The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-30
New York, May 4th. 1908.
No 1855 ~
THE GARFIELD NATIONAL BANK.
Pay TO the order OF Samuel PARK eleven thous'
and dollars
Sill OO SAMUEL PARK.

THE GARFIELD NATIONAL BANK. ::
and nc, dollars Haa s,rrl PARK
This money was deposited on Jan. 2, ;
ssid Mr.. Snow to Sun reporter. Park.
WHO signed and Endorsed the check, Is
Parks Mr.. Rand asked of Parks on the
stand
On Jan. 10 did you deposit sil 900 in
the Garfield National Bank" This was
excluded.
Did you ever have any other means
than your salary as walking delegate'
asked Mr. Rand.
"rll say no" said Parks. He also said
that he lad never banked the unions money
In his own name.
"Do you know the president Of the Fuller
Construction Company, Judge samuel
MCCONNELL"
Yes. said Parks, locking at Mr.. McCon
nell, who WIS in court by invitation o1 VT.
Rand.
Since YOU Naye been walking delegate
has lie paid you different sums for services
o. n walking delerate?
Judge Newnurger sustained al objection
by Parhs's ia"yer. Later reporter asked
Mr.. RAND ii he had any evidence that Mr..
NCCcuneli or the Fuller Construction Com
on tie 'mpauy's competitors.
Il Lave not" replied Mr.. Rand and l
never have had A great many people
have come to me ard told ME that this has
been done. have sifed every story they
have told me, but not one Of them has made
good. few weeks ago, at my request,
Judge Mcconnell came to see me, and we
discussed the entire situation with great
frankness. He told me these stories were
without foundation, He said he did know
". u b i'm.
had al various times in the last year en-
ployed Parks for pay TO settle strikes that
affected the business of the Fuller company.
He said that he could not recall the number
OF such payments, but there were several,
and they were something like $500 each
time I told him that I was glad to know
that and would Ike 10 confront Parks with
such question to see II he would deny it.
Mr. Mcconnell said that he didn't think
that Parks would dare to deny 1t. told
him that the next time / got Parks on the
stand would give him an opportunity to
tell what services he had rendered for these
payments, and that wished he would tell
Parks So Judge Mcdonnell has acted with
entire frankness with this office.
Mr.. Rand tried to uphol this promise
yesterday and went at PARKS with ques-
tion put in this form;
Did Judge Mcconnell ever pay. you
any sum-" The question was excluded.
On the trial for extorting money from
Josephus Plenty. Parkss defence wos a
denial that he got the money. He also
denied then ever having seen Mr., Frazee
or Mr. Schmitt Of the tiffany Company
both of whom he now remembers, together
with all his conversation with them,
Parks's manner was not defiant yester-
day After he had admitted he had got the
$500 as charged, his lawyer asked him:
O. Did you say Tiffany and jerome could
90 TO hell? A. don't believe put it as raw
q. Did you tell Mr., Schmidt to go back and
bring Jeromel A Yes, | wasn't making a
know i was fine imposed by the association
q Did Mr.. Schrnitt want to know why the
s ssfe il E pad y 1R hs Tas
matter for the association to settle told
him to do as he pleased about it,
O.. Did you talk with Frrazee about having
trouble on the Ansonlai A. Yes, we had had
some trouble on the Ansonia.
"a. Did you call the strike in this case;
g; Did You know the causs' A, heard
did you say? A. ! told them that Tiffany 4
Co. had been on record as working non union
q. Did you tell Mr. Fraz.e that you were
not in it for your health' A, ! think ! said
s9mething about IKE a that hati,, ! think ! said
that was va not IN go1d health and had been
Q. Did you say. Firms have tried t.. fight
me and have had to settler" didn't say
concerns. and they have had TO settle with
@ What did you mean by imitation fee "
in connection with the $500 the Tiranys were
fined? A. | meant that il would place them
on record as a union firm that could do bust
ness with large contractors and could say that
theirs was a union Arm,
O. Did Mr, Schmtt say that this was
large amount to pay WITHOUT any guara9te,%,
done business with me, | mentioned the
names Of several firms.
Q Did you say this money viii 20 10 me
~ TO sam Parks and then TO the union /
also said that was sick and tired Of labor
union m9yements. on account Of my III health.
nj ght be paid II 10 any one Sc? 4 Yes he
did. told him m, il must be paid to me as
unfon - sn'p 4 Not cxaGty I sud that
when they could not get union men they
could employ non-unlon men, except on big
"a Was anything said about paying the
ensg VIII GheSkf 4 Ses ana ! sag l Ia We
" 900 we had got from the Hecla Iron Works
and wanted cash,
70 Mr. Rand Parks said that he did not
knov when Benjamin Thackara. the super
inteudent Of the Tiffany Job on which the
strike was called, came 10 ask him bow
u could be settled that The strike had been
called He admiitrd that he probably
told 1hackara TO tell Tiffany 10 20 To- hril
Parks lawyer interrupted so frequently
a. THE point that Judge Newburger said
To him:
IT you wan, 10 testify you may take
the witness stand "
Parks said that when August I.llrbect
foreman % the union men nj work on the
IlhauY Jpb came w him ~ M1,snnrrchOT
Hal 10 ahk abou the strike be wa talking
Va lNo other men, and told liIebtck a.
g"i away from him l.ueb.ck testified
carrier ~ ths day hat Parks told hlm "a
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