The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1921, Page 4

sen ancsnriiane ee . ‘SOX CONFESSIONS -) READ TO JURY AT "BASEBALL TRAL Cicotte, Williams and Jackson Told Details of Alleged Sell- lami. Out to Gamblers, | CHICAGO, July 26—The confes- sions made by Eddie Cicotte, Claude “SWilliams and Joe Jackson regarding tha throwing of the 1919 World Series were read to the jury by court ste- mographers from their shorthand notes at the trial of former White Gox and alleged gambters to-day. ‘The actual confessions have been stolen and a mew Gramd Jury investi- gation is in prospect on the charge that the papers were-bought by New York gamblers. | The stories told in the three con- , fessions were similar. A resume follows: ‘The players, in New York prior to the World's Series, fell in with a gamblers’ syndicate. , The proposition was made by “sure ing” gamblers that the games be Shrown to the Cincinnati Reds, the gamblers thereby reaping a harvest because the White Sox were the favorites, Gamblers agreed to pay $100,000 for “fixing” the series. Of this amount $20,000 was to be paid after eacn game. The confessions then told how gam- blers double-crossed the players and ave them only a small part of what ‘Was promised. So many objections were raised by the defense during the reading of Cicotte’s confession that it was neces- gary to adjourn court temporarily While the attorneys went into confer- ence with Judge Jugo Friend. Since a-confession can be used only @gainst the man making it, the etc- mographer was not allowed to men- tion any name except Cicotte's. The defense maintained that such words is as “ballplayers,” “outfielders” and “infielders” also were barred. Judge Friend ordered the attorneys ‘to reach an agreement on the word- ing of the confessions before present- ing them in court, but after two hours of argument only two pages of Cicotte's thirty-page statement had been revised. Indications were that dt would take all day to revise the three confessions, Alfred Austrian, attorney for the Chicago American League Club, will strengthen the State's case by telling ef the oonfessions Ciocotte, Jackson and Williams made to him before going to the Grand Jury room. Harry Brigham, foreman of the Grand Jury before whom the confessions were made, will be called to verify the court reporters’ stenographic stories. The confession testimony is ex- pected to consume the entire day and if the State decides to call William Maharg and Joe Gedeon, their two + yemaining witnesses, they probably ‘will not take the stand before to-mor- row. The State, however, may decide testimony. Meanwhile preparations are going forward for the proposed investiga- tion by a Grand Jury of the newest baseball scandal, the alleged $10,000 bribe given for the originals of the testimony presented to the first Grand Jury, while State attorneys have also announced a wider investigation of the 1919 scandal and other possible indictments if convictions are secured in the present cases. A etatement Issued by Ban John- son, President of the American League, says: Mr. Johnson's communication sald: “I charge that Arnold Rothstein paid $10,000 for the Grand Jury con- fessions of Edward Cicotte, Claude Williams and Joseph Jackson. I charge that this money, brought to Chicago last fall by a representative of Rothstein, went to an attache of the State's Attorney's office under the Hoyne Administration; that after Rothstein had examined these con- fessions in New York City and had found that the ball players had not involved him to the extent of crim- inal liability he gave the documents to his friend, the managing editor of a New York newspaper, “I charge that this editor offered these confessions for sale broadcast throughout the country, “I charge that the confessions, which have disappeared, had attached to them the missing Grand Jury im- munity waivers of the three ball play- ors.” ‘ Mr, Johnson was quoted further as saying that during the extraditioa Proceedings to get Abe Attell back into Illinois for trial, an attorney by the name of Fallon, a representative of Rothstein (presumably William J. Fallon, who represented Attell, not Rothstein), flaunted the confessions im the court in New York Former State Attorney Maclay Hoyne, whose office had charge of the documents at the time they are said to have been stolen, said that he did not believe the papers were stolen from his office or sold by an em- ployee of his office. Judge McDonald took the witness stand after Cicotte, Williams an? Jackson had testified that they had been promised immunity and told that if they “came through” they would be taken care of. They all ad- mitted signing the immunity papers but said they did not know “they were loaded." They suid they did not read them, Jackson said he was drunk. The Judge denied he had ever pror- {sed any of them immunity, and for Williams, who told him he received a salary of-only $2,800, he expressed & degree of sympathy and sald he told him that.if he went through with his confession in the right way it was probable that the trial court wowu take cognizance of his action. Another unusual point brought out hy. the confessiong was that althoygh witnesses had testified that the con- spiracy ended after the second game and the players said they were through, Willlams and Jackson had each taken $5,000 In bribes after the fourth game. This was regarded as significant by attor- neys for the State, who have claimed that the conspiracy did not end until the last game was played. ee Women Slashes Wrist in Jail. A woman convicted of vagrancy at- tempted to commit suicide in her cell in Jefferson Market Jail to-day by slashing her wrists with glass: Ni Williams, a nogress, of No. Sant 122d Street, and had been remanded for sen- tence Thursday by Magistrate Silber- mann in the Woman's Court. ao ot Ne "THE EVENING WORLD, suesDAY, JULY 26, 1991,' tha penne am ee NOTHOIEIN CALLS JOHNSON’S CHARGE Declares He Would Not Pay a - Dime for White Sox Confessions, Arnold Rothstein fairly bristled in replying to-day to the charges made by Ban Johnson. “I have never laid eyes on the con- fessions of the baseball players on trial in Chicago,” the said. “I wouldn't spend one dime—10 cents—for the privilege of reading all the documents in the case, including the confessions, testimony and affidavits. No, not if Ban Johnson brought them to me himpelf. “Ban Johnson needs to wate’ his step; peaceful of men can be driven too far. “My name was dragged into the *DELBERATELIE 2 the best natured and. most | cago baseball scandal of 1919 by men who thought they might evade trouble for themselves or get some advan- tage by bringing me into it, I did all any man could; I went to Chicago voluntarily; I told the Grand Jury 1 kane’ answered every ques- tion they could suggest. I came away confident I was vindicated and was rid of the thing, but at every turn my name is again put into the dirty “It je all unfair and indecent. I have courted full inquiry. Every possible clue which might involve me haa been followed officially. I have not been indicted, Is there no pro- tection from those who persist in link- ing me with this disgrace? Nobody knows better than Ban Johnson that he is telling a deliberate lie when he says that 1 was in any conspiracy to get possession of the bail-players’ confessions or that I paid for them —$10,000 or 10 cents.” William J, Fallon, attorney, said to-day in answer to the statement of Ban Johnson that Rothstein paid $10,000 for the Chicago Grand Jury minutes: “Rothstein never paid a penny for them. Rothstein was never impli- cated in getting them, nor did a penny of his money go to the Chicago play- ers for fixing the series. “Abe Attell had no money to pay toward the fixing. But’ he did know that the series was to be fixed, cause that was current talk in Chi- & week before the games were begun, Attell had heard of the fix- ing and wanted to make a Kittle money for himself. “Indirectly I procured the Grand FRANKLIN SIMON MEN'S SHOPS TOMORROW Final Clearance of Banister and Franklin Low Shoes for Men Extreme Reductions from Prices That Were the Extreme of Moderation! 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