The Detroit times., 1910-04-08
CONT hUES STORY
OF TRAP HE SET
E. FOR LOCKE
Alfred Wallerstein Testifes He
Saved Proof of Deal in Which
Member of Ionia Prison Board
Was To Get $6,25o Bride.
Says Locke Went To Michigan City
To Arrange for Sale Of Con-
tract for $4,000.

JACKSON, Mich. April ALFRED
Wallerstein. whose arm had q $l5i,-
900 contract which permitted the
manufacture of shirts, collars and
cuffs In Ionia prison, and which 10
suing the state because the contract
was rescinded. was recalled TO the
stand when court convened today and
crcssexamined by Assistant Attorney
General Lawler.
Wallerstein testified today that
when he made Alfred Locke. a mem
Der of the Ionia prison board OF con
troll, a proposition 10 give him half
of $4,000 IL he would get the board
TO rescind its action and renew the
contract, he told him he believed he
could sell the contract 10 Glazier and
Goodwin. OF Michigan City, and that
Locke said he would leave that night
for that place to see the firm.
wallerstein said the next day he
received a telegram from Locke which
was sent from Michigan City and
which read:
"Glazier and Goodwin In Chicago
Meet me Hotel Pentland. Grand
Rapids
Witness said he met him there and
Locke stated he had not made the
deal yet and would have to try again
and see Glazier and Goodwin. Waller
stein testified the day he received the
telegram he made a copy OF II and
sent the original TO Joe Weinhold or
Jackson. another member OF the Ionia
prison board OF control. He said he
was keeping Locke In ignorance OF
the fact that he was sending all the
proof to Weinhold
Wallerstein said he next saw Locke
in Ionia on June 90, when Locke told
him he had talked with Tawse, Of
Michigan City, foreman OF the Glaz-
ier-Goodwin factory. and told him
the board would probably renew the
Wallerstein contract, and that IL they
wanted TO buy II they could do 80
of Wallerstein.
Wallerstein was questioned about
the memorandums he had mado
touching on his conversations with
Locke and Glazier and Goodwin, and
was asked II he ever appeared before
the board TO have his contract trans
ferred.
He said he didn't think he did, per-
sonally, but that Hatch did, and that
he (Wallerstein) had talked to War
den Fuller and Locke about It, He
admitted he had no memorandum Of
this.
Did you think that was not i'm
portant enough TO make a memoran-
DUN OFF, he was asked.
Il only made memorandum Of
those things that had a bearing on
my belief that our contract was can
celled by bribery" replied the wit
ness.
Wallerstein denied he met with the
board in May 1903, and that the board
told him at that time he was not liv.
ing up 10 his contract because be was
not employing the number OF men the
contract called for. and that he was
in default of payment for labor.
Witness said this could not be true,
because he was using all the men
they would give him in May.
do you remember Of your telling
the board on June /. that IL they
would put off the cancellation of your
contract three or four weeks, that
you would go TO New York and raise
money 10 settle your defaults and get
on your feet again.
mo, had some such talk with the
board in July. after the contract had
been cancelled. had not the remot-
est idea, up to June 10. when the con-
tract was cancelled. that the board
had even thought OF such thing as
cancelling IT, told them at the July
meeting | was In New York to con-
fer with certain parties to put money
into this contract business. and that
had about completed those arrange.
ments when heard the contract was
cancelled q"