The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-25
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mn anyone could 90 tnat work Tor
should. I'll see you again said Mr..
Kuser, as he left me. - TO-,
continued the witness, 81 met Mr.. Kuser
again. and 1 offered him the whole work
both .volumes-if he would take 1t at
any price. and relieve me of my trouble.
He again examined the bids and said he
because I feared that I would be de-
barred from again bidding on State work
If I did not carry out my contract. I
did not know Mr.. Kuser, only by seeing
him at the State House once or twice.
On December u I came to Trenton again
to see the Comptroller. 1 intended stat
Is,a the &c ease to him and asking to be re
tain the two smaller reports.
MEETS KUSER.
AT the State House / met Mr.. Kuser.
I told him what my errand was and
that Intended giving up the work. The
that day. Mr.. Kuser and myself talked
the matter over at some length, and I
said | WOULD 4 to put in a plant
right to bid on other contracts. / had
bid upon the work on the basis of a nom
union town and a non-union scale of
wages. After 1 had bid l learned thai
the union price for German work was
one-half greater than that pad for
u asked Kuser," the witness said. sif
he could not help me if I threw up the
contract, and he got it at his price. which
| was 76 cents per thousands ems. He said
ne didn't see how he could. nor why he
work: I told him of the great expense
man printer whom would like to keep
at work. He said, lOh. well, if you give
up and the Freie Zeitung gets the con-
sion, but not more than five per cent.
We couldn't afford more on one report
| told him there were two volumes of the
/ eQuc2tlOE T6DOrt.
He said. Wen, We'll give you $500 if we
get the report, but there is only one. I
a " said Mr.. Robinson continued.
and I asked him if he would mind put
drew qp the first contract:
SEES THE COMPTROLLER.
Robinson then told of his interview
with the Comptroller and release from
the contract
refused to divide the contract and give
him the workshop report, and had to give
up an or none. SO ne save up al
Mr.. Kuser and told him that I had not ex-
pected that l would have to give up all
e6 omean nepe eoaja I let 5ol he him Work ! T fhq n Y 5sI his
It tie at n once. '0T Then pflo saaidi | T9 Wonld 81 ike al'f to-
He said: Oh. yes; it's only a small job,
ANYHOW, and l don't care anything about
that,
well, what price will you give to
Whatever the State pays me- he re-
"sNow, maybe you want that in writ
ing, too?' he added. Come over here and
II give It to you on paper We then
stepped ofB lnto a 5hs f s5ate R Rqar Ru Of AS wTefe
the second small contract on the printed
paper of that office. agreeing to give me
the Workshop reports"
HWere Won Influenced in any waV 10
withdraw your bid by reason of the
contracts or agreements between Mr..
Kuser and yourself?' asked Mr.. Linda
bury.
q! was not. I couldn't do the work and
had decided to give it up, if I could do
On cross-examination by Captain Holt,
Mr.. Robinson said tina he put his bid
for the Board of Education and that of
although they were a o N separate
blanks.
He said that the $500 which Kuser paid
him was a pure gratuity. as was also
the profit which he made by printing the
report of the Inspector of Factories and
Workshops which Kuser rave to him.
the stand. Foreman Frank Q. Briggs
asked him whether or not the Comptro1l-
er, in any of his conversation with him,
be awarded to the next lowest bidder, or
would be readvertised. Mr.. Robinson
said hat the Comptroller did not talk
~ 'nA' s SUNNI SG n !" BEGAN.
Several witnesses then testified to Rob
inson,s good character and the defense
rested. Captain Holt began the sum
ming up for the prosecution.
He traced the various steps of the al
so as to form the chain which the State
lain to have proven Then he added:
1.-THE proof of. conspiracy can seldom
be more definitely proved than by infer
ence.
.The man who by a course of conduct
takes certain steps which led to a GER
connected with tina result. He may say
that he meant to do nothing; that it
was a gratuity.
public. crib for a number of years and
had always succeeded in coming out
proftably, but this year he made a mis-
H went to a livery stable keeper and
much about the matter. After he had
had agreed to give him $500, he decides
that he must give up the contract.
Robinson Acknowledges that he made
$500 profit, and he calls it a gratuity:
IF you decide that that $500 had moth
ing to do with the withdrawing of Rob
inson's bid and the substitution of Ku-
ser's, then we have no case.
Captain Holt enlarged upon the social
standing and character of Mr.. Kuser
and the necessity for his preserving them
fsns going upon the stand IN his own de-
Mr.. Kalisch objected to Captain Hollis
remarks, because he said that the law
allowed a defendant his option with
reference to going on the witness stand.
Captain Holt concluded with an ap- !
pea AR e IN 5ar Fo 5Rr T rpnSlGs5HR;
The summing up was begun by Judge
Chauncey H.. Beasley. of counsel for Ku-
ser. His argument was able and eloquent
and complete in its detail. In referring to
the matter of circumstancial evidence, he
said there must be a complete chain.
If the one Of the links is missing, the
whole chain must fall. He said that
the State would have the Jury infer
that because Kuser entered into an
argument with Robinson there was
fraudulent interest.
In explanation of why Kuser was not
put on the stand, Judge Beasley said
that the testimony of Robinson, Kuser's
c~o-defendant, was SO clear and was so
honestly given that there was no neces- |
sity for Kuser to go on the stand merely
to corroborate the testimony of a man
whose reputation for truth and veracity
has been proven beyond dispute.
Judge Beasley was followed by Nh.
Lindabury, of counsel for Robinson. His
~eloouence was impressive. He traced the
various transactions of his client with
Kuser and with the Comptroller, and
showed them to be ordinary business
and friendly transactions. His mistake
in making out his bid was an honest one,
as shown by his willingness to fulfill his
SPEEDY A~CQUITTAL.
The summing up in the trial of Kuser,
conspiracy for conspiracy to defraud the
State in connection with a prinfino con-