Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-03-03


state funds as eXemplihed in making
the Clinton bank state depository
was discussed The president of that
bank. A. Woodland. was in Madison
May 81, 1892, and wrote a note signed
10y Clark and running TO Woodard
personally, bur which was dated June
,: on June (, Woodland signed the bond
making his bank state depository;
m June Z Clancy, BlShford and
Others (all virtual strangers to Wood
ARA signed that bond as sueties on
June Q. the state board of deposits
met and the Clinton bank was mad"
a depos lor}; on Juno he bank eut
Sl0.0Ou II state none on deposit, on
June ~ Banker Woodland sent $4,000
to Manager Clark of the Times for
which the latter had given his note
June = and OIL tune Is Clark received
the money from the bank
Mr.. DIN showed how the Times
company lad never been lawfully or
ganized, insofar as its articles of as
sociation had never been filed with The
register of deeds, and yet despite this
fact the Times company, on July Is,
put in q bid to do the state printing,
its articles not even being filed with
the secretary of state till July 10.
Mr. Olin forged link 10y link the chain
of facts binding together the vari
Gus defendants in the conspiracy, and
represented in forciblc language the
close official, business and personal re
lationhip existing between them, His
arrangement was very causuc and con-
viucing,
" hen Mr. Olu lou.aCl upon tn
Misrepresentation made by some of the
defendants to the effect that the roster
contract awarded to he Times would
produce rosters cheaper than under
the order given the state printer sew
eral years before attorney Chyuo
wcth objected to an argument on that
point being made to the jury, holding
thar the complaint contained no ailega.
tiol justifying it.; the court, however
ruled that the attorney for the plain
tins had a right to proceed on the
line he was pursuing and Mr.. Oliu CON
tinucd his terrible arraignmcut Of the
defendants
lie sprung decided sensation when
he exhibited a memorandum made by
CLARK about March >, and given to Me
Fail, showing Clark's estimate of
100000 profits on the 10000 sets of
rosters proposed to be ordered by the
governor aud hints as to other orders
to come later Mr. McFail in his
deposition taken at South Bend, Ind,
had testified that he had lost this very
important memorandum Clark Of
course read McFails deposition and
when his evidence was subsequently
taken, he fatty denied ever having
made any such memorandum Mr.,
McFail afterward found the misplaced
memorandum and Attorney DIN now
flashed 1t before the very eyes of the
dumfoundcd and disaredited Clark.
The clever enrapment Of Clark created
a sensation and the audience had to
be checked in its applause.
Mn. DIN lcXt told Of Mr.. McFairS
first visit TO Attorney General O'Con-
nor between March 18Th ana March
18th, 20 obtain his opinion as to the
legality Of the proposed roster printing
contract. Mr.. O'Connor in his dopoS,-
lion catcgorically denied any such in
tclAicw, declaring that he never h3i
talk with NcFai about the matter
till April It'll or Stl But Mr. Olin
said he would show Mr. O'Couuor had
not told the truth, as il J., i'm evidence
that Mcl'ail and one of the Bows
went 10 Bushford as early as March
2Sth or Goth, with memorandum
which they then freely talked about
as coming from O'Conuor asking him
U}ashforu to look up the bearing Of
the so-called Sholcs ease on the pro
posed roster contract.
Mr.. Oln then went into the cost Of
roster printing. and demonstrated the
fact that, under the present state con
tract, the order given by the governor
To- the Times at Sl.9O per volume could
have been executed by the state
printer at about 20 cents per volume
and even under the old contract i'm
force when the first edition was
printed at s. - cents per volume
dlib AFl lllN uflfilNJUlN lldN IHbtiulllfN
II far and wide that at $50 d vol
ume, they would save TO the state more
than one dollar a volume,
Ar DIN characterized Col Clark as
a Eaturalboru schcmer. sharp, slrewd
and plausible. else he could not have
billlcd the Clinton bank ont of $1,000
and Senator Mitchell out Of $4,000. all
without q cents worth Of security.
lie classed Doe as next 10 Clark i'm
the roster iobbery with BaShford a
close third He read with telling effect
Does significant letter to O'Connor
soliciting the latters opinion as to
whether a contract other than with the
state printer would be valid and the
attorney generals even more signi-
ficnt reply which artfully pointed ont
the way in which the job might he
taken ont from Under the regular
printing contract and" Numbered
the speaker, the price Of the work
and the favorite to whom the contract
was TO be let had all been previously