Bridgeton pioneer., 1895-04-18
CLERK HULME CONFESSES.
He Received a Bonus From
Banks on State Funds.

He Received a Bonus From
Banks on State Funds.
TRENT ON, April 16, 1s95.-The Sen.
ate Iave.ttgs ting Committee to-day
bsgan an ir quiry into the newspaper
reports thst interest or bonus money
had been paid upon State deposits in
the different banks In Burlington
county. Exist. to Tree surer John J.
Totfy, who W In Office from 1885 to
1891, WIS called. He aid the st t,
was borrower during his entire term
to the extent of about $400.0e0. The
State paid about four per cent. The
question of temporary loans never
came up. Hs selected the banks In
which deposits were made. He was
asked by friends to make deposits In
various banks, but he never did so
until he had first examined the condi-
tion of the banks. He had never re-
ceived any interest or compensation
for making deposits, nor had he ever
authorized any one else to do so. No
money had ever been lost through his
deposits. M. Toffey made defense
OF his own cout Sc In regard to Ford's
bills. and sort of defense for Ford.
State Treasurer Swain also denied
that he had received any such interest
or that he knew of any one who had.
Joseph Hulme, the present Chief
Clerk of tie State Treasurer's offlse,
who 50 meme has been connected with
the rumois, IVES called to the stand.
He made clean breast, substantie ting
the rumors, and said he had been the
sole beneficiary. None of the Safe
Treasurers under whom he served
knew anything about the money being
received. Hume said he accepted the
money as personal contributions to
himself. This money he spent for
political purposes, and for taking care
Of himself politically. Hulme lives in
Mt. Holly. Hume was actively identi-
fed with one of the Republican fac
tions In Burlington county. The
bonus were the Union National, Far
mers' National and the Mount Holly
National, of Mount Holly, and the
Moorestown Trust and Safe Deposit
Company, of M oorestown. The total
amour received by him In this way,
Hulme said, amounted to between
$4,000 and $4,000 year from 1890 to
1894
A number of the officials of the
banks me toned In Hulme's tei timony
went on the stand and In the main cor
roborated Hume. Some of the direc.
tors did not know the bonus money
was being paid.
When the question of the State
printing, which was under considera-
tion when the committee adjourned
last Friday, was taken up, Otto Heinz
was recalled to the stand. He testified
that Lawyer Frank McDermott, who
appeared ss his counsel on Friday.
had not been employed to act, and
that McDermott had not rendered his
firm any service except to get through
the Legislature a bill, for which he
charged $2O95. Mr.. Heinz, when ques-
toned as to his failure to bid for print
ing State reports in German In 1898,
said he refrained from doing so In con-
sidera tlon of $500 received from John
L. Kuser, who got the contract.
Mr.. Heinz swore that he afterwards
returned to Kuser $3.50 of this money,
because Kuser complained that he had
not got all the work he expected to
under his bid. The cancelled check
which Heinz gave to Kuser was then
put In evidence.
Charles 8. Robinson, of Princeton,
who bid low on two reports In 1898,
testified that he Withdrew .his bids,
and that he got the printing of one of
the books from Kuser at the higher
price of rs cents, his bid having been
45 cents, and that he got $500 In con-
sidera tion of giving up the other bid
of So cents,
Editor Krautter, OF the Newark
Deutsche Zestung, testified that the
same year Kuser paid him $500 not to
bid.