The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-18
MULLINS DEFENCE.
Counsel Argues His Right
to Get Any Price
He Gould,
NO SIGN 0FEeoNsPIRACY
Ford's Criminality Evident but
Not That th jersey City
Man Was His Ally.
snccfnl to the .crseu Citn Ne,rs.

TRENTON Oct. Is, 01S95.-When thc
Court resumed the hearing yesterday
afternoon in the case of the State against
John Mullins. the furniture dealer OF
Jersey City. charged with defraudins
the State by charging extravagant prices
for f~urnitnrei supplied to- the State House
via. Barney Ford. Eugene L. Murphy
the sporty ex-bookmaker. was placed or
the stand.
He was shown a number of bills Oh
Mullins & Co.. from the State Comp
t~rollerss office. fdentifed the hand
writing of three of them as that OF
Daniel Moriarity. I'VE of the bills he
remembered having made out without
prices. They now appear in Moriarity's
handwriting with prices. Thu reason for
there being no prices5in the bills as made
out by witness was that there We're no
prices in the books from which he copied
the bills. Mullins bank account was at
the First National Bank in Jersey City,
in the name of John Mullins. Witness
was discharged the day after the Novem-
Der election. 1898. because he played the
races.
.-Cross-examined by Mr.. Beasley. he said
he owned three race horses. kept a bank
account n had had as high as $500 or
@oO III al OAIG LIN - @1ANe
he had testified that the conversation
he a with Mullins was in 1898. before
the Senate Committee: also that Mullins
asked him to figure up the States ac-
count for Ford's benefit. and that he
had lone so and gave the figures to
Mullins; also that a check was drawn
by Moriarity. AS a matter of fact. he
remembered that Moriarity was not in
Jersey City at thai time. Witness had
offered to sell the story of the Mullins
case to the New York "World" for $500.
He did not get the money. however. He
wrote a statement of the case and did
not know what became of it. He came to
Trenton with John F. Norton. the Jersey
City representative of the World" to
make the written statement.
THE INFORMER'S FEE.
Witness said the reason he wanted to
sell the story was to get even with Null
Inns for discharging him. He never
wanted money from Mullins. He was
paid for testifying before the Senate
Committee. He got more than $500.
Mr.. Beasley handed the witness a let
ter and asked him if it was dictated by
him. The witness said it was not. He
was asked if he had dictated any part of
the letter. and replied that he had not
and had no knowledge of it. Mr.. Beasley
tried to make him say the letter was
written by one Wood
On redirect by Mr.. Holt, the witness
said he had known Wood since January
of this year. 9 Wood a approached
him in Brooklyn to have him join him
self and John Morris sand one Patterson
in working Mullins for money. He was
also told by ohm Morris that there was
sail kinds IF poonay in If ;, md That fhaU
were going to do the witness. They
talked of $500, and said there was more.
Witness, learned thai Morris was not a
man to be trusted, and that he was going
to take the money and then laugh at
were in the case to get what money out
CosT OF FURNITURE.
Jersey School and Church Furniture
Company. saidr1fe had made furniture
for PUBLIC buildings for twenty years;
both stock made and specially made.
Mr.. Stockton then took up the items
of bills; four dozen oak chairs, Sl44: was
bought for s2 a dozen.
The witness went through all the items
House in this manner. stating that the
values were usually about one hundred
per cent. less than Mullins charged for
them.
C~ross-examined by Mr.. H~offman-The
witness could not recall to whom he had
sold three desks like he had just APP
A. V. Manning followed this witness
and also gave values for furniture and
carpets much less than was charged by
Mullins; IN many instances over a hun
dred per cent. less, and in some instan-
ces giving a larger value than had been
given by the witness Mckee and in other
Instances giving a smaller value. Both
these witnesses were crosS-examined at
tiresome length, but their testimony was
q 1ol ban in M no
s9 aeorge m NJ a. W Raffle@la1i of the firm of
Cooper & Williamson, furniture dealers,
Z !, the th next b,,,v witness mes soa He also also went
had charged from Is to $50 per
cent, saying the goods could have been
furnished at the time at the prices he
C-ross-examined by Judge Hoffman-He
he had no way of arriving at
ToDAY's PROCEEDINGS.
The third day of the trial opened in
this morning. ]. Wesley Wilson, carpet
dealer of Trenton. witness for the State,
testified that he had examined the fur
had found S5 yards of carpet 7515 yards
of border and 326 yards of lining. He
&C. could ID not ra5,, state snd the he Grade t;n5e q Of the carpet Is,g
He was of the opinion that the carpet
three years ago was worth S225 a yard,
or when made and laid $3.50 a yard.
The rugs in the room he estimated as
worth $50 each.
On cross-exa animation by Judge Hoff-
man. he said the carpet was of poor
appearance. but he could not say that it
was not a Wilton. fS
Joseph b. Pierson, crier of the State
and county courts. testified that the desks
and chairs supplied by Mullins & Co.
are still in the Supreme Court rooms,
Vredenburgh, by cross-examination.
developed the fact that the desks. had
been made to order End that other roeme
than that measured by J. Wesley
were used by the Supreme Court.
James Haney. a former employee of the
House. Captain John Burley. AS
Custodian of the State House
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