The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-23
FyANCIERS
 MOST LIBERAL Loaned Many Thousands
 to Colonel Mann. SOME ARE PAID IN STOCK Took Shares Worth $IO Each on
 Basis of $I,OOO Each.
Some Remarkable Testimony Brought Out in Trial of Norman Hapeeod On Charges of Criminal
 Libel in New York.

New York. Jan. 22.--Col. ". D. Mann, editor of Town Topics, testihed at the Hapgood criminal libel trial today that he had borroed nearly s200,000 from J. F. Morgan. James R. Keene, W. D. Vanderbilt. William c. Whitney and other prominent fnanciers. Many of these loans never were repaid so far as Colonel Mann could recall, and oth- CTS were repaid in stock of Town Top ics Company at $1,000 a share. The largest single loan was obtained from James R. Keene, who loaned the Town Topics editor $g0,0O0. From W K. Vanderbilt, Colonel Mann obtained $35,- 900; from ". c. Whitney, sto,0O0; from Collis P. Huntington. $5.000; John W. Gates, $20s000; Charles M. Schwab. $10,- 1 900: Thomas F. Ryan, $1,000. When Colonel Mann testified that many of these loans were paid in Town Topics stock at $1,o00 share. James w. Osborne, counsel for Mr. Hapgood. asked If the par value of the stock is not $10 per share. Colonel Mann re- piled that it was.
 A contract was produced showing that $2s6o0 was paid by William J. White. of Cleveland, for a suhscrip- tion to Pads and Fancies, the book which was issued under Coloued Mann's direction.
 Mr. Whites name was not in this book and Colonel Mann was asked why MT. White paid the money. He replied that he did not know and learned that Mir. White was a prominent Cleveland man, he had approved his subscription. The price of a subscription to Pads aud Fancies was $1.500 and Colonel Mann was asked what Mir. White paid the extra $1.0o0 for.
 Wanted Four Pages.
 He wanted four pages instead of two.'' Colonel Mann replied.
 Colonel Mann's dealings with United States Senator William A. Clark of Montana were taken up by MT. Os- borne. The witness said he never re- ceived any money from the Senator.
 'sThere was a series of articles about member of his family" Mr Osborne asked.
 T am not aware of it." said Colonel Mann
 That series was stopped and you be- came friends with Senator Clark?"
 Yes
 How did you become friendly with him without money?"
 There was some correspondence with him." said the witness. The Senator came to my office and talked for an hour or two. He said he was building a railroad. He said he was going to issue bonds only when the road was complete and that could have some of the bonds then. From that day to this have not seen Senator Clark"
 Asked whether there was key to anonymous paragraphs in Town Top ies, Colonel Mann said there was none. His attention was then called to two paragraphs in Town Topics, one of which is anonymous, but apparently about the same man as the other and he was asked what connection there was between them. After the witness had replied that he saw no connection, Mir. Osborne said >
 ''Then it Is the inherent malice of inanimate objects"
 That Is 1t, a matter of the galleys," was the reply.
 Did you ever borrow from Charles Schwab? asked Mir. Osborne.
 Money from Schvvab.
 T applied for loan of $10.000 from him on stock of the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company. and he agreed to take the stock and give me the $10,000."
 Did you get it?'
 r some one brought the money in she office and it was left there. but I did not handle it."
 "And you don't know who 1t was that brought the money?"
 No"
 Taking up the loan from w. K. Van derbilt which Colonel Mann said might have been s25 ,0O0, Mir. Osborne asked;
 'Is 1t not agreed that his name sis never to be printed in Town Topics?"
 No"
 Did you not tell Mir. Wayne, your managing editor, that if he said any thing about w. K. Vanderbilt in your paper, or even mentioned his name at all it would be taking money out of your mouth?"
 T did not answered Colonel Mann.
 Relations With Equitable.
 The relations of the Equitable Life Insurance Company to Town Topics wal then taken up, Colonel Mann testifying that the paper printed advertisements In several languages for the Equitable.
 Did you not have tho story of the row Tn the Equitable long before it became public; and did you not sup press that story because of your friend ly relations with Mir. Hyde, or for other reasons?" he was asked.
 No"
 Did not woman bring you the story of the quarrel in the Equitable?"
 Colonel Mann answered: "I now have a faint recollection that a woman who said she was a stenographer or clerk in the Equitable offices came to my office and she said she knew the facts about fight inside the com pany, but I paid no attention to her. A day or two later the whole thing about the Equitable quarrel came out In the papers"
 From R. r. Flower the witneks said he borrowed $2,0O0 or so.
 MT. Osborne read a clipping from Town Topics about member of the family of J. R Baker, of Baltimore, which said had been sent to MT. Baker from the Town Topics office.
 Colonel Mann denied that 1t was a practice to send such clippings to those whom the Town Topics company wish ed to subscribe for the paper. He said he did not know Mir Baker or any member of his family. but that Mir. Baker had called at his office to com plain about the manner in which the paper had treated his family.
 RIO.OOO from Mrs. Huntington.
 Colonel Mann said that there were perhaps three or four persons who paid Sl 500 a piece for the books called Fads and Fancies, whose names did not appear therein. They did not care