The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-10-18


promise of place he voted at the cleo
ton. He said he is now employed
on the Scrantonian and has been for
about six weeks. But before that he
was employed as a miner. Before
entering the employ OF the paper he
frequently furnished Little and o'Toolc
! with information on which they based
articles for the Scrantonian.
O'Grady said he testified in the
| Langstan election contest in July, 1885,
| but could not remember the nature of
his testimony. In rebuttal the notes
Of the evidence taken before the cleo
| tion contest commissioners was Of
| fered in evidence and it appeared that
| O'Grady told the commissioners that
| he received no money or other valu-
able thing for his vote at the fall cleo
| ton in 1897. This showed that
| O'Grady swore to an untruth yester-
| day or when he testified in the cleo
| ton contest In July, 1898. OGrady
also admitted that he served a term
| in the county jail.
| NJ. j. O'Toole was sworn and said
| he has been associate editor OF the
| Scrantonian since the middle of last
February. In July his duties were
that of gathering and writing news,
| acting in the capacity of associate edi-
tor and reporter For his services
he was paid SIS week OToole de-
MED that on Aug. 5 last he had a con-
versation with Deputy Constable ia
cob Gilman In which he admitted that
he wrote up Colonel Ripple. He also
denied that he had anything to do
with the writing OF the editorial COM
plained OF.
ON CROSS-E S-EXAMINATION.
| The witness was cross-examined by
Mr.. Kelly and said that before he en-
tered the employ of the Scrantonian,
while employed on the Times, he fire.
quently gave the Scrantonian items
of news that he could not use in the
Times or give due prominence to in
the columns of that paper He has
no interest in the paper other than
his salary and he never told any one
that he had. When on the Times
he had a salary Of s17 a week He
was asked by Mr.. Kelly if he left the
Times to accept a smaller salary on
the SCrantonian because the work was
more congenial. The question was OBJ
jected to and the objection was sus-
| tanned.
| O'TOole admitted that as matter
of fact he was not an editor, merely
acting as a gatherer and writer of
news. He never had any knowledge
as to who the owners of the paper
were. He never wrote an editorial
for the paper and does not know who
wrote the editorials. That work was
done by different persons. He knew
this because he saw editorials in the
handwriting of different persons. Ed
itorials We're written by persons not
connected with the regular staff OF the
paper. He never wrote an article
for the Scrantonian which contained
the name Of Colonel Ripple except in
| reporting meetings or in a general
political story.
Charles letter testified that he had
a talk with Little in June with ref.
erence to Colonel Ripple He told
Little that he got money from Colonel
Ripple for political purposes. That
was all he told Ripple. He dill not
specify the amount or what the
money was to be used for.
LITTLE ON THE STAND.
Richard ]. Little, the editor of the
Scrantonian was called to the stand
and sworn and was examined by At
tOrneY Lenahan. The witness said he
is editor and publisher OF the Scranton
ian. He was editor and part prophet
or of the paper since it's first issue in
1897 and since February of this year
when his partner, James Mahon, re-
tired from the business, he has been
| sole proprietor. No one else has q.
financial interest In it. The witness
then went on to tell of the conversa-
tiOns he had with persons who told him
that Colonel Ripple had used money
in politics.
He first referred to G. G.. Roland.
! During the last year he had many con-
versations with Mr. Boland The lat
ter told him that during the last three
campaigns money was used in politics
iii this city; that men went from Dem
ocratic to Republican headquarters
and obtained money and brought
! it back to Democratic head
quarters and contributed it to
the campaign fund. Who the money
was obtained from did not appear.
Little could not give the details Of his
conversations with Mr. Boland. These
details were SO numerous he could not
| remember them. Tho witness then
said that in conversation with Mayor
James Moir the mayor told him that
he knew certain police officers received
money from Colonel Ripple to be used
in politics. He mentioned Jas. Feeney
and M. j, Walsh as two Of the officers.
The mayor also told him that Colonel
Ripple had written to man named
McQueeney in which the latter was
! offered a position. They tried to get
the letter for publication but failed.
He had a conversation with Wade
M. Finn but what Finn said was OF a
general nature about the buying OF
votes.
TALKED WITH FELLOWS.
During June, July and afterwards
Ahe had frequent conversations with
| exMayor John II. Fellows who told
him that Daniels and Reese and others
had received money from Colonel
| Ripple to be used in corrupting voters.
| Nothing further was elected from him
by Mr.. Lenahan
He was then turned over to Mr.. Kelly
for cross examination. The examina-
tion was most searching and thorough
| and demonstrated that Mr.. Kelly is
unusually clever in that branch OF his
profession, There was no attempt on
his part to bully or browbeat the wit
ness. He asked plain, concise questions
and insisted on like answers. When
Little tried evasion he found it was
useless. Mr.. Kelly pursued him with
| his question until an answer had been