The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-05-31

! up over the telephone. His telephone num-
bers' We're on his card.
l would meet HIM next day at the German
Savings Institution. When we met ] told
him l would have the money to deposit in a
vault where neither Of us could get ii until
the bill was passed. He said all right. The
neXl morning l met him at the German
Savings Institution.
Il got the money from Hospes and we
started TO the Mississippi Valley Trust
l Company. on the way Murrell said he
4, would rather go to the Lincoln Trust Com
pany. ! said that it made no difference to
me; and We wen; oyer there.
we called for a box and We wrote our
names in a book. We counted the money
and placed it in a box. They gave us two
keys. Murrell kept one key and l kept the
other.
"on April 4. 1901. I wrote him a letter to
| come to my office. The next day l received
a telephone message from him to call
fs hiT a 9f msn sitting Msnf in t, there his to 0 sesr s ona
conversation. He asked me what l would
do: Il would give un the key. ! told him 1
%Dul Beyond Ton; that sald | | would gSH'd p nSy n nii GMpenses'
II did not see him again until the middle
OF last January. l think it was the 18th. He
him to put ut it t@ in Writing. Two sd days af fteq
that he met me. on a Saturday. In a res
taurant on Third street: Again he asked me
He told me the Grand Jury would take hold
of the matter. l told him / could not help
\ AS ANiiS was inc ioiuS III
as it has been at all trials.
TELLS OF $685. 900
USED TO PASS BILL.
AT the same trial Charles H. Turner made
a direct statement as to. the amount de-
manded of him. The part for the Council
was not spoken of in detail as Lehman
was a member of the House of Delegates.
and hence only the story of the House
Doodle fund was pertinent.
CT asked Philip Stock to look after the
Suburban franchise bill" said Turner. He
would take $685. O to get it through the
House of Delegates and City. Council. The
duced in the Council. There were two
ioansIone of $4,000 and the other OF
Did you know what the s75. 600 was to be
used for?' asked Circuit Attorney Folk.
through the House of Delegates." answered
Turner without hesitation.
Turner then recited that he was never
authorized as president of the road to pay
for the bill. and declared that ne never
talked with the other directors about the
matter. He Said that all the directors and
stockholders of the road would have been
greatly benefited had the bill become effec-
that he was going to have the bill passed.
He said hat SO far as he knew Messrs.
who were indicted. were not aware for
what purpose the money, was to be used.
He told them to go to the bank and sign
that Stock never told him the s135. 600 was
"bribe' money. but that it consisted of
necessary expenses to get the bill
through.
How, was the money charged on the
books?' he was asked.
1T was never charged on the books. The
notes were, against me and l paid them
quarterly, charging the interest to the COM
pany. The interest was charged to the ex-
pense of the Pine street ordnance and no.
bOdy ever asked me questions about II"
CENTRAL TRACTION BILL
WAS VERY EXPENSIVE.
Frederick G. Uthoff was the Councilman
who forced the price of his kind to such
heights. who was the "high-priced'' man
of the whole aggregation. but didn't get his
money. He had visions of wealth untold.
but it did not realize. The tale of his i'll
| luck and ill-doing was related at length
upon the stand at the trial of Robert NJ.
Snyder.
SNYDER said I ought to help him." SAID
uthoff. with that bill Central Traction).
He said he would send a package contain,
by John B. ~Brinkmeyer and Paulus Cast.
! Louis F. Dieckmann brought the package
ana Later aeer / i told I'D p BIZ kG1ai who was Speak
er of the House. to tell Snyder to take his
money back. The package contained a lot
of new s1.@o bills. Snyder got the money
"At the Planters Hotel 1 met Snyder. I
cannot remember the words that were
spoken. but the substance was that the gas
bill was to be tackled onto the Traction bill
as a rider and the amount for passage to
be 800, 000.
Snyder agreed to meet me at my house
| next day to pay $50. 90 He did not come.
Dieckmann came about II o'clock and said
SNYDER had some trouble.
Il went to Snyder's room at the Southern.
He showed a roll, saying. Here is $4,000.
Dieckmann has $4,000 more and Charlie
Carroll got SIS. 900 from me-
1.-The bill came up that evening. I voted
for it. l dill not see Snyder for some months
| and then / met him at McTague's. He adj
mitted then that he had not given me a
, cent. He said he was under the impression
that Meier had given me $4,000.
Later | went to New York and met Sny-
der at the Waldorf. I got $500 then and
&c. 90 a few months afterward when again
in New York.
Snyder YVES to have met him and paid
him his 800 eco. hut did not appear. Uthof
was looking for him..
When went to Snyder's ROOM" said
| Cthoff, "he said: You left the house too
| early. I missed you ny only two minutes
! and 1 had my o%vercoat all bundled up
| chock full of money I told hint was
| sorry. Mr.. Snyder put his hand In his
pocket and pulled out a roll, saying: Here
Is S35. Co.,
Uthof further told Of the arrangement by.
which the then existing street railway com
pan!es paid a salary to six members of the