The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-03-04

father. Then both his father and Edward
McGovern died and the property was
sold At public auction. Before this sale
he told the neighbors not to bid on IL as
1t was TO be bought In for his mother.
He saw Mr.. Burke who offered to buy 1t
Mr.. Burke did not bid II in at the sale,
but as Mr.. Hahn wanted it and the Nc
Donalds and Others bid on il the price
run'1up to $3.50, SO his mother told Mr..
Burke that she could not take 1t, as the
price was too high.
"Then," pueried General Wilson, "Mr.
Burke bought the property for your
mother and not for himelf."
Yes sir. i"
"And the reason she didn't take II was
because the price went beyond the point
she thought she could pay for it?"
"Yes, SIR"
Mr.. Wilson then read the names at
asked the witness II he knew the persons
mentioned and he answered in the affirm
ative as TO nearly all OF them.
"Did you have any talk with Mr..
Young about the granting OF the Burke
licep se?".
"Yes, sir, have"
"About when was i.f'
"Right after the Dorsey application.
"Where did this talk take placer
SIN his own house"
'Then you were familiar enough with
him TO go TO his own house?"
"Yes, sir, ! went there two or three
times a week."
"when you first had talk with him
was Ii before or after the Dorsey remon-
sirances had been made that is, before
or after june or s, 1882"
81 think it was while the first remon-
STRANGE was being gotten up"
IN FOR THE NovETY OF 1T.
.Did you talk with Young about itG"
"What did he say"
81 asked him why he got into the re-
monstrance when he wasn't within two
hundred feet and he said for the novelty
of IL"
Anything else?"
''Then it went along until Burke ap-
Piled"
"What did Young say about that?'
"He said that IL Baxter had asked for a
license there il would have been all right.
STRANGE against him and he said, Il
would sign it SO as to get bold OF the re-
monstrance, but it would never get TO
the license commissioners.
"What did he mean by that?"
"That he would sign 20 that the Others
wouldn't tumble and would then hold on
to it,"
"In substance, then, he was in favor of
Baxter?"
eyes; he said if Baxter applied it would
have been all right"
cd. Ibid y, you have any otter talk with him
she said that if anybody but the Dor
seys Lad asked for a license he would
have got II"
"Did he say II anyone else applied he
would help him to get license?"
~ don't know he did,"
"Did he say he would help Baxter in
any other.way than by holding on to the
remonstrance?'
"No, that was ALL"
"What talk did he have about Burke,
and was there any one present when the
conversation occurred?n
81 told him Burke had bought the place
and i asked him why he didn't keep out
OF the remonstTance. He said:
"'Those id fools wouldn't know
how to engineer it without me-. Final
ly, when the license was granted he
seemed to get wild entirely. He said he
had shut up place on Dyer street that a
man named Moroney handled. He made
a remark about having the police so they
couldn't say boo, and that with Mr.. Clark
and MIR. Fuller behind him he could down
Burke as well as Moroney."
.Did he have any further talk?"
''He said 1t would be great thing to
have such bird as Tobias Burke brought
down by common, ordinary painter"
"How long did you continue TO talk
with him about these mattersf"
WOULDN'T PRINT A REPLY.
, "Until he published that piece in The
''Did Young publish a piece in The
Journal?'
"Yes. He published a piece saying
that there never had been a saloon in that
vicinity"
"When was that?"
"October %, think; but that young
man can tell you exactly" pointing TO
The Journal representative"
"Do you mean Mr.. Rosenfeld?"
"Yes. / tried to get him to publish
correction, but he SAID there was too
much politics in 1t. Then waited until
after election and went to him again.
Then he objected becs use the correction
was written on both sides of the paper
/ asked him il copied it on one side il
he would publish it,and he said he would.
Then j took IL to him again and he said
he would have to consult the managing
editor. That's the last heard of 1t; but
it wasn't published"
"Did Mr.. Rosenfeld have anything to
say ABOUT 1OunB!
Eyes; he spoke pretty well in Young's
favor"
"Did he have anything further to say
to your"
"Yes, he said he understood 7 didn't
live In that neighborhood now. He SEEM
ed to be pretty well posted"
Mr.. Mccarthy interrupted with an OBJ
lection at this point and he and Gen. VIII
son were arguing when Chairman Fuller
announced that the committee had no
time tor that sort of thing and requested
Gen. Wilson to proceed with the exami-
nat ion of the witness.
GREAT SENSATION.
"Had you any other talk about this mat
ter with Young?"
"Yes. Young asked me IL had ever
heard OF such sensation IN Providence
before"
"When was that?"
"Right after the mandamus. ] asked
him IL he was satisfied that the Supreme
Court had endorsed the license commits
sioners. He said he didn't care,a d.
what the Supreme Court had done. IL
three or four as good schemers as he was
got together they could down Tobias
Burke,p