The San Francisco call., 1895-11-13

of witnesses brought against Attorney
II. S. Mackaye, Warren P. Freeman
aud Wallace F. Freeman, but from
the trend OF the investigation it is believed
that if any indictments at all are returned
they will be against II. S. Mackaye and
Warren P. Freeman for intimidating
witnesses.
Walter K. Freeman, the plaintiff in the
Freeman-W Westinghouse patent case, who
brought the alleged corruption to the
notice of the Federal authorities. was the
first witness summoned to appear before
the secret investigating body, which since
its last sitting has lost the valuable SER
vices of H. ]. Summerhayes, the electrical
expert of the Grand Jury, because like the
parrot which attempted to take a fail out
OF the Tammany tiger, he talked too much.
The witness reviewed his past work in
the electrical field and gave the general
situation in electrical matters to show the
importance OF the issue involved and the
temptation to use every possible means to
win. Under the guise OF showing the gen.
eral reputation OF Warren z. Freeman he
went into the career OF the alleged con-
spirator and brought to light some new
and startling testimony. Among other
things he charged that Warren P. Free
man was one OF the principals in the
notorious and fraudulent electric sugar re-
fining deal, the center of whose operations
was Philadelphia, and for participation IN
which his co-conspirator Friend is now
serving a sentence OF nine years and six
months in Sing Sing Prison.
Warren 2. Freeman takes pride in being
addressed as Doc" and having the gem
eral reputation of being regularly ac-
credited healer OF the sick, but Walter, in
his testimony yesterday, stated that the
notice and without the slightest right to
1t. The first the witness knew of the new
dignity assumed by his brother was
through letter, dated April 81, 1881, in
which Warren requested to be addressed
as DR.. Warren ?. Freeman.
Then Walter K. told of forgeries he al
legged Warren ?. had committed while in
the employ of the Wheeler & Wilson Ma
chine Company at Albany n. Y, and
which, he claimed, were prevented from
becoming public scandal by the father,
who sacrificed a competence to pay various
forged notes altered by Warren.
Witness also went over the present asso-
citation of Warren ?. and said the latter
had urged him to Join the Westinghouse
Company against the Fort Wayne Eiectri-
cal Corporation, asserting there was $50, 900
in it for witness.
Alexander H. Freeman was also n wit
ness before the Grand Jury. He detailed
the manner in which he was as he alleged.
fraudulently induced to come to this CITY
by means of the fake rubber company
scheme used by II. S. Mackaye, alias Viii
liam St eele.
The general purport of their whole ar
rangement, he said, was 10 cause him
such great mental distress as to conhne
him to bed with an attack of nervous
prostration. He stated that he knew
Warren p. Freeman, his brother. was ouite
capable of concocting the necessary scheme
TO make 1t appear that he had voluntarilv
or through offers of money. agreed to
change his former testimony, but that he
had not done so and aid not intend 10 do
so. He also averred that since he came to
San Francisco at the requast of Warren.
presumably on pleasure trip, he had
been by trick and device subjected to all
kinds of humiliations.
He further testified that for a long time
after he arrived in San Francisco II. S.
Maekaye masquersded as William Steele
ana pretended to be a capitalist and able
to invest 100000 IN the rubber company.
As the result of his association with
Warren p. Freeman, Wallace E. Freeman
and II. S. Mackaye since his arrival in this
City be asserted that he had come to the
conclusion that Warren P. Freeman was
unworthy of belief; that Wallace E. Free
man consented to commit perjury for the
money he was to be paid for doing so, and
that he is merely tool acting under the
instructions of both Warren 2. Freeman
and II. IS. Mackaye and that ii. S. Mackaye