The evening world. Newspaper, October 7, 1921, Page 32

t | i i \ ing his arms. “1 “LIAR” AT WITNESS IN MEYER INQUIRY Ree eae (Continued From First Page.) “Mr. Fox and his secretary had told of Chreats against his life by other con- Cactors and by politicians if he , “alan't stay out of Queens.” Mr. Phil- Hips deciarod he never in his life used @ desk in Queens Borough Hall Asked for if he received a check 95,000 from “Doc” M ws, Mr Phillips said: “1 don't know. I get @ great many checks.” Asked regarding his bank accounts “hind safe deposit boxes, Mr. Phillips Yecame defiant, but gave tion. the informa. Mr. Phillips swore he was a partner of Contractor Sigretto on the dist Street sewer, but he couldn't remem- ‘ber how much money he got out of it sWhat do you do with your mioney?” Deputy Attorney General Berger asked. “None of your business,’ the wit ness replied Mr. Phillips then entered into a Noisy wrangle, defying Mr. Berger and Chairman Meyer and Senator Douglas Robinson. Mr. Phillips said he gave most of the $14,000 he got from Sigretto to the Lock Joint Pipe Company, and some of it to former Gov. Spriggs of Mon- tana. PUT NOTHING INTO THE PART- NERSHIP. “How much did you put into your partnership with sigretto?” asked Mr Berger. \ @Nothin'!” replied the witness. There was laughter. Mr. Phillips flushed and yelled: “And I'm here to tell you Sigretto didn't eithe Wwe built our machinery and I superin- tended the work.” “Are you 4 builder?” asked Mr. Ber- ger. “J are!” shouted Mr. Phillips, wav- ‘There was uproar, “Aw, go on!” said Mr. Phillips to the committee and audience generally “go on, laugh!" Numerous checks to Phillips from actors were identified; many of them were cashed by “Doc” Mat- thews. “““Doc” Matthews is now in Ci “or gone to the races somewhere,” Mr. iNlips said. He denied “Doc” Mat- 's was known as “Dan smith,” e racetrack tipster. Mr. Phillips said all the other wit- ases had not told the truth. Henry E. Fox of the Henry B. Fox struction Company nd the Fox- olds Construction Compstny told ¢ bidding on the Electric Pumping tation of the Genesee Street Sewer. ‘he Fox concern bid $173,979. The ext lowest bid was Sigrettos at pate : 1) Q. About Jan. telephone conversation Phillips? A. I did. Q. Do you recognize his voice when nada, 1920, did you have with John This was the only time that big lat Sig omise put ina There was an good work coming ont over t Why don't ye tin on Mr. Phillips also stated that he 1d two or three men at the letti trying to locate Mr. Fox. Conversa- tion ended by Mr. Phillips making an appointment to meet Mr. Fox at this fice on Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 1 Arthur M. King, who was associated with former Gov, Whitman in the nt Grand Jury investigation of New York County officials testified that Marvin Scudder, a public ac counta was mnistaken In explaining the disappearance of two checks of the O'Rourke Construction Company ‘ the committee wishes in evi cheeks for 0 and $7,500 given to Willlam 1 Matihe we, spoken ‘of in testimony as “Doc” Matthews, for “preaching the gospel of the concrete block" type of con- truction, Ww was ad when the O'Rourke con n got the Linden Avenue sewer job, Mr, Sendder i the course f another investigation had the check He described c former Under Sheriff John M. Ph VW Mr. Scudder suid he gave the che to Mr, King an did not set ern back, Mr Kin swor to-day bh never saw them Assemblyman ©. D, Donohue aske Mr. King if, in the course of his in vestigation for Mr. Whit he found anythin eflect! on Borough President Maurice E, Connelly or his Iminist ratio’ 1 do not,” uid Mr. King. Deputy Attorney General Samuel A. Beg hastened to ask if Mr. King’s investigation was not limited to a search for wrongdoing affecting New « County. Mr, King ac- knowledged this, but insisted that so went there was no of wrong ad- ministration Connolly's office. Mr. Purcell called. He took the stand with the utmost com | posu far as his inquiry indication of any in Mr, was sort then Mr, Connolly sat ina front seat, making notes Mr. Purcell said he was in the surety bond and insurance business and had taken an interest in the $400,000 contract for the 5ist Street his company was on the bond of the contractor, Joseph L. Sigretto. When Sigretto wanted to get rid of the contract it was essen- tial to the suret contractor sewer because company that a re- sponsible take over the work , O. Why did Mr. Sigretto say it was |\mpossible to go ahead with the work? A. He said the reason was that Jack Phillips, who was then agent of the Lock Joint Pipe Company, insisted on his paying him $25,000 in cash, Q. Did he tell you what that $25,000 nded for?’ A. He said that d it was to defray the ex- the was dem Phillips | pense of a man running for preme Court at that time | Q. Who was thatman? A. Maurice FE. Connolly, at present Borough Pres ident of the Borough of Queens, Q. You that never knew Pi it ver the telephone? Sigretto Ber ar sioray tnaulty into mr |SIGRETTO TOLD OF MANY PAY. Paiilips’s business—in which hisusual] Gy eal E be : ef ow"—Bty | did Sigretto ever tell you of hi newer was “I don't know’ Mf. | ying required to pay Phillips money yer asked how big Mr. Phillips's| out of his contracts? A. Oh, ye count was in his ony bank, the | rr ad times ~ Cam 6 2. Tell us wh you know about allan Deposit and ‘Trust Company. | @.’ y api | that? A. Sigretto told me he had Eernree dollars since December) tre eer eae oo us theraabouts, houted the witness. The room roared ith laughter in which Mr. Phillips ined. But he added he would + Fich when the city paid contractors Who owed for pipe. Mr. Phillips said he was testifying t @ disadvantage because he was il) in great pain THE CONTRACT GAME WAS i WORKED. | Mr, Berger withdrew Mr. Fox and wore his stenographer, Mrs. Ada R. ley, who identified the following nscript of a telephone talk over~ rd by her, at Mr. Fox's direction, tween Mr. Fox and Mr. Phillips: } ‘Mr, Phillips called up Fox's | and phone was answered by Mrs | Dudley.” (It was explained that “Mr. P.” referred to Mr. Phillips. ‘ And Mrs, D— meant Mrs, Dud hiey.) “Mr. P.: Will you have Mr | Fox write me a letter about the Loek Joint Pipe required for the pumping station, Borough of | Queens and I will confirm it?” ' “Mrs, D.—Just a minute, here is Mr. Fox now. + “Mr. D.—Mr. Fox, Mr. Phillips em phone, wishes to speak to you. ' “Mr. P.—To Mr. Fox: Why } @ten’t you lay off that job to-day .I peut word for you to do $G— d— it, you spoiled our J game. If that boy you sent over fhad only been four ininutes later, hit would have gone right. I have | mothing against you, but I have egainst that fellow you had doing your figuring for you.” § “Mr. Fox—Who did I have (my figuring for me?” § “Mr, P.—Why that fellow Le OX told Leahy if you put in a 994 have bim fired and I will, to “Mr. Fox—I have been In bus! mess over thirty-five years and I have never had anybody to do ) my figuring but myself. Who perer told you that Leahy did my i tiguring they are all wring. Where did you get this information?” i “Mr. P—Well, I won't say, but } you know when we politicians are Vinterested in a job, we have some fone looking things up for us. | Why didn’t you get in with us on { &t? You could have made $100,- 900. We have been trying to lo- _ wate you for the past three weeks, be to 80. ng y jand [asked him what it was for I said, 948,000 nd. “you are foolish to give a mun Unless he is rendering some service for it." “Well,” he says, ‘he | helps me to get payments out of | Borough Hall in Queens County s that it would go from Queens ( | to the Comptroller's tice, unty nd he also helps me to get’ contracts from Borough Hall.” “To what sort of person did you suggest to Sigretto he assign the con- tract?” “Some reputable contractor that could not be bulled in Queens County | by any one in authority, particularly the unofficial head of the Sewer De. | partment, John M,. Phillips,” replied Mr. Purcell. FAVORITES OF PHILLIPS GOT THE CONTRACTS. base that statement Q. You what? A, on Contracts were thrown out jand re-let, and it seemed that usually Ja favorite contractor who was friendly with Mr, Phillips got the contract Q. And those contracts involved millions of dollars, didn't they? A. Collectively, yes. Q. That is what I mes A. Yes Q. Were you present when this ck for $14,000 was handed by Mr. em to Mr. Sigretto in the presence Phillips? There was a great Most of it was ‘n, collectively, ck of A deal of conversation, argument, QW at about? A |that Sigretto indorse to Phillips. “What did Mr. Berger Mr. 1 Mr Phil Senator Downing tf of that money Phillips? 4. No, sir Donohue—Did_— you unt prepared in a id a 50 per cent awarded Phillips nsisted the check over Sigretto say?” asked ar re laughed to coule should and n't have a why whole the Did you not bring Mr. or a your rainst mi you to thi It is, th changed a n up stopped it OPINON time,’ but is awarded, Cha 1 replied Mr. P Ls ¢ OF CONNOLLY HAS CHANGED IN FOUR YEARS. rit it is ha wu | | |to the | | | conduct Borou be “{ would say that ett npet | seas speaking of Mr Conn iy Q. Did you entertain that opinion THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1921. | 1 a ah ® ” ing that she wi ass 4 | thee » wo ightfall be! e ough 6 Y , s REV. W. H. KEPHART’S ¢ ig that she would pass through the /through the woods after nightfall, as/being driven through child’s| WOMAN’S WILL CONFINED SILVER JUBILEE TO |0 Kiuxen Woods at that time, the way through the public streets|clothing. However, all her clothing Little Jeanette, the younger child of | Was only a little longer and much|had been careful rrunged about TO JUST 23 WORDS. BE BRONX FESTIVAL 7. J. Lawrence, an employee of the | safer, : her by the killor before his flight. | BY MANIAC IN WOODS freight department of the Lacka-|. But it 1s not definitely known| A# Soon as possible County Prose. | Kate Maxon of Nonkers im mestnc vi Railroad at Newark, lived with | whether the child obeyed her in this|CUtor John Mills and Dr. Seward or-) 70 iy Waits, hie ties | | her parents at No. 142 Ridgedale Ave-| instance or not. The condition of| dered the removal of the body to Bore | ey oi jor ined at Gatdte VAlUbA | | uue* Though she was only twelve |Jeanette’s heels clearly showed that|Toushs's Morgue, in Madison, And} ey ayy jy will filed for probate in WV, J. | rears old she was sé well grown t she had been dragged a considerable| Within halt an hour after the finding | White Plains to-da The rument, the might have been thought to be|distance to the point at which her| of the body several posses of citizens | which, was writiva ji pened and wit bic cag sixteen. She was admired by all the|body was found, so it may be that| Were formed and started out 0] "spay all my expenses and give the (Continued From First Page.) Lawrence neighbors, In the Madison {the murderer struck her down in Fair- | Search the neighborhood for the crim~| rest of jw possussion te my Bea | 2 ' public School she was in 7A Grade | view Avenue not long after she had| inal or for any traces he may have |! will.’ age Pel ae ae ji ind wel, advancec er studies, — {le 30 ° left behind him, The police in auto he address of Isabella Walk inn, of AE he MOEN en dee Wek eli advanced in her studies. left the Sandt home police in aut rie Raarean’ OF Tanne Wwalkee a | It was her custom after school to panetts i siaty swy{ Mobiles and motorcycles were sent] + Ne’ a4 ve i wee" As Jeanetté was usually ve : ntl York, Ja blow that crashed in her face and|go to the home of Mra, James A. G. Minera : ‘ the | Out and all night they hunted the | - le é la sete ; d M Je - G.) prompt in reaching home from the] roads and any places in which a/ part Elected 1 ident of t Joubtless rendered her unconscious, Sandt, at No. 19 Fairview Avenue,| sandt house, her family became a lit-| fugitive might hide | ~ sii Goute ich of Unita- Then, after knotting a handkerchief |My a few hundred yards from her|¢jo worried when 6 o'clock came and| . ‘The murder occurred not more than] | ar, Prins own home, to look after little Made Ps 00 feet from the home of Francis| DETROIT, Oct, 7.—Willlam ‘Howard about her neck to stifle any outery| oie eanat nit dike. she had not returned. Then her 8ix-| jiuxen, owner of the woods that bear| Taft. Chief Justice of the United eine Sandt, a child fo four, unti nas , e! 1 : NES sheeted De! i she might make on regaining her|qinner time. Then she rd AYE ee, ee sent) his name, The Kiuxen family was at | stat apre int, to-day was re- earines HO ned THIN te ichotd | fer : hen she would start) ¢, the gandt place to ask whether she| home at the time, but no one there {clected, without opposition, President 9 oe Pe Pd ceeds |had left, Mrs. Sandt told him sho had] heard the least noise or disturbance | of the Unitarian, General Conference at by which to drag her Into the woods, AS usual she went.to the Sandt] .tarted away nearly half an hour be-| 0 the woods. Mrs, Lawrence was pre- | iy "far ta. third im Gualnens eee . | home yesterday afternoo: 500 aioe ‘ae paring dinner at the time and she said ‘ The handkerchief that was found oun a rday afternoon, At about) ere, Jedison returned home and gave | she heard: hothitip. to indicate: what knotted about the girl’s neck to be ies _ ne mavetes to six, according this news and five minutes later the | was happening. used in an effort to trace the killer,|‘ Mrs. Sandt, she started for itu search for Jeanette began > | and this afternoon County Detective | $4¥ing She was going to dinner. That) \rany of the neighbors who had| Trackle; Trolley Starts Brennan came to Madison with two] Was the last seen of her by Mrs.) on told of the little girl's disappear- | Morr bloodhounds to which the handker- | Sandt or by any one who he yet) ince joined in the hunt. One of them * Staten Island's chief was given as a scent eh diacevered |was Chauncey Griswold, a boy scout, |the # of f All of the greenhouses in the neigh-| Her homeward journey lay down|wno started through the Kluxen | “inn | horhood were visited to-day, and it uirview Avenue thence by Woods with a lantern. I. wa » who | to-morrow, wh was reported that none of the work-| short cut through the Kluxen Woods] ayentually found the body, hidden| \lvlan as ers was absent from any of them. |i Ridgedale Avenue and tius to her} penind a log apd more than 250) Avenue. to nt err Search was also made of their sup-|own door But she never reached |fuet from the Lawrence home, Its/ Cit: with i v W. n, Com plies to see whether 1 like | tidgedale Avenue evening. Gott-| position was such that it was hidden|{ormany will start about 4 that tied about the hands|lieb Frieling, a retired gardencr,|fyom the sight of any one looking|{rom Mexers Corners \ could be found aid to-day that he was standing atlinto the wood toward Ridgedale Ave- | Hie ke don eRRat tere mv | Although the erime was committed] lis gate at about the time Jeanette | nue | President Van N < Vy tesa ,,| within so short a distance of her}was killed and as this gave him a] -, Sewa Jounty Coroner, |P& # the & ee Calebrillon Will Continue Through | Peer : ie ah Dr. F. H. Seward, County Coroner, | ! home no one has been found who]view not only of Ridgedale Avchue| was at once summoned and his ex-| south “st the Week of Octol heard a single sound to in: the | but » of the woods he certain | amination of the girl's body di so s. 9 to 17, horror that was taking place in the | he never emerged into the former) the tact that she hdd been stabbed) CAT TOWN, 7.--South Africa lember the Congregational Shureh i The mangled bod ; f cu \th ightare, twent ens tim the neck d Si i ae dance brings thirst of North New York, at 143d Street, near|little girl was found less than two] Mrs. Lawrence, who prostrated | throat, five times in the breast and| tery a tribute compo: 1 flow Cola brings refresh- Willis Avenue, have arranged a weec-| hours after the attack upon he r. | by the murder of her daughter, said|once in the abdomen. It was clear} picked in. v parts the t long festival to mark the twenty-fifth | ‘There is belief that the man’ wholto-day that she had often begged| that in many cases the wounds were | Of South Africa. Retresentativos of THE COCA-COLA COMPANY anniversary of the Rev, William Howard | killed her lay in walt for her, know=|Jeanette not {fo take the’ short cut| made without the blade of the knlfe| are now gathering these flowera aiaiain Kephart’s pastorat rhe celebration | ' 14 next Sunday, Oct. 9, and winds up ‘The first ceremony will open Sunt morning with a cornet solo by James Knox and an address of greeting by ) Houseworth, ‘The anniversary ser- | mon by Dr. Kephart will follow, In the evening there will be an elaborate | musical programme and a sernjon by the Rev, Charle Jefferson, pastor of the ‘ondway Taber le. Monday there will be a gathering of Bronx clergymen of various denomina- tions., Monday evening there will be a concert by the ehureb choir. Representatives of the different eivie societies and public and semi-publte er- ganizations in which Dr, Kephart has been active, will gather at the chureh ‘Tuesday night to offer thelr greetings, and Thursday has been se special celebration by the nf the chur union day’ Sunday will b aside for a unday senool . Priday will be and Saturday aud by grand ralli Dr, Kephart e pastor of t North New York Congregational Chureh Oct. 19, 1896, coming from the Plymouth Congregation first located at Alexand 142d Street, the chu its present site to get more room. Al- ‘ations were made and a new corner stone laid in 1903 and the new church was dedicated on Oct, 9, 1904 al Chureh, Bi ghamton, At Avenue end h was moved to Dr. Kephart, besides his activities in various Bronx societies and orguniza- | tions, is Chaplain of the 143d Coast A1- | tillery, the old Sth ©. A.C, | i SERVICE REPUDIATES | SUBWAY SOLICITORS | Will Cause Arrest of Any Using Land Corporation’s Name, | | Says Secretary. | Solicitors who are using the name} the American: Land Servic Ine induce phi senge nthropic subway pas- sto drcp coins into the little Jingling boxes we e repudiated yester- day by Miss Monica Barry Walsh, Di- rector of the corporation “When reports came that the ex-| service men out of employment whom | had hire had been insulting to} passengers,” she said, “we ordered all our solicitors of the streets and sub- saturday we noti- fled the police and the detectives of the Interborough and B. R, T. to ar- | rest all persons soliciting money in | the name of the American Land Ser- vice, In “At present we know there are over eighty solicitors at work on the | streets who have received no permit | to collect funds, Many of them are | using the name of our organization. None of them is entitled to do so. Any such persons we find we will | cause to be arrested and prosecuted. | “Statements that this organization | placed solicitors on the streets with- | out a permit to do so from the Board of Aldermen are untrue. A letter from President La Guardia, signed by William T. Colling and August Fer- jran, majority and minority leaders of that body, dated Aug. 6, assured ght solicit funds without in- us we m ference until Oct, 11, when the ard reconvenes, “Arthur Williams, General Man-| ager of the Edison Company in this] we | ways last Friday n. The funds collected and_ the uses to which they are put are audited | by the statistical department of the | Edison Company, Any one is welcome to view the ac at any time, and any one Inter in the work is re- quested to do Our treasurer ts hn Whalen, former Corporation Counsel, who is now in, California.” Srl when Mr. Connolly was candidate for the office of President of Queens? A. 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