The San Francisco call., 1909-05-27


talk with me and didn't think that
Burns merited any consideration at all.
Then he asked me how much 1 re-
ceiKed. and 1 told him $3.50 month.
He said: Don't you think $3.50 a
month placed to your credit in some
Oakland bank would help to buy things
for your wife that you can't AFFORD
now? / said l thought the proposition
he referred to would be dangerous, as
I had been sworn in as a city employe,
but he assured me there was no danger.
said l would see what l could do
about 1T. and asked him if he wanted
stuff from Burns Office about Ruef.
He said that they didn't care about
helping Ruef any, because he was
likely 10 squeal again, and that If he
did he might tell more than he had
done before"
Two or three days after this meet
ing in San Leandro, Lawlor said that
Brown telephoned him to come to the
St Francis hotel. and that he was then
told that arrangements had been made
for $3.50 to be deposited to his credit
each month at an Oakland bank and
that he would be expected to make his
reports to Brown.
Il told Brown that it would be
dangerous for me to try TO see him, y
Sa10 1dWlOTs ana dLteT II over
he said for me TO deliver my reports to
a woman named Wade in the office OF
the Peck-Judah agency in Market
street. I was told to put the reports
in an envelope addressed TO him and to
place this envelope inside one addressed
to the woman referred to and to de-
liver them personally"
The next instruction which the wit
ness received, he said. was TO see If he
could get a list Of jurors from Burns
office. The jurors wanted by Brown
were those on the panel which was
then being summoned, and Brown as
had furnished the list to the deputy
sheriffs from which the jury venire was
TO be summoned. Lawlor said that he
knew of the existence of no such list.
Receives First Money
Shortly after this meeting, Lawlor
said that he again met Brown at the
St Francis hotel by appointment and
received his first money, which
amounted to $95.
Brown asked me if 1 didn't want a
drink of water" said the witness. II
said that 1 didn't care for one, but he
insisted that ] go into the bathroom and
take a drink. Then it occurred to me
how Benson had paid bribes to land
agents in Washington by leaving the
money on the washstand, and so 1
looked around. found a little pile of
gold in the soap dish. 1t amounted to
$35. ! put it in my pocket and went
back to Brown. He asked me how l
liked the water and I said Fine"
Lawlor declared that he at once took
the money to the Office of District At
torney Langdon, and that after he had
put a mark on it and made a written
statement concerning the manner in
which he had received it, the money and
report were placed in an envelope and
sealed. Heney produced the envelope
in question and introduced It and its
contents in evidence over the objections
OF the defense.
Three other payments of $40, $50 and
$3.50, respectively, were told of by Law
lor, and the marked money was intro
duced in evidence in each case.
The last meeting was about three
weeks after the meetings at the St
Francis declared Lawlor. II me,
Brown at San Leandro by appointment
and 1 had to do most OF the talking
on that occasion. He appeared very
Indifferent. He spoke of Ruef's chauf-
feur. Latham, and asked me If I had
heard anything about him. Then he
told me that things were getting quiet
and that he would have to lay me of
but said he would pay me frst He
went out of the room and returned with
stack of gold which he laid on the
table. He said: There's $3.50 and
still owe you SIS, which will pa,
you later"