The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-16
JUICE suPPoRr TULLY.
Testify I'm Court Clerks Favor at Jury Fixing
HnqulFy~-JulIaR Hearing.

inquiry Julian Hearing.
At the investigation yesterday before
Chief Clerk Tom Smith OF the City Court
into the charges against Edward G. Tully,
one Of the court clerks, In connection with
the jury fixing scandal, Chief Justice
o'Dwyer and Justices Mccarthy, Conlan
and Green either testified or made state
ments tending to exonerate Tully.
Justice O'Dwyer testified that II was
through Tully's efforts that the matter OF
W. a. Tillinghast, who confessed TO i'm
~personatinR jurors and was sentenced to
the penitentiary, was first brought to the
courts attention. The charges against
Tully set forth that he called Tillinghast
as a juror on elk occasions when the man
was not on the panel list. All the cases
we're Metropolitan damage suits, and In
four the verdict was for the company, In
one a disagreement ard in the other q
verdict for SOL.
Justice O'Dwyer said that he had never
heard any complaint against FULLY and
believed him to be a thoroughly efficient
clerk. Justice MCCARTHY testified to the
same thing, and then Justices Green and
Conlan made statements showing their
confidence in the accused clerk.
After the judicial testimony was all In
the hearing was adjourned till Saturday.
The charge Of furnishing libellous in
formation to a Newspaper made against
Louis A, Julian Of 70 West Eighty-ifth
street, formerly an investigator for the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company,
by James L. Queokenbush, general counsel
yesterday before Magistrate Wahle in the
private examination room OF the Tomos
police court. 1t was adjourned to April 2
at the West Side police court after the
testimony Of two witnesses had been taken.
Robert l.. Turk, a lawyer of 35 Nassau
street, tried to obtain a postponement
OF the case on the ground that as he had
been called as a witness be might be forced
to show his hand in a damage suit brought
by a client, Mrs, Patrick Keenan, of Saul
Is set for trial next week in the Supreme
Court. Magistrate Wahle refused to grant
the postponement.
DR.. Wolfert Nelson, who lives in the
Aston House, was the first witness. He
said he had been visited at his office by a
that he was in tina legal department OF the
Metropolitan. The witness said that Purdy
had asked him what he knew about the
case of Mrs. Keenan,, In which he was TO be
a witness. He declined to give Purdy
any information, he said, and showed the
man the door.
why did you show him to the door2'
asked Addison Allen Of counsel for the
defence.
Because he made improper proposals;
DR.. Nelson seemed unable to remember
what the conversation was. After his
interview with Purdy, he said, he fastened
to Turks Office and told him of his ex-
p%erience.
On cross examination the witness de-
clared that he had told Turk that Purdy
had made improper proposals. Later he
declared that Purdy had asked him the
nature of the testimony he proposed to
give in behalf of Mrs. Keenan,
why did o consider such a question
improper" asked Mr.. Allen.
Because the case was before the courts,
replied the witness with much show OF
indignation.
Mr.. Turk was next called to the witness
etand. He said that for several years he
had acted as counsel for the doctor.
The doctor told me-, said the witness,
that one of the company's lawyers had
got down on his knees before him, DR.. Nell
son, begging that the doctor would save
him from prison. He told me that he knew
the lawyer was connected with the Metro
politan because he had told him 50.
asked for the lawyers name. but the doctor
refused to give it, as he said he had known
this man for a long time
Mr.. Turk finished his testimony by de-
claring that, after hearing DR.. Nelson, he
had given the story to a reporter. which
forms the basis of the charge against Julian.
He said that he and not Julian was respon-
sible for its publication. Mr.. Turk, how
ever, was positive that he did not Use the
word -bribe" anywhere in the information
he gave.
The reporter who got the information is to
testify at the next hearing.