharge of your duties with an eye directed solely to their interests? “Theirs and theirs only,” was the have pertuaded to offer thei the District-Attorney. Mr, declined to discuss the report. ly he was closeted fo ith WIN} . B | Wh jot the priv od thy and “Do you know anything about the | question of patronage connected with the office.” THE FINANCIAL “SACRIFICE” MADE BY JUDGE M’CALL. “1 know nothing about it, and I care less," said Judge McCall, striking the table with his fist so that the breakfast dishes rattled. “All that I want to know about any man, who may be em- ployed in a position subordinate to my is that he ta rendering efficient and capable service und the State is recelv- ing in return that for which they are compensauing him, and when that is known that will be accepted as the test.” ‘That Justice MoCall was getting ready ne his new duties was shown to- when the Law Journal containing the decisions and wotk of the Justices ed the courthouse, head of nearly every part eleven months at niva00. 068,541.63 Salary as Chairman of the Public Service Com- mission, five years at Unde af the Supreme Court—twenty-four_ in the fourteenth floor of the Tribune Butiding. Mr, Shearn asked to be di- allthe: rected to the office of Travis H. Whit-| (ain, ‘th | ney, secretary to the comu He knocked at Mr. Whitney's door and then entered quickly, “I would like to see copies of those mysterious documents known as the aub- way contracts,” he said, “They have pot come over from the printer,” replied Mr, Whitney Shearn then went to the oMfce of Commissioner Maltble across the hall, He asked the same question of him. Mr, Maltble said he was equally desirous of ing the flnal draft of the contracts, hereupon Mr, Shearn left the office of are decisions by Justice ™ ‘The calendar shows that Justic Call signed more than 2,909 orders sterday and rendered decisions in more than 10 cases, some of them of long atanding and of great importance It was midnight last night when the Justice concluded his work, He left all the ¢ over which he hay in such shape that none of the mass of litigation on his desks had to be re- ferred to any of his colleagues, The bulk of the Justice’s work was in Part 1, where he was axsigned to alt yesterday morning. He signed 1,800 or- ders in his chambers discontinuing suite | on the motjon of t Corporation un | sel brought by city employees again the city, some of the gulls dating back | ten years, In the case of Ethel L. Roehn for a divorce from her husband, Wrnest Le | Roehn, which was tried before Justice | MoCali last month in Part 11, anda dict returned by the jury against both Ission. BOARD OF ESTIMATE TO GIVE PUBLIC HEARING. Refore the subway contracts become | legal and binding upon the city, they have to be approved by (he Board of husband and wife, che Justice set aside | } Hatimate and Apportionment the verdict against the wi | Hy signing the contracts |mmediately| "I eannot but be convinced.” he sald, | that the verdict Is against the weight! | of evidence In so far aa the jury con cluded that the plaintife was guilty « «| the Delaware Water Gap Hotel the jafter voting thelr approval of t fo | Public Service Commission eg | the necesslt clal meeting of the Board of This meeting | been dy by the counse! The custom hae acty for the the contracts ant rdoof Batimate fe © money needed the ¢ od le the Commission jin construction con migsion to vote up send them to the Be the appropriation of to ° contr tracts tracts befo Ro: A particle of food between your Teeth Means discomfort und often nerve torture Your tongue wt slisadge It, Avoid danger and get ‘sate relict the wot flex: co Quilo’s Tooth bicks pease a for Tes hug tanta a Tantric Gorse Ys up nd r hope deni Mod Jafternoon the Moard give u hearing tracts “You can say he announced, ‘tha the Board of Hatimate will give th public full opportunity to be heard upon these subway contva.ts, ‘There will ) PR @ public hepring, The notice of thix before ag many ofa F from Mas North ken at Kronprinzessin Cecilie, | once deepite their 10} America almost uano' were literally banked wit rand and their son, little Duc de Sagan, arrived they had to fairly shove their way v agers of the McCall wis able to} living quietiy at Lyn Jestate at Tarrytown, since the wedding. bourg,”* tailor made sult and a si Her husband dark blue but they we | Among the other passengers were fvan| MRSsAND MR.-FINLEY; | Cary), the and his wife and | SHEPARD Luigi Soall, manager of the Italian Line | in this ¢ ernment to waive th of tl pre he Kish war and have not} singe been released. oe wo st " REDBAN! aix hundred men at the Sigmund Eisner uniform factor went on strike to New York to ass! cording to the stri tory has sev eral ¢ presided | * ~ HELEN GOULD GIVES. NOTOROUS WURK, FRIENDS SURPRISE | AND SAILS ABROAD Mr. and Mrs. fs inert Leave} | Dy Dress reports from Los Angeles that | “the widow of John H. McGuirk in for Honeymoon Trip Along the Nile. | Springing a of thei niey J. Sh ompiete ends, surprise on Mr, and Mee. d, the latter the former | Helen Gould, drove up to the rman Liyod docks In Mobe- | 9 o'clock to-day and boarded the | They went at! and found that, efforts to slip away from ced, their rooms flowers. the hour for sailing approached, 4nd more flowers arrived until, by time the Duc and Duchess de Taly- to thelr suite, Ay through the array of bDiossoms. he Duc and Duchess were fellow voy- Shepherds, who have been urst, the bride's Shepherd was radiant and smil- id willingly posed for photogra- Mr, Shepard was equaily affable and gave @ brief outline of their plans. he said, “and go to Paris.” ence our plans include a leisurely ey to Egypt and up the Nile, In| we shall eeturn to this country | Berlin," i Mrs. Shepherd wore a plain blue cloth | 11 black hat. | was plainly dressed in| and wore a black overcoat, oft friends saw them off, kept busy answering “bon telegrams from all parts of ntry. “We shall leave the ship at | on his way to t get the Gove aims to some His Mne, which have been rvive as transporte since \ty. Mr taly to see if he feet of nd women employed No disorder c the strikers, A prs the Eisner ta vernment contracts Skin and Hair Soap other and Oi men So much for the complexion, uickly and economically. ir use tends to prevent ore-clogging, pimples, Kheads redness, - ness and other un le some conditions of the skin. al principles ol laxatives only. Dootore Almost ALWAYS prescribe a cathartic or laxativet rst thing for a sick person, either tely or combined with oth: ine, Doctors do this because vere cannot be good health cocovery from a diseased condition without regular bowel action anc aun system, ‘This shows the ‘mportance of keeping the bowels open and regular, contain the laxative nature's vegetable | sou , undigested and fermenting food SUICIDE HALL OWNER, DEAD; FORTUNE GONE; A despatch that John H. McGurk, former owner of “Suicide Hall” an@ other resorte on the Bowery, was in Pasadena, Cal., was followed to-day Pasadena denies he ts the Suicide fall | McGuirk of New York.” The former ‘saloon keeper spelled his ame ‘“Mo- Gurk." Nevertheless, many of Suicide John's friends of the old days say there is no doubt tt ts MoGurk had uberculo: sis and six years ago went Weet in hope of being cure!. His wife and @aughter were also said nave the disease, and reports that reach his acquaintances here were that his money was about gone, thouzh at une time he was reported to be wortt $40,000, McGurk was born in freland sixty years ago and came bere trom Boston in 1888. He opened a dive at Elizabeth wo Dime a box—Gentlyclean your liver and constipated bowels while you sleep. ‘Take a Cascaret to-night and thor- our Stomach an els, and you will surely feel | great by morning. 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