The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-20
TWO SEPARATE GRESSERS
ROR0f Gu PRESIDENTS LAM
YER NAMES rms POINT.
Obse-t- to investigating what Was bone
ntirr Gr~Sser's Previous Ndnsinis-
trAtion The rrstinaany Admitted
bs special commissioner Ordwn,.

At Yesterday session in Long i-land
city 81 the inquiry by Commissioner
samuel II Orriway Of charges OF incom-
p.-tency and neglect On tn. part OF Dor
ough President Lawrence Gresser oil
Qisens tn. question came mp whether
testimony having To- 10 with dresser =
PREVIOUS administration should be ad-
mitted. In objecting to its admission
chase Mellen. Gresscr's counsel. said
The Lawrence dresser who is President
of Qu-ens in the year 1910 i utterly I'M
Connectsi ani has no relation whatever
with the Lawrence Gre,s-'er who Vas ap-
rointed President Of Queens IN ION.
Legally they ara a. separate ana dis
tinct a any two entities What Is intro
duCed a. having occurred IN 1870 had no
relation to tn. President dresser OF 1910.
In admitting the evidence in question
AS tending to show that President Gresser
had notice OF the conditions prevailing
in Queens Commissioner Ordway said
that II would not be- possible for HIM 10
state lust what he would do with this
and other similar evidence until he got
to summing up the case previous to max
ing his report
The quest ion as To- the admission Of such
evidence arose when Chief Bookkeeper
David ". Murphy was on the witness
stand 10 give testimony bearing ON Gres-
ser'- administration in 1909.
A tilt occurred when bill and voucher
made out to Gustavs Newman for the hire
Of a horse and carriage was presented TO
Murphy and on which the date of the bill
had been altered from December to De-
L.. fall n - hars,I .ar
the outfit. while the amount had been
raised from charge for eight days to a
full months pay. In his testimony. given
some time ago Newman said that his rig
had been used for campaign purposes
during the month Of October. for when
he received no pay from the city. hut later.
when he put in his bill for the month Of
November and eight days in December. he
was told that he would receive sie0, the
pay for two full months, but instead ne
received only $40.
Murphy was asked to identify the hand
writing IN which the original bill had been
changed when he told Commissioner Ord
way that he had been called before the
Grand Jury upon the very same subject
and he did not know that he could be com
PEELED to give before the Commissioner the
same evidence he had given before the
Grand Jury.
III is an extraordinary thing said Mr.
Mellen, that something IL given TO ths
Grand jury on. day and the next IL u
produced as evidence before this investi-
CATION
Commissioner Ordwav ruled that both
the Grand Jury and the investigation over
which h. was presiding were a'ting unde'
authority from the Governor. and ne
dire ted the witness to answer. Murphy
identified tn. handwriting as that Of one
If the bookke-pers in the Borough Eali.
Oliver Whit-on a member Of the board
II governors II the Progress Society OF
Far Rockawav. testified 90 alleged ne
glsct 81 the hi highways. He -aid that an
organization was being effected having
FOR it, purpose the taking OF the Rock
awavs out 81 the Borough Of Queens and
adding them to Nassau county.
Harry r EuChberger. alsn member
Of the board Of governors Of the Progress
Societv. testified 10 the u-. II ashes IN
repairing the streets in Far Ronkaway
John J. DOwd. a butcher OF Is Queen.
street. Long Island City. testified that d
number Of bids made IN his name for re-
I pal ing culverts in Queens were fraud
ulent.
( William Broome q mason of 81 Third
street Long Island City, testified that he
drax more than xsD from IN" city for IN.
work 81 a horse and Ca-t credited To him
on the city paw list low somebody HI
said he rendered no service.