New-York tribune., 1892-04-28
THIS rs TIE INJURED OH4LLOR1N
WHAT WEIGHT HIS CENsURE or DIR. PARK
nrR.T HASl l-CONTRAnICTING MITcMELL.

WHAT WEIGHT HIS CENSURE or DIR. PARK
HURT HAS -CoNTRADrCTIyG MITCHELL.
Dennis Washington OIIaOran. who the secre
;ary OF the Grand Jury which cenSnred the Rev. Dr.
parkhulSt for his charges against the police ex
nmined In supplementary proceedings before Thomas
GiIleran, referee at the Emigrlnt industrial SavngI
Bank building in Chambers ST.. yesterday, on judS
mcnt obtained by Mrs Betsy Becker for hons, rent
O'IIalloran Is The who ;ied 20 get L. J.. Godkn
Editor OF "The Evening POST indicted for criminal
libel lie proved TO be Just such a might
expect Tammany would Ike 10 have for secretary Of
a Grand Jury which was 10 examine into IFS enforce
ment Of the law against diveIe.pers lie testified
TINT. with the exception Of years all his business
life had been spent a liquor dealer. lie had kept
hotel at No. 10 East Broadway, and had liquor storo
In one hundred-and tenth.st since 1850, when he
failed In the furniture business, he had been cared for
by his wife and friends. His wife bad real estate.
O'linlorsp was anxious 10 appear 20 be gentleman
and denounced the who, when dependent on their
wives for support had only ten cents for carfse at
time.
My wife gives oil the money want said he.
- Yes all | want. She don't limit me to ten cents for
carfure. She pays for my cocktails can go around
with the boys. she gives money plenty OF it
When asked II she gave him enough TO pay bis Just
debts. he answered. Yon can't expect her to pas
my debts your
O'llalloran asked how much money he paid
Peter Mitchell retainer in the Godlin case. That
aroused his Ire and rs denounced the qncStioner ~
too fresh and said. L" II you're trying to fish out
facts to help Godkin that's thing: but that's got
nothing 10 do with the question whether I've got any
money or not" The referee thought the question per
unent and O'Ialloan said. "Wcll didn't pay Judge
Mitchell a cent
Did you not contract TO pay himl'
NO, ! never promised to pay him a cent.
NChiIg was said about pay went to him and he
took the case. Lawyers like b work f0r OF
course expected that he would send his BILL
How did IL come about that he undertook your
withOn. retanerl7
He kncw-he was dealing with a gentleman. Law
yers all like me. They like me to 90 round with
them aud drink. The divll Of II cent DO promise to
pay anybody They do II for lovr.'
O'lnllOran absolutely refused TO say whether or
not he knew Mr.. Mitchell before he employed him
in the Godkln case. The examination adjourned
until IL H. Tuesday.
O'lIalloran's statement places Peter Mitchell In
peculiar position. O'Ialloran says he never pad
Mitchell "a cent, and never promised to do so, but
Mitchell. in nm interview published in The World
on March ~ is quoted ~ saying: II Godkln says
Inspired this suit |. + le never O'lIa )ran
I'm my life before he came 10 my once week ago Just
before | went to Washington lie Introduced himself
10 me- and asked IL ! knew the law OF hbel.
said did. Then he snid he wanted 10 retain me IN
an notion against Godkin. have absolutely no In
icrest I'm the case beyond that Of u lawyer who ims
received Il good stout retainer