Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-01
identified the Paris letter as being in Mr.

identified the Paris letter as being in Mr..
| Lilly's handwriting.
| Have you Commissioners sent for Mr..
| L1llys affidavits in regard to these black
| mail charges?" queried Mrs. Robinson.
Commissioner Macfarland replied that
| they had not, and asked if Mrs Robinson
had anything further to say. She then in
| PRODUCED as evidence one of Mr.. Robinson s
| check books.
I'VE want it understood that the reason
| Mr.. Lilly's affidavit was not asked for was
| because we wanted Mr.. Lilly here wit
ness" said Mr. Mcfarland.
This brought the hearing to a close at 3
| o'clock. Judge Cole said he would submit
a brief in one week, and decision in the
case will be announced by the Commits
/ sioners when that shall have been consid-
cred.
Discrepancies Noted.
From the testimony adduced at the vari-
Gus sessions of the hearing with reference
to Mr.. Robinson's charge of blackmail
against Superintendent Stutler number of
discrepancies have been noted.
In his original affidavit with reference to
the charges of blackmail against Stutler,
Mr.. Robinson stated that in June, 1899, Mr..
Lilly, his partner in the street sweeping
contract loaned to Stutler 500 on the lat
ters note Later, he said, the note was
assigned to the firm of Lilly & Robinson.
About six months after the alleged loan of
s4OO, Robinson testified, he loaned Stutler
$50 and took the latters note for the
amount. This note, he said, he later as
signed to the firm: Robinson also declared
that Mr.. Stutler about six months after the
alleged second loan requested him for a
loan of 500. This request, he stated he
eyaded, and did not loan Stutler the 500.
said, was $3.50.
Robinson also said in his affidavit that he
surrendered the two notes, one for $500
and the other for s130, to Stutler without
any consideration.
When on the stand Robinson changed the
statement he had made in his affidavit to
the effect that he knocked off, 500 from
the two notes. aggregating $3.50, and that
Stutler gave him new note for $3.50. This
note, he said, he returned to Stutler without
receiving any compensation.
After Consulting Books.
Later, when Mr.. Robinson's books ar
rived and he produced them in evidence, he
stated that he found he had net refused
Suffers alleged third request for loan,
but that he had loaned him the 500 mem
TONED, making the total amount of Slut
ler's alleged Indebtedness to Lilly & Robin
son $500. He also changed the amount of
the reduction from 500 to $780, which left
$3.50, and the note for this latter amount, he
said, he surrendered to Stutler.
On the stand yesterday afternoon Mrs
Robinson. who had been called to corrob-
crate her husbands testimony about the
notes. stated that she saw one note for s4O0
and one for $50. She declared she never
saw any note for $3.50. Before Robinson
surrendered the notes to Stutler, she said,
Mr.. Robinson showed the two notes to her,
and either she her husband suggested
that the notes" ought to be photographed
From Mrs. Robinson's testimony 1t seems
there were two notes, for 800 and $3.50, re-
spectively, that Robinson surrendered, in
stead of one note for $3.50.
The only entry on Robnson's books that
cd until, he al
legged financial transactions between the
firm and Stutler was entry wherein Mr.
Lilly is credited with note for $500. An
explanatory note on this entry states:
Note at sixty days on w. s." There was
no reference on any of the checks or check
stubs referring to Stutler, and there were
no other entries on the books which on
their face might be connected with the al
legged transactions between Lilly e. Robin
son and Stutler.
Denial by Mr.. Stutler.
Mr.. stutler all through his testimony alb
solutely denied that he had ever borrowed
any money from either Lilly or Robinson.
He stated that Robinson went in with him
on stock deal and gave him $500 to invest
for him. but that is the only transaction he
ever had with Robinson, according to Slut
ler's testimony. Robinson fatty denied that
he ever had stock deal with Stutler or
anybody else.
Mr.. Stutler, while on the stand, testified
that on three different occasions Robinson
endeavored to bride him. He said he did
not report that matter to the Commission
ers at the time. Robinson denied this
charge.
Practically all of the testimony produced
against Stutler in the trial on the black
mail charges has been hearsay and circufn-
stantial in character, apd 1t Is declared by
legal authorities that scarcely any Of the
evidence presented before the Commission
ers would be admitted at all in a court at
law.
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