Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-01-27
HOW MANN GOT CASH
Town Topics Had an Immune
List, Says Executor.
SOME PROMINENT MEN NOT ATTACKED
Charles stokes Wayne Testified That
lie Prepared List of Persons Not
10 lie "Roasfed" In society
Publication.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Colonel VIII
liam dalton Mann was questioned by
District Attorney Jerome in the crimi-
nal branch of the supreme court about
how he could borrow money from J. T.
Morgan and other millionaires on his
personal note without giving security.
II cannot 90 to Mr.. Morgan" Mr.. Je-
rome said in somewhat injured tone
of voice, "and borrow money on the
strength Of my personal note. Are you
on terms of friendship with Mr.. Nor
GAM"
II have met Mr.. Morgan number OF
times" the colonel answered, land
knew his father"
WAS there any other reason why
Mr. Morgan should let you have $500
on your personal noteY
II suppose it was friendship and re-
spect for my personality"
There was litter in the courtroom
at this, but it was soon repressed, and
Mr.. Jerome asked why the colonel had
not gone to some other banker.
II would like to know" he explained,
NhNAnfi vi iOi lhtlC W as at ttit iiillt
any scandal current about Mr. Morgan
and if this 81, 800 was advanced in or
der that this scandal be not published"
There was not" the colonel replied.
did you know Mr.. Ryan well enough
to 90 to him and ask him a similar fa-
vorf7
II was presented to Mr.. Ryan by Mr..
Whitney. Mr.. Whitney was very nice
to me to my face in the presence of
Mr. Ryan and said. Colonel Mann is
gentleman and an honest man, and /
want you to be nice to him. If he
wants any money you can let him have
it, He's perfectly good A little later
needed money, and | went to Mr..
Ryan and asked him to loan me $16.-
900. | offered him Town Topics stock
as security, but he said: I don't want
those shares. They're all right, but
give me your note That will do me-
Charles Stokes Wayne, former editor
of Town Topics, made public at the
Hapgood trial the immune list of the
publication.
He testified that he had prepared, I'M
der instructions from Colonel Mann,
list Of persons immune from attack in
the paper. This list was as follows:
Russell A. Alger, James II. Hyde,
Perry Belmont, James Il. Keene, VIII
liam X. Vanderbilt, George Gould, j.
Pierpont Morgan, Chauncey NJ. Depew,
A. j. Cassatt, Melville Stone, August
Belmont, Senator Clark, George III.
Daniels, Stuyvesant Fish, Henry Fla
gler, Abe Hummel, A. Clarence Doane,
Thomas W. Lawson, John i. Madden,
Reginald Ward, Clayton Webb and
Charles T. Yerkes.
The witness said that Harry Lehr at
first was not an immune: then ne be-
came one and later dropped out of the
list again. Reginald Ward was not an
immune when the first para graph about
him, which was introduced In evidence,
appeared.
Commodore Gerry was asked if he re
membered Il visit by Wooster in 1901.
"All that | remember about the mat
ter is that i'm 1901, during the summer
when | was at my residence in New
port, Il. L., one of my servants came to
me and said that Il man with letter
from Justice Deuel. wished to see me
personally. | had known Justice Deuel.
for some years. The man came in and
stated what the forthcoming book
Pads and Fancies' was, and | de
clmed TO have anything to do with any
scheme with which Town Topics was
concerned and the interview ended"