The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-10-20

New York city and was formerly q
law partner OF Mayor Gaynor. Mr.
Keene In the wel-known racing mar
\ and millionaire stock market opera
! tor. Mr. Parsons" was not further
identified.
He" (Gardner), continued Mr.. FL
der, said there was dispute about
who should handle the money. Final
| ". he said. $125.000 was given TO
James c. Carney TO take care OF
three or four members OF the legis-
lature-Tammany men. he said"
Mr.. Carney is president OF Carney
Construction Co, which has handled
many municipal contracts.
IL asked him the total amount OF
this fund" the witness resumed. "and
he said, oh considerable told him
that had heard 100000. He said
that II had guessed 100000 would
have been nearer the mark. or this
sum. he said, Senator Grady got only
$4,000 and | might imagine what the
others got
Says Mccarren Was Angry.
Senator McCarren. he said, was
angry because he did not have the
handling OF the fund and because a
strange man was going up there ex-
pecting TO get away with such a pro-
position He attributed the passage
OF the bill TO McCarren's displeasure.
McCarren was secretly in favor OF the
bill, he said, and wanted TO be re-
venged because he had not been con
suited
Then came mention OF the press.
He" (Gardnerl, resumed Mr.. FL
der, said the newspaper men were
literally taken care OF out OF the
fund"
Asked for the names OF these men.
Mr.. Elder said:
Il recall, he said, a man named
Joe McEntee. OF the Sun. got $4,000:
that Patrick Relihan. of the Press. got
$4,000; that Louis Seibold. OF the
World, got $4,000: George Jandrin. OF
the Brooklyn Citizen. $4,000, and Tir.
rell. OF the Brooklyn Eagle. $500. He
said the Times man. OF Brooklyn got
$500"
After Mr.. Elder finished his testi.
mony, George Tirrell, secretary 10
Controller Prendergast, and until Jan.
!, Albany correspondent of the Brook
lyn Eagle. took the stand and testified
that Gardner had offered him 5000 at
Albany, and how he had declined IL.
Just before adjournment was taken
until today. NJ Linn Bruce, counsel
for the committee, said:
Il do not state that these news
paper gentlemen accepted the money.
But | shall afford them full oppor-
tunity 10 tell their stories"
Toward the close of his long nara
tive, Mr.. Elders memory began TO fail
him and counsel for the committee re.
freshed IL with questions. Little light
was thrown on the part taken at AL
bany by Mr.. Hyde.
He" tGardner), said Mr.. Elder,
told me he went to Albany with
Hyde because Hyde didn't know the
ways OF Albany and how 10 approach
people
the meeting at Delmonico's for Will
liam Engerman, who had failed to
pay, and that Hyde had put In a bill
for personal expenses to reimburse
himself. He said he had an arrange
ment with Hyde by which he was to
be paid for doing the work at AL
bany, but that Hyde did not pay him
and that this made IL necessary for
him TO take $4,000 out of the amount
he did get elsewhere to make good on
two agreements. Five thousand Of
this money. he said. went to the presi-
dent OF the senate"
Said Foeiker Took $4,000.
The witness was reminded that the
then president OF the senate, Lewis
Stuyvesant Chanler, had voted for the
bill.
did you understand that he meant
Senator Raines Republican leader
and president pro tenn OF the SEN
ate)?" asked the counsel
so understood" said the witness.
Il ask d him more about Foelker,"
continued the witness. picking up an
other thread "He said Foelker had
taken $4,000 to vote against the bill
and then had voted for il anyway. He
said: You know Foelker was a sick
man and We had a scheme to bring
him TO Albany and have three doctors
there pronounce him too sick to go to
the senate. out Canon Chase stuck so
close to him that the scheme fell
through"
Further questions brought out the
name OF the late Eugene Wood, here
tofore mentioned in the Investigation,
as also present at the meeting at Del
monico's.
Assemolyman Foley. of the commit
tee, asked il the conversation between
Mr.. Elder and Gardner had been taken
down geographically.
No said the witness. eft would
have been useless. didn't know II
II was true, and | don't know IL 1t is
true now
Before Mr. Gardner testified Mr.
Foelker told how he had been told
TO name his own price" He had
been approached, he said. by both
Gardner and Frederick Schroeder
formerly quarantine commissioner
now serving a sentence I'm Sing Sing
for larceny-and as high as $50, zoo
had been offered for his vote.
Mrs. Gardner, who was Mary Yerby
an actress, listened to her husbands
quizzing by the commission and hi:
refusal to answer. She took II philo
sophically. IF one marries a poll
tician." she said, "one must expec,
unpleasant things to happen now and
then"
Newspaper Man Denies.
Concerning the statement OF Mr.
Seibolo made this statement las
night:
AS understand Mr.. Elders state
ment, he says that ex-senator Gardner
told Inn that he paid money 10 Ger