The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-12

Inc witness said that bray asked eN-
erybody to have a drink after the
clash in the hotel, and that Nugent re-
fused to drink with him.
Beers-What did Mr.. Nugent say to
Mr.. Bray just before he left the Broad?
Wright-He told him men of such &C.
tons are a detriment rather than a
help 10 the Democratic party.
Wright, when questioned as to wheth-
er he had told one or two persons in
the City Hall a short time afterward
that the whole incident was a joke, said
he had read some such thing in a Sun
day paper.
Beers-Why did you single out Alder
man Bray for this little game?
Wright didn't single him out.
Alderman Sinnott-Was the hundred
marked?
Wright didn't nave a hundred.
Sinnott-Oh, you testified that you
said you had it in your pocket.
Mr.. Tuite, who was called after the
dismissal of Alderman Wright, cor
roborated that part of the Wright testi-
mony dealing with the trip to the Hotel
Broad. He said he was at Green and
Broad street when Bray left the City
Hall and started toward the hotel on
the second trip of the evening in ques-
ton.
Tuite-As Bray came along he said:
Come on, walk up with me-" I SAID:
"All right" and we went to the Hotel
Broad. Alderman Shape, who was
with Bray, went in with us, and we
went to the bar, where we had a drink.
Mr.. Nugent came over, and, addressing
Bray, said: 81 want to talk to you"
Bray and he then began to talk, and
I heard the city counsel say: "a HIN
dred's dear for you. l thought 1 could
get you for fifty"
The witness said thai the all grew
loud and angry and he departed.
Document Clerk Taylor said his min
ute book, to which he referred. showed
Bray to have been present on the night
of May 4, but that he had reached the
printing and stationery committee
meeting after roll-call. In reply to a
question by Mr.. Beers. he said that
Bray had entered the committee room,
remained a short time and gone out, to
return once more. The Fourteenth
Warder did not vote, and was not
called upon to vote on the stationery
and supply bids, he said.
Congleton-Mn Taylor, did Alderman
Bray speak in committee?
Taylor-Yes. sir.
The document clerk could not recall
the words of Alderman Bray.
Congleton-Did you get a message
that Bray and Mount were late?
Taylor-I have a recollection of a
message that Bray and Mount were
out with another committee and would
be late. We postponed the meeting,
waiting some twenty minutes for them
to arrive. I don't recall who brought
the message that the two would be
late.
The minutes of the committee meet
ing, while apparently immaterial, were
introduced in so far as they referred
to the vote to override the city coun-
sells opinion against awarding the con-
tract for the years stationery supplies.
Chairman Cairns, of the printing n
stationery committee, in reply to ques-
tions by Beers said that Bray did not
hear the opinion of the city counsel
read on the night of May 4.
Cairns-Alderman Bray spoke on the
contract. He said that the committee
ought to be capable of awarding the
contract without outside opinions.
It was brought out by Beers that
this was the same attitude assumed by
Bray a month before.
Alderman Shapes Story.
Alderman Shape testified that on May
4 he had been with Bray from $3.50 in
the afternoon to 1910 o'clock at night
"off and on" 1t was about $50 o'clock,
he thought, when he and Bray met
Tuite at Broad and Green streets and
the three j~ourneyed to the Hotel Broad.
Beers-After you entered the Broad
what did you do?
Snape-Took a drink.
Beers-What did you do then?
Snape-Why, we had another drink.
Beers-How many more did you have?
You needn't answer that. Was City
Counsel Nugent there?
Snape-Yes. 1 saw him and Alder
man Wright and another man at a
table in a booth with one vacant chair
After awhile Mr.. Nugent came ovel
with his watch in his hand and said.
Jim, 1 want to see you" Bray went
over with him and there was a hor
conversation right off the reel.
Beers-What was said?
Snape-I don't care to repeat it.
After some urging Shape said thar
the city counsel had said: You haC
to go to the Griesenheim to get yours
you wouldn't meet me across the stree
because that's where Nugent hang
out"
Snape-When this conversation start
ed 1 saw it wasn't the proper place fol
me to be.
Beers-What do you mean?
Snape-I saw it was a Democratic
row, and so 1 moved the boat.
Beers-Did you go right out; did yot
hurry?
Snape-I bade everybody good nigh
and took my time going. 1t was mS
time to go home, about 1890.
Beers-Was Bray roughly handled
Snape-If l had been handled tina
way I would have thought so.
Congleton-By roughly handled" d.
you mean physically. or just in words
Snape-Just in words.
He Drank Buttermilk.
Asked as to the Condition" of thos
in the Hotel Broad, Alderman Snap
said he wasn't in a position to judge
t This sent up a laugh from the spec
tators that was checked when the Al
derman swore that the strongest liquit
he had drunk on that day or night wa
lbuttermilk.