Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-04
MAYOR GRANT.
Senate Committee on the Workings OF
City Departments Sit in New York.
Some Interesting Testimony and Sensational
Scenes as Result of the In
vestigations.

uiLtee on Giles Oh hHiSn MI I aso0lb IL
| chairman, sat again in this city to-day
TO hear further developments concerning
the workings of city departments. AS II
was known Mayor Grant would be wit
nsss to exculpate himself from charges
made against him by Patrick McCann {,
the committee room was filed to the
doors. Mayor Grant was present, with
Bourke Cochran, his counsel. Mr.. Cock
ran opened the ball by saying he had
made no statement, as published. scous-
ing the committee of suborning the per-
iured testimony of Mr.. McCann. He had +,
however, said the suborning Of ouch tes-
timony should be published.
Ex-Congressman Adams asked to have
the portions of McCann's direct testi-
mony cut out referring to his brother +,
Thomas Adams, whom Mccain had said
was selected as a ego between for
Grant and the alderman. 1t was so or
dered. Mr.. Mccain was again
put on the stand aud CROSS
examined by MIR. Cochran. He said
Mr.. Croker owed him $4,000, incurred for
supplying groceries to Mr.. Croker s
family. The debt had been growing
for seven or eight years. 1t was incur
red before he took the Mount st. Vim
cent restaurant in 1885. That the $4,000
had been wiped out when he purchased the
restaurant. Since then a debt of $4,000
has grown and is still growing for sup
plying Mr.. Croker's family. He had
kept mourning goods stores, and had
failed in 1879, bur he did not include his
full claim against Croker in his sched-
ules.
"was the debt for goods supplied to
Croker's family?''
eyes; and for dinners supplied to
you. Laughter.
Are you sure about that?'
az am quite sure. -
"You will swear that 1 dined there
more than once?''
"You dined there rhe night that
Grant was elected sheriff and several
times since then. -
Witness had seen Mr.. WINS at his
(witness } house before giving his tes-
timony before the committee and had
spoken to him concerning what testI-
mony he could give but did not tell him
all he knew or had testified to.
Being questioned as to the date when
Mr.. Croker came to him with $3.50, 900,
witness said he could not tell the precise
date. He was not surprised at Croker
having $50 200, as there was plenty of
money at that time among people con-
nected with aldermen. Witness
did not see the money, but he did not
doubt Croker's statement. After finding
Tom Adams he brought him to Mr.. Cro-
sker 8 store and introduced him as a man
h. =, he
ahad. He took Croker and Adams up
stairs and left them there. In half an
hour or less Croker came down with
satohel still in his hands and said his
would not trust Adams. When Adams
came down he hurried out without saying
q word croker had said to him. There
were two aldermen whom he wanted TO
reach, and Tom Adams knew them.
Croker had subsequently said he had seen
these two aldermen, and he understood
that everything was satisfactory. "I
know, - he said, 'tthat somebody had
been SEEM
"Who were those aldermen?'
"Pierson and Wendell" sensation.
The cross examination ended at this
point, and it was generally conceded
MeCann came out of the ordeal unin-
jured, and that his ties timony had not
been shaken up to this point. Witness
said he had been on the best of terms
with Croker, his brother-in-lRw, until
Mayor Grant came in between them.
Cochran wanted to ask for more ques-
tons, and he got strong answer. Nc
Cam said: "Mr. Croker has been mis-
led by his advisers. men who held high
positions in the city. 1t is these men
who have driven him from his home and
family to-day. 1 refer to Mr.. Grant. 1
think it is a disgra &c to the city that
man like Mr.. Grant should be its
mayor. -
Mr.. Wins, witness, said that John B
Halloran had told him that the $50, 900
had been returned to those who con-
contributed it on the New Year follow
ing. He had received no induoement to
give testimony. Witness SAID he could
make charges which he did not care to
put forward voluntarily at present, and
'the less those gentlemen have TO
say, the better for themselves.
When pressed by Mr.. Wins he admit
ted having a conversation with Grant
about his connection with the Broadway
bribery in 1884.
Mayor Grant here arose and said he
wanted Mr.. Mccain to withhold nothing
nC hbVh COhOOAh AhuOGS ehSh
told of day when he, MIR. Grant and
Alderman Mooney, had been to lawyer s
office together and Mr.. Grant, referring
to the Broadway railroad bribery and of
his obligations TO Croker, said eff it had
not been for his advice I'd have been in
the deal with the other fellows, mean
ing, witness said, the aldermen who
accepted the brides. Grant, he said, sub
sequently repeated the same thing in the
presence of Mrs. MoCann and Mrs. Gro
ker. Mrs. Croker and witness had had
conversation in January or February,
1885, about the $3.50, 900 Mr.. Croker
brought to his store about month be-
fore. She told him Mr.. Croker had
brought home q large sum CT money
about that time, and she sat up at night
to guard it until he arrived at the house.
witness bad heard nothing to show it
was the same money.
Mr. MoCann's examination being con-
eluded, Mr.. Cochran called as witness
Jemes II. Durham, of Durham, RHck-
ley s. Co., dry goods merchants, who
testified he would not believe MoCaun
under oath if he had any motive to tes-
tify falsely.
A recess was here taken.
After recess the court room was even