Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-02-15
REFUSED A BRIBE
Offer Of 100000 Made to Supreme
Court Justice to Protect Senator
Clark's Attorney.
A DOCTOR WAS The AGENT
The Judge Gould Have the Money If he
Would Throw Case Out Of Court Or
Resign and Go On Trip to
Europe.

sumed the inquiry into the election of
Senator Clark of Montana. Edward B.
Coyne, judge of the county court of Liv-
ingston county. New York, testified that
Mark Hewett, a witness for the prose-
cution in this case, had spoken to him
| last October of the Welcome disbar-
ment case, and in response to an in
quiry said Welcome did NOT stand a
ghost of chance" that it did not
make any difference whether Welcome
was guilty of the offenSe charged, as
Daily owned the court, and the case was
being conducted with view to getting
money for THE Clark case that was to
come before the United States senate.
The next witness was Justice Hunt,
of tine Montana supreme court, whose
sion. He detailed four conve1sa tions
With his family physician, DIR. William
Tracey, at Helena, in two of which he
believed the doctor attempted to lay
before him proposition to bribe him
in the Wellcome disbarment Case, which
was at that time before the court, of
which the witness was a member. Au-
gust 5 the doctor said to him: There Is
a party here who has got 100000, who
wants to put 1t up If THAT case can be
thrown out of court"
Hunt said he replied to Tracey that
mot all the money in United Verde and
Anaconda mines, together with every
dollar Daily and Clark are both worth,
and that There Is in the banks, would
induce me Ito sacrifice my conscience.
The Welcome case must go forward
just as any other case would"
Justice Hunt said after this that Ira
cey had appealed Ito him to get off the
bench on account of his healtIh, and
said that If he would accept the propo-
sition he could go abroad to visit the
Paris exposition and have nothing to
worry about, amid thus indefinitely pro
long his life. Hunt said he replied that
he much appreciated what the doctor
said about getting off the bench, but he
could not see his way clear to accept the
proposition. November IA DR.. Tracey
asked him if MO change had come over
his mind. HUNT said he replied he sup
posed their last conversation ended the
matter, as he would not sweave from
his position ITO save my own life or the
lives Of my children"
February DIR. Tracey showed him
what was apparently a. copy Of "a tele
gram which infoHned him (the doctor)
that some one told the SENATE commit
tee at Washington that the justice
would testify before the committee
The doctor then said: you know new
er offered you a bribe, and was only
joking in our conversation concerning
the Welcome case"
Hunt said he replied that he wished
he could believe he was only joking, but
he could not put THAT construction on
the proposition. He did not, however,
believe Tracey meant to actually bride
him, but simply to lay "a proposition
before him. In answer to questions
from members of the committee, JUS
tice Hunt said he first related the fact
Of the propositions being made to him
on the night of August s. when Asso
ciate Justice Piggott had come to his
house and related that he had been ap-
preached the same day.
At the close Of the direct examination
Mr.. Faulkner, on behalf of Senator
Clark, made formal motion to strike
the testimony Of Justice Hunt out Of
the record because IT faaleh to connect
the name of Clark with the proceedings,
and was entirely collateral. The mo-
ton was overruled, and the cross-ex-
animation proceeded. Justice Hunt said
that before DIR. Tracey made the propo-
sition he considered him a man of pre-
eminently good character He did not
believe THE doctor stopped ITO think of
the enormlty OF the proposition. Asked
| why he did NOT bring the matter to the
attention of the public prosecutor,
Judge Hunt replied that he was SO hu-
Initiated he did not care to disclose 1t.
One question brought out the fact that
Justice Hunt is Republican, ais is also
Justice Brantley, who has been sum-
moned TO appear before the committee.
The committee adjourned until 73o
p. m.
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