Show j- j IT FOUND mUNG GUilTY OF f DRIB BRIBING i r WITH WITNESS t J four Demoted Police Inspectors r tors of New York City Coni Convicted Con Con- i on Charge of ConI ConspiracY Conspiracy Con Con- I r to Obstruct Justice MAY BE SENTENCED TO TOi TOr r i SERVE YEAR IN JAIL I Evidence Given at Trial to tot toI I i- i t Show Defendants Received Share of Graft Collected From Resort sort Keepers in Harlem NEW MEW YORK May far G. G J G.-J G. James F. F t j Thomas James E E. II Busses u sey J John olm t J. J and Dennis Sweeney the thc J tour lour demoted police inspectors I it charged with conspiracy to obstruct I justice were convicted b by by- bya a jury in inthe thc the supreme court shortly after S o'clock tonight f Only thirty eight minutes was taken tak- tak h the tho reach their en by jurors to vcr vcr- diet dict that tho defendants guilty J of a miS misdemeanor in plotting t to keep n a a prospective witness against the thc f f uS system from making graft disclosures dis- dis dis lis- closures before the grand graid jur jury The accused officials stood outwardly outward outward- J ly unmoved cd a as they ther hoard heard the the verdict The crowd In the tho courtroom however caused a disturbance shuffling chairs and and feet teet until attendants checked tho the disorder cr The The- prisoners gave their theil I arid aid after being being- reman remanded c 1 for sentence Friday ay were returned to their cells coils Their counsel announced that a certificate ate of doubt would bo be so sought hl which would give f V the prisoners oner iv a chance chanco to go o free freo onT on T ball bail SpendIng fending efforts to obtain a now trial Liable to lo Imprisonment The penult penalty for for- obstruction of ot Justice Jus JUB- tice Js is s ono 3 year ar f In jail or 0 a a. fine of ot or both It was r.-as reported that the tho Jur Jury required only o e ballot balot to each its d decision An att attorney for the defense declared ho verdict was shock was a l. l and the briefness of tho the jurys jury's deliberations a a surprise e. e Another of the prisoners prisoners' prison prison- ers ers' law lawyer cr said no other verdict was expected Tho atmosphere of ot th tho I city dh O of or NOW York 1 Is surcharged at the I pre present ent time with a determination to convict he ho said t The conviction of Thompson Hussey Murtha and Sweeney is regarded b by I Mr lr Whitman as aa the most important yet in connection with his 1119 expose of the tho police system that wa was shown I to to link huh law enforcers with the city's when Becker the police lieutenant hired the four gunmen to murder Herman Rosenthal the gambier gam- gam tIer bier last summer Bribed Keeper r Tho The men cro on trial seven court days d s 's District Attorney Whitman nn and bi assistants produced evidence to show tho that tho the four plott plotted d to bu buy tho the J of George A A. Sipp a resort ort I keeper Deeper through rl bribing him to flee j j the state slate last ast December at after r he ha had I Continued on Paso Pago 3 Column 5 I FOUND GUILTY OF BRIBING WITNESS Continued From Page Pae I 1 told the time aldermanIc committee that was Investigating Investigating- tho police department that for years no ito had made monthly payments Ja ments to the police for tor protection of his resort rc ort Before Mr Whitman had hada a 0 chanco to get SIpp to repeat his testimony before the grand Jury the time hotel man mon took toole flight Upon b being returned to the courts court's Jurisdiction he lie declared he lie hind hall been bribed with 2000 to leave The prosecutors prosecutor's prosecutors prosecutor's pros pros- inquiry Into his story resulted in lii tho the joint Indictment of tho the defendants defendants defend defond- ants then Inspectors Graft Payment Shown bo nJ During the time trial the state Introduced evidence tending to show that graft I payments b by reached the tho de defendant defendants defendants de- de who in turn commanded time the I Harlem di district where Sipps s hotel was located Tho Timo tribute was collected collect cd for tOt Thomas Va Walsh Ish who was eap captain of a lL Harlem precinct an and 1 Walsh divided dl with the time In Inspectors according to his imIs confession The amount of ot graft gran ex exacted cx- cx acted was in dispute during luring tho trial but Mr Mi Whitman In summoning this afternoon stated It was a year In Walsh's precinct alone alono Walsh an and hipp Sipp were the states state's chief wit wIt- nesses Tho The prosecution also conten contended ed that besides the Sipp fund a 0 bribe of 1 wn was planned b by the thc defendants to furnish ball bail for ono Eugene Fox a policeman and to provide for his family fam fam- without hiP ily If Ir ho lie went want to Jail ing Fox awaits sentence for bribery collector his confession con con- graft as Walsh's terminating terminating- the necessity of a fund b by tho time system to insure In uro his silence TIme The final dl day of or the time trial was oCCUpied time tho completion of summoning pied b by or of tIm tho defense Mr lIr Whitman's ar- ar up courts court's for tor tho state and the charge chargo to the tho jur jury The prosECUtor time tho what ho declared was weakness 0 of the case of time the defenses defense's character r t testimony and efforts alibis discredit some of oC tho s to that tho thoy the tho grounds witnesses ses on were gift givers and graft tf take takers frs s. s Time T-no earlY cam case caso went to the jury In time tho C evening e C fl I rig Grand Jury I rol Lud EDl of aHon The Seven Ic n corruption lii In the New ew York police do- do begun 1 bY aim 11 extraordinarY after V the indictment or of rand grand jury Jun Lieutenant Charles fleck fleck- former death or er and time tho four of for fOI the tho murder the gambler ended District Attorney Whitman Supreme Court Justice Go Goff that the time jUr Jurys Jury's work was finished and the Jury Jun was discharged Tho The jur Jury convened In tn accordance with tho the instructions from Governor Dix had been In almost continuous session from front October 6 G last Jast until a recess was tal taken en twenty days ago ogo mong Among the tIme results of Its labors was the Indictment of tho the four former police police po- po lice Inspectors now on trial You have rendered a great rent service to this community said Justice Goff Gorf Goffin Gorfin in discharging tho the jury You have collectively and individually all raised railed our standard of civic dut duty to such a L high degree that I am ant sure suro tho the citizens citE citi semis oem of ot this cit city feel foci a 0 sense of deep gratitude |