Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-07
SULLVAN'S DEAL.
His Account With One Brokers Firm i'm
Chicago.

Chicago.
CHICAGO, June 6th.-In the Cronin in
quest to day the cashier of John T. Lester
& Co., brokers, testified that between June
l, 1882, and April 13, 1888, Alexander SulH-
van paid to the firm on deals Sl33, 800. and
drew out $4,000, showing a net loss of
about 81 500.
One of Lester & Co.'S bookkeepers was
put on the stand and proceeded to read an
abstract OF the transactions in stocks which
Sullivan had with the firm during the
period mentioned. The list was long and
was not all read. Captain Thomas G.
O'Connor, member of the Clan-na. Gael
said that in 1885 man came to see him,
This man he believed lived in Philadel-
phia, but he could not remember his name.
The man told him that some men were
going across the water, and chances were
that he (the witness) would be called on
to go.
O'Connor mentioned this to his friend
Cronin, who advised him not to go. That
there were enough good, honest Irish
men behind the English bars who had
been given away as soon as they arrived,
and that he did not believe in the dyna-
mite policy. The stranger saw the witness
to see him again. The only other notable
witness of to- day was John F.
Biggs, lawyer and Senior Guard
ian (presiding office of Camp No.
20, Clan-na-Gael. Biggs was cross
examined in a way that for freedom and
scope could scarcely be surpassed. He
testified that 2. II. Sullivan, the ice-man,
is a member of Camp No. 20. Other than
this the relevancy of the bulk of witness
testimony was not apparent at this stage.
Mr.. Sullivan never drew check in fa-
vor of any syndicate of bucket-shop men
for any sum until he had the money in
hand from them to meet it. Coincident
with the time he was thus acting as agent
for bucket-shop men, he received from
Patrick Egan large sum OF money, of
which he was the custodian.
This fund was transferred from Paris
to New York and thence to Chicago, where
it was deposited in the Traders Bank.
Sullivan, knowing that no loss would
occur to him personally from Lester e.
Co.'S transactions, it mattered little what
bank he drew money from. He always
had syndicate money in hand before draw
ing check to the order of their broker"
Witness declared himself q friend of
Alexander Sullivan.
The Daily Ne,gs tomorrow will say: at
does not appear that the Irish cause lost
any money by Alexander Sullivan's bank
llS OptIdllOlS. sullivan NhSI dShCu
what bank his account was transferred to
from the Traders, promptly replied to the
Chicago National
Lawyer A S. Trude, speaking for Mr..
Sullivan in an interview, said: Mr.. Sulli-
van was simply an agent of the persons or
combination desiring to operate on the
Board of Trade, and his receipts all show
the word agent Mr.. Sullivan did
not know anything about speculations
of this character, and probably could not
tell put from a call His name
was simply used on Lester & Co.'S books by
syndicate OF bucketshop men in
order that they might do business on
Board of Trade when their orders
made it necessary for them to do so.
The syndicate was made up of such
firms as Murphy & Co. Mr.. Sullivan met
some of these parties in his law practice,
and was given large sums of money, with
explicit written directions what to do with
it. They or their customers were gamers
or losers by the transactions made by
Lester e. Co, not Alexander Sullivan. The
public knows very well that the Board of
Trade would not sanction Lester & Co. or
any other firm doing an open business for
bucket-shop, and this was the reason for
the concealment and use of Mr.. Sulliyan's
name"