The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-09

Bray-Went to OVERLOOK
Gaffeney-Where did you go from
there?
Bray-To the Greisenheim.
Gaffeney-What time did you get to
the City Hall?
Bray-Between 9 and 9:15.
Gaffeney-Who was with you?
Bray = Alderman Mount, Captain
Long and two other police officers.
Gaffeney-Who went with you TO the
Hotel Broad the first time?
Bray-No one!
McGowan-Was there any mention OF
money over the telephone?
Bray-It was something I didn't hear
If anything was said about that. ]
couldn't catch all that was said and
1 told the man I wouldn't meet him
and hung up the receiver.
wohlfarth-what time did you go tc
the Hotel Broad the first time?
Bray-About $40.
Wohlfarth-Didn't you know the
printing and stationery committee was
in session then?
Bray-No.
Congleton-what was the first place
mentioned by the man who called you
up in the morning?
oldt-4 CdAi I AcCdli. i dSheQ IL LLldt
was where Mr.. Nugent and the politi-
clans hung out-"
Congleton-why did you want to
know that? What vas there in this
partys communication that made you
want II know whether Mr.. Nugent
would be there?
Bray-Nothing; only ono when I had
occasion to meet Mr.. Nugent I remem-
Der it was at that place.
Where Meeting Place Was.
There was quite an argument as to
what this first place mentioned might
have been. Mr.. ~Congletoni bringing
out that it was a cafe in Broad street.
opposite the Hotel Broad.
Congleton-Did you telephone to the
City Hall that evening that you would
be late to the printing and stationery
committee meeting?
Congleton-You came to the City Hal
in a machine with these men you have
mentioned, and her left them and went
alone to the Hotel Broad. Is that
right?
Bray-Yes.
Congleton-why did you go to the
ALOtC LII ot tAoh LA
Bray-Because I felt like having a
glass of settler and a cigar. I had had
quite a little Of that May wine, they
call It, and 1 wanted to get some self
ger before going to the City Eall.
Sinnott-Didn't you often do 1t be-
fore?
Bray-Yes; 1 am well known for that.
Congelton-Did you say anything
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printing and stationery committee after
you went back to the City Hall from
your first trip to the Hotel Broad about
the printing and stationery contract?
Bray-Well, I said / didn't think that
it was fair and just to turn down an
act already done. / didn't fin out
until afterwards that the COMMITTEES
had lone anything about this con-
tract.
Congleton-You said you were called
to the phone that night at the City
Hall; what did you do after telephon-
ing?
Bray-I went upstairs and then went
out and stopped at the Hotel Broad.
Congleton-Who accompanied your
Eray-I understand Alderman Shape
and William E. Tuite followed me.
Congleton-Followed you? Who was
with you? N
Bray-I was alone. 1 saw them come
in behind me after I got to the Hotel
Broad.
1t took some time to establish Just
where the conversation between MI
gent and Bray had taken place. Mr..
Congleton created q laugh by saying
he didn't know the arrangement Of the
Hotel Broad's cafe. never having been
there. 1t was finally explained that the
talk had taken place in one of the
boxes or booths off the main barroom.
Gaffeney-Did this man who tele-
phoned you speak about the printing
and stationery contract?
Bray-Yes, he said something about
1t.
Congleton-That's the first time
you've said that.
Bray-He said something about 1t
and wanted to know If I vas going to
the printing and stationery committee
meeting. Yes, he said something about
the printing contract.
Congleton-What did he say?
Bray-Nothing that I could under
stand. l never consider it worth while
to pay attention to a man who wouldn't
give his name. He wouldn't tell me
who he was and 1 hung up.
Congleton-You agreed to meet him
at h Hotel Broad. then?
Bray-Afterward.
Observation-Disclosures Bray. did you
telephone to the City Hall the message
to the printing and stationery commit
tee that you would be late. asking that
action on this contract be deferred until
you arrived, and stating that you had a
date at the Hotel Broad?
Bray-No. sir. I deny all such accu-
sations.
Here Congleton switched and brought
out some facts Of Bray's biography.
among them that he had been an Alder
man about three years; that he had
moved to the Fourteenth Ward from
the Fifth a year before he was elect
ed to the Council; that he was active
in Fifth Ward politics prior to that,
and that he a lived in Newark since
1881. Alderman Sinnott interrupted
his questioning, demanding: What
are you trying to give us?"
Congleton-As / understand 1t, the
statements that were made in the Hotel
Broad and which we are to investigate
were not confined to one incident. In
the translation of a story appearing
in a German newspaper 1t is said that
Alderman Bray was accused of having
been bought from the beginning in
everything he had to do.
Quite a wrangle over the admission