The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-05-24
THE LAST PUBLIC HEARING
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nary person would believe that story" MT. O'Neil-"You kept MT Dennis in your employ after that story was cir
 culated did you not?"
 Yes sir, he told me that he had not said anything of the kind and believed him."
 | MT. Kenealy-"Did you deposit at any one time during the spring of last year as much as $15,O00 at one time with any banker?"
 q see fit to answer that question by saying l did not
 And did you in any one week deposit with several bankers amounts aggregat- | ing $25, ,OOO?"
 "No sir.''
 MT ONeil then called Henry c. O'Sullivan, who had been previously | sworn.
 MT. O'Sullivan said that he first heard of the $50,000 transaction about a year ago. He was employed in the editorial department of the New Haven Union and heard that MT. Alloway came from New York and took MT Dennis home and that MT. Dennis had been drinking. He thought that strange as MT. Dennis was not a drinking man. A few days
 after he heard that MT. Dennis had been showing large sums of money in the Hotel Savoy and the Gem cafe in New
 Haven and saying that he made it out of the settlement of the Aetna suit. He next heard it in the latter part of last June, a day or two before he ceased working on the Union Last January witness was walking to a train in New Haven with Robert Murphy and they met MT. Dennis. and MT. Murphy said: There goes a lucky man" Witness then said that MT. Murphy told him that MT. Dennis had told him that he had received 1000 from Governor
 Bulkeley and that the money had been divided among several men Witness
 read from a memoranda which he made in note book at the time the convtr sation " hich he alleged took place. MT Wadsworth-Mr O'Sullivan, you remember what MT. Murphy said here,
 that he never told anyone about hearing of the payment of S50,00O?' Yes sir, and he lied The note book was pasesd up to the
 committee and shown to counsel It was purported to contain the names of
 the persons among whom witness said MT. Murphy told him he had heard that the money had been divided. MT. O'Sullivan stated that he would rather not read the names, but would if the committee desired.
 MT. filling asked to have the names read.
 Mr mi thiply if fair tn make public the list of names. MT filling said that when once the flood
 gates of scandal were opened he didn't
 know where they should close. The
 committee finally decided to hear the
 names The note book contained initials
 and MT OSulliHan interpreted them as
 meaning the following among whom the
 $50, GOO had been divided: MT. Dennis, Mir. Alloway, MT Moran and MT. Betts. The reading of these names was greeted with laughter
 Witness then told when he had pub lished statements about the scandal con
 cernIng the Aetna Life suit settlement. He explained his visit to the Indemnity
 office by saying that the day after the introduction Of the resolution for an in- vestigation he went into the Indemnity
 company office to get copy of the in-
 surance commissioners report and could not borrow a copy which was in the
 office, but that MT Colgrove said that
 he would have his typewriter copy the
 portion desired. Witness said that he
 knew nothing about the $60 spoken of
 at the previous hearing. He said that
 MT. Colgrove never gave him five cents
 in his life and that he was not paid any
 of the $100 also referred to at the pre-
 vious hearing. Witness did not know
 where Mir. Colgrove was. He said that
 the first time he saw Mr. Colgrove was
 a week or two after the introduction in
 the house of the resolution for an in-
 vestigation. Witness later changed his
 statement and said that it was not after
 the introduction of the resolution, but
 some time before that he first met MT.
 Colgrove.
 Witness stated that there was other
 testimony given by witnesses who ap-
 peared at the same hearing at which
 MT. Murphy did. which was untrue. MT.
 Case and Judge Hungerford questioned
 MT. O'Sullivan as to the memorandum
 in his note book. Witness said that he
 had no conversation with MT. Dennis
 concerning what was told him by MT.
 Murphy. Witness said that previously
 he had talked with Mir. Dennis and that
 Mr. Dennis told him that he was now
 independent of MT. Troup and said:
 Sullivan, I have made more money since the first of April than Troup has
 made in ten years" Witness then said
 that MT, Dennis told him: "Sulli I
 made $50,00O out of that" having previ- ously asked witness if he had heard of
 the settlement of the Aetna suit. Wit
 ness said that this conversation took place about 12 o'clock one night on the