The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-11
EUGENE MURPHY's CAREER.
The Voorhees, Committee Witness
Wanted 5000 for Fridays Story.

The Voorhees, ConHifttee WIthess
Wanted 5000 for Fridays Story.
| In speaking of the testimony before the
Investigation Committee at Trenton on
Friday. the New York World this
| morning says
Eugene j. Murphy, ex-bookkeeper for
| the Senate Inves tigating Committee last
| Friday, has very convenientt, memory; en- Ky
Last Aggust he visited g. the office hegtn OF tine me
or@af0g rgardog Tnl'a 1he swedlng m a Of ss5s
| by Surst. B. ]. Ford and the hrm Wlth
| Ehich he had been connected
| He demanded $500 for his facts; re
( represented that the firm OF Mullins q
| from 1883 to 1894 carpets and other o fgr- 5nn
niture for which they. received $l0O,0 wy;
| on this amount he said they far nad pa pafd
Murphys offer was submitted, !, to "a the e
| could @ prove his story. A reporter, was was
| assigned to accompany MIN ana anu nm
Murphy informed this reporter that ne
wanted the $500 TO buy race morse
Mullins & Co. and that. Mr.. Moriarity
when confronted with his MS orrabora sMurpny 81 81
them He asked for two days time 70
put his charges in writing, ana at me
L
aWorid" eleven pages of manuscript. His
production, not all of which was ger
main to the Sssrionfi Sseriofion peaaa e SCENE in
the the furniture store of Mullins & CO.,
Nov. i, 1888. Mr.. Mullins. according +, to
parthers, las pa2sr' and l had vested his son with
authority over Mr.. Moriarity. This quar-
rel, the writer said das had dseeP p slgnih, 4e N
| a disconnected way of the. discovery OF
the mutiiation of the firms books and
summoning. Of the, police, who were un-
! able %oTHER e 9ra SiFs MAN NAN iDRAGGED IN.
| zone thing, however. did reveal ltselI,
| continued Murphy in his paper, 'as a re-
| suit of their (the police) endeavors Inat
| IS that Mullins son was seen Watching
about the store at l;so a A. I'M M hooks oI tne
| Continuing Murphy wrote that some
body had to suffer, 50 he (Murphy} was was
ilsIs he was not suspected of mutllating the
tsorft aontinues, for his discharge was his
| whom Mullins had quarreled, and his
| knowIedge of the State House rascalities.
| The furnishing of the State House, ne
| wrote was a gold mine for the hr1n, ana
| Continuing, he told of furniture having
| been sent to ex-senator M 4. Barrett
| of Newark and charged TO the State'
| and he added
HIt so happened that ex-Assemblynan
| James Moyian was architect at the state
l
| there, and thought he would like to have
| his Office on Palisade avenue furnished
with the same material. This was very es,,
| after Mr.. Moylan was presented With
| bill of eighty odd dollars. which scne-
what ruled the m eS+AssemolMymaRn; m Mr n,Sino Wno
| stating it was agreed he was not TO pay
for it. The letter was given to the bool-
keeper, who .si was Instructed TO consider
'ne PAID PAID FOR BY THE STATE.
| Continuing, the writer says, that Moy-
the sae snd he o te
| now Mullins ordered him one day to
figure up the State House account SO
t fHsa NJ. ; he he says says, and commission
amounting. to more than 5000 and less
than $4,000 was paid to Ford. The
1 Moriarty. In conclusion, he notes some
/ of the high prices charged to the State,
and expresses the, opinion that somebody
! After Murphy had prepared the state
| n1ent. his attention, was called to the
fact that he had !. first rs. said that Fords
ten statement he placed the commits rs
sion somewhere between 5000 and SO, 600.
Murphy said erphatieaily that Ford got
| SO 600 or more as commission on sales
himself q number Of times regarding
| saying it was paid by check and some
times denying his written statement, and
| admitting he did not know how payment
was made.
When asked to go, as he had agreed,
| to Mr.. Moriarity for corroboration of his
charges, he declined to accompany the
reporter. Mr.. Moriarity was seen, how
ever. and that gentleman admitted his
4 relationship to Murphy Moriarity said
that Murphy was light in his mind
crazy on race-traek gambling and un-
| reliable. Murphy, he said, had threat
ened to put a dynamite bomb under
Moriarity denied all of Murphy's charges,
| and invited an inspection of the firms
/ books.
I Murphy was then told by the World,
that unless he could in some way cor
4 roberate his charges they could not be
suggested that he go to Trenton with a
/ reporter and go over the accounts He
consented, ans Comptroller Hancock
permitted an Inspection Of the State
finished Murphy dictated an affidavit for
publication, which covered the testimony
he gave before the committee on FRI
day. 49,, ,.e,,, 4ra
i His attention was called to the fact
that his figures Offered from those of
the state; that if Ford received a 10 per
4 cent. commission of 1890 the sales must
have been $73,0o5 whereas the State
House records showed that Mullins &
geabher only $4,000.
ssOh.'' said Murphy, .cheerfully. the
State books are wrong
His attention was called to the fact
Comptroller and State Treasurer were
# also dishonest, but he stuck to his state
ment that the States accounts were in
correct Asked how he came to say at
wards only s, 300. he could offer no ex-
lplanatton. He also contradieted himself