The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-03-21

0ee; to Boxton, slq,0oa; to sa.er-
Wilson's, each. $4,000
Home telephone franchise: To ST.
lpervisors, each, $1,000.
Gas company franchise: 10 super
visors. each, $3.50.
Fight trust 10000; to superv,s-
ors, each. $500.
The supervisors freely admitted
they had received the money. Gala
CHER, acting mayor, is alleged to have
been the disbursing agent for Ruef.
As a result of these confessions the
supervisors will retire from Office and
Schmitz will appoint a new board,
with the approval of influential citi-
zens. The fate of the mayor himself
is in doubt Tt is said by some he
will be forced to resign before his
trial on the graft charges.
Confesses Whole Story.
This is the story Thomas ]. Loner-
gan. one of the confessed boodlers of
the board of supervisors, told the
grand jury:
81 met a man who l thought was
friend of mine at a skating rink re-
Gently and there accepted $500 In
bills from him for my vote in favor
of the skating rink ordinance.
"'Here Lonergan,' he said, IS
$780, and dealing out the bills one
at time, added, and here is 5000:
here is $500, here is $500 and this
makes $500 l took the money and
departed.
Gallagher and Wilson heard of
the transaction and came to me and
told me that | was getting too care
less and should be more careful. 1
became frightened and went to Ruef,
who said that he would see the man.
Later | heard from him over the
telephone. He said he had seen the
man and that It was all right, but
to be more careful in the future.
81 said to Ruef, IF you had treated
us right this never would have hap
pened' l referred to Ruef's taking
the Hons share Of every bride.
Last Sunday afternoon, in re-
Spouse to a message from the same
man, l went to his home, and he
there made me the same payment
that he had in the rink. He counted
out the bills in the same manner as
before and said that the money was
for my vote on proposed ordinance
extending the limits in which oil
could be burned. | became suspic-
ious and jumped for the folding doors
at the end of the room, exclaiming.
Who is behind these doors?'
Trapped by Detectives.
"The doors flew open and in walk
ed Detective Burns with two detec-
tives, Reeves and Scales. we have
YOU Lonergan, said Burns. we can
send you across for this
81 yelled, Arrest that man. He is
trying to bride a supervisor
you did not say that when you
accepted the money from him al the
skating rink responded Burns.
Then Burns read the stenographic
report of what had taken place at the
rink. l tried to get away and had a
struggle with Burns, who placed me
under arrest and sent for Heney and
Langdon. The three sweated me for
five hours and l finally told them all
that | knew. My confession was
sworn 10 before Miss Conlon. a notary
public, or woman who was supposed
to be one. She is, think, the stem
ographer for the grand jury.
Il told them that had gotten
$500 from the fight trust. In all of
these transactions 1 got the money
from Gallagher.
81 got $4,000 from the Home Tele-
phone company, and accepted $4,000
from the Pacific States Telephone
company, thus double crossing the
latter concern.
Paid for Gas Vote.
For my vote when the board of
supervisors fixed the gas rate at IS
cents I received $3.50 from the san
Francisco Gas and Electric company
For my vote in the overhead troll
ley privileges given the United States
Railroads l got $4,000 at one time
and $4,000 at another. In all of
these transactions Gallagher acted as
the agent