The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-12-01
WATER CONSPIRACY DEALS
CONFESSION IN NOTORIOUS
GRAND RAPIDS SCANDAL.
Ex-Uity Attorney saisbury Implicatss
Many Prominent Men and Causes
Great tsensation--aien interested Also
Had Deal. In chicago, milwaukee and
Omaha.

Grand RAPIDS, Mich, Nov. 30.-The
confession of ex-City Attorney Liant K.
Salisbury, in regard to the notorious
water scandal in this city. was told
! o-day for the first time in court at the
preliminary examination Of State Sem
ator David Burns, and it has created
a tremendous sensation on account of
/ the number OF prominent persons 1t
/ duplicates, in addition to the seventeen
officials and former officials who were
arrested on bribery charges ten days
ago.
The persons implicated by Salisbury
during his testimony against State
Y Senator Burns and the amounts he al
legged they received, are as follows:
/ George r. Perry, ex-mayor, s13,725;. J.
Clark Soroat, manager Grand Rapids
Democrat. $3.333; r. A. Cameron, New
York. $500: State Senator David E.
Burns, 5000; Alderman McCool. $500; AL
derman Ellen. $3.50: Aldermen DePag-
ter. $3.50: Alderman Muir, $500: Alder
man Kinney. $3.50; Alderman Donovan,
$500: Alderman Phillips. $1,000: Alder
man Johnson, $3.50 or $4Oo: Alderman
/ Stonehouse, $3.50; Alderman Losier, $500,
Alderman Shriver, $3.50; Alderman Mol,
$3.50; Alderman Ghysels, $3.50; Alderman
Hodges, $500: Alderman Slocum. $500;
Cory P. Bissell. $500. Russell Thomson,
reporter on Evening Press. $500; Isaac
Lamoreux, ex-city clerk, $1,000; State
Rep sentative Van Zoeren $3.50; State
Representative Vandrcock, $50; f.. D.
Conger, manager Grand Rapids Herald,
$4,000; Thomas r. McCarry, a promi-
nent attorney, now in Florida, $780, c.
Is. Burch, manager Of the Evening
Press, 5000.
He also implicated in water deals
Dudley E. Waters, ex-president of the
hoard OF public works: DIR. WillSe de
Vries. ex-city physician; George Ellis. a
local broker; Samuel M. Lemon, collec-
tor Of internal revenue, and William H.
Anderson. president Of the Fourth Ma
tional bank.
Six separate water conspiracy deals
were on in Grand Rapids at one time,
according to Salsbury's sworn testimo-
ny, each gigantic in its size and all call
ing for the use of Doodle fund. In ad-
dition to the Henry Taylor $t00, 900 Lake
Michigan water deal, he testified that
there were five other strings out, from
each one of which thousands of dollars
twere hanging. Every one Of these six
sets Of men were put up or offered to
advance corruption fund were dupes,
so Salisbury says, Of himself, Perry,
McGarry and Sproat.
Patrick Flynn of New York he names
as one OF those at the head of one scheme.
The men interested in the Hydraulic
Water company are names as the back
ers Of another deal in Chicago. Then
there was Milwaukee deal. in which
he said Contractor Loss of Chicago was
interested: the Omaha deal in which
the Barton millionaires are said to have
put up $4,000, and the Gillespie deal. On
top of all these, Salisbury duplicates
Revenue Collector Samuel M. Lemon
with a deal, charging Lemon with COM
inc to him with proposition to buy
the council after having bought the
mayor for $4,000. D. H. Crow, of Grand
Rapids, and Moses Crow Of New York,
are also mentioned in connection with
one of the deals. 1850