The Oskaloosa herald., 1910-06-16
WHITES DIRECT
TESTIMONY CLOSED
Bribery Witness Subjected to Sc.
we're Cross-Examination.
MAN ELECTED FROM COURT
Politician, Who Figured In Extortlon
Case, ousted by States Attor.
ney--Will Take No Chances
With Jury.

WIKI Jury.
Chicago, June 15,--In the trial of
Lee o'Neil Browne, the vital question
OF the admissibility of the testimony
OF Representatives Beckemeyer and
Link was brought up by Judge Nc.
Surely, but decision was deferred at
the request OF Attorney Forrest of the
defense.
The court asked that authorities be
quoted in support of the prospective
defense argument that the testimony
OF these two legislators, alleged by
States Attorney Wayman to have
confessed to receiving brides to vote
for Lorimer for senator, be excluded.
White Resumes Story.
The jury. which had been excluded,
was then called into the crowded,
sultry courtroom and Representative
Charles A. White resumed his story
OF the bride which he charges Browne
gave him to vote for Lorimer Wit.
ness told OF trips which he and the
defendant made together to Muskegon
and st. Joseph, Mich, last July.
"aow did you spend the timer"
In cafes and similar places, and In
transacting some business"
Another line of questioning was
then adopted. White telling of loans
made by him to Browne
Tells of Loaning Money.
Il gave Browne 500 in the Briggs
house one time" related the witness.
He was writing check for that
amount and offered to lend him the
money" -., .....
Later, he said, Browne borrowed
an additional 500. and, again. $40.
All OF the money was repaid.
A number OF letters written by
Browne to White We're placed in evil
denee without objection by the de-
tense. TheBs told of sfnaF sums of
money sent to White and OF Brownies
efforts to get job for White through
Senator Lorimer.
Refuses SIS Month Position.
Other letters admonished White TO
''cut out the BOOZE" to make good"
and to cut his coat according to the
cloth"
A position at SIS month was Sc
cured for White, but he refused it.
He met Browne at Springfield later.
and Browne, according to the witness,
offered him $500 to assist in a cam
paign for reelection. White told the
minority leader, however, that he did
not intend to run again.
Asked what he did with the alleged
bride money, witness referred to a
notebook and read list of small
debts, running from Sl2 to $50. which
he said he had paid out of the money.
cross-Examination Begun.
Attorney Forrest then began his
cross-examination of White. going into
the minutest details of the witness
life as we'll as the charges of bribery
in the Lorimer election
White said he never had received
an offer of $3.50 a word for 10000
words of his story of legislative cor
ruption, as he had written to Senator
Lorimer he had
He admitted that he had attempted
to sell his story to Everybody's Mag,
aZine. but that 1t had been declined by
that publication. ....
He was forced to produce his con-
tract with the Chicago Tribune, which
showed that he received $4,000 for
the story that paper printed written
by him ..
Victory for the Defense.
There was victory for the defense
when White admitted that the sigma
ture on promissory note and letter
which he had written to the defendant
was his own.
This admission. according to Attor.
ney Forrest for the defense, opens an
avenue, which will show that White
had been holding up Browne for
money innumerable times. :"
A sensation was caused and the pro-
ceedings were abruptly stopped when
States Attorney Wayman had Ernest
Krulewitch, a well-known West side
politician. elected from the court
room.
Krulewiteh was under suspicion, ac-
cording to the prosecutor, when Mar
tin b. C'Skinny') Madden was being
tried ON charges of extortlon some
time ago, and the unexpected pres
ence of the man in the court room
created a furore.
States Attorney Explains.
States Attorney Wayman said that
he had taken him out because he had
brought suspicion upon himself during
the Madden trial
He did not want to take any chances
with the Browne jury. he said, al.
though Krulewitch was not making