The Washington times., 1904-12-31
lNTlMIDATED, SAYS
LAWYER FORIRVINE

PHILADELPHIA, Dec 31.-Intimi-
dation by powerful friends OF Bishop
Talbot is the charge made by Herbert
Noble, senior counsel for the presenters.
in explanation of the reputation by
some of the Huntingdon presenters Of
their signatures to the charges against
the bishop.
Mr.. Noble arrived in Philadelphia from
New York yesterday afternoon and i'm
mediately went into conference in a.
private room at the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel with DR.. Ingram N w Irvine. the
unfrocked priest, and J. Frederick Jenk-
inson and Agnew Mcbride, presenters
and associate counsel
The conference was protracted until s
O'Clock, when it was adjourned for din
ner. Later this evening Mr.. Noble con-
ferred with other gentlemen interested
in the case.
Noble Charges Bulldozing.
When he came from the conference
| room Mr.. Noble, who assumed the duty
| of doing all the talking, said:
The signatures of the Huntingdon
presenters of Bishop Talbot TO the
original document were entirely regu-
lar. The charge that there was any
hugger-muggery in securing these sigma
lures is ali rot
These men signed the document
Knowing exactly what it contained. Be
sides their signatures to the present
rnent, NE have their signatures TO Z let
ter asking whether they should sign the
document once or twice
This came about because in the open
| ing paragraphs OF the preSentment their
names are stated in a column one under
the other They wrote asking whether
they should affiX their sigma lures at that
place, rs well as on the last sheet. which
contained the concluding paragraph of
the document and which embodied the
formal prayer TO the presiding bishop
for the appointment of a board of in
quiry.
Affixed Signatures.
''Fhey were informed that they need
affix their signatures onIs at the latter
point, and this they did. each man
knowing fully what ne was signing.
/ ''As far as the reputation by these
| gentlemen of their signatures is con
/ Serned. | wish TO say only one thing:
| ihey have been bulldozed into the
reputation of an act they knowingly
ana willingly performed
! The pressure was applied by parti-
/ sans of Bishop Talbot" Then eontInu-
! ing. ne said; We propose to probe this
All of tomorrow. and in he afternoon
shall make a formal statement giving
all the facts in connection with this
| sensational turn tie affair has taken.
| l viii have al OF the facts in hand
then, and they shall be, made known 70
| the world
When asked whether or not these re-
! pudiations of the Huntingdon sigma
lures viii vitiate the presentment, Mr..
/ Noble replied:
They win not affect the legality OF
the prescntment in the least There
/ need be no concern on that account
Awaiting Detectives Report.
| OF the conference this afternoon Mr..
Noble declined positively TO talk. 1t
was ascertained, however. that in ad-
dition TO exhausting all The knowledge
in the possession of the Philadelphia ard
New York presenters as TO the procuring
! Of The Huntingdon sigma lures. The con
ferees received teiegTa plic reports from
detectives who have been working in
+; Huntingdon on more sensational ends
of the case
! These detectives have been in Hunt
/ i1gdon for several days. and immedia te-
| y on the publication of the repudia tions
/ this morning. they were ordered off the
SenSa tional trails they have been fol-
/ lowing and set TO work on these repudia-
tions. Mr.. Mobiles statement WAS made
after he had received the first reports
! from these detectives His statement
tomorrow will follow the receipt OF more
! detailed reports from them
/ II Is known that friends of BishoI
Talbot sent man to Huntingdon feN