The Washington herald., 1910-04-03
Miss Ella Shartell Identifies
CLAWS Letters.
]. W. DUDLEY SUBPOENAED
Committee on Motion of Representa-
tive Madison Votes to summon Man
Who Is Alleged to Have Turned
Down BrIbe-InspectOr Parks Con-
firms StenOgrnpher's Testimony.

was stenOgrapher In the ONCE Oh l. H.
Glavis. was called to testify regarding
the twenty-four letters bearing on the
Cunningham claims which 1t has been
charged were concealed by CLAWS and
afterward found in one OF CLAWS pack
ing cases.
Miss Sharteli said she had made copies
of the letters for CLAWS early in Sep
TENDER. and identified copies which Mr..
Vertrees said he would show were found
in Claws box. She said she had turned
the originals and the copies over TO
CLAWS, and that it was the last she saw
OF them until February 8. 1910 Mr..
Christensen, Claws successor. brought
them into the Office. She had searched
the Office for them in October and No
vember and failed TO find them
Obtained an Admission.
On cross-examination, Mr.. Brandeis OBJ
tanned an admission from Miss Shartell
that in searching Tor the letters she had
not searched Mr.. Christensens desk. She
also testified an Office attaehe named
Parks had made a fruitless search of the
boxes where Christensen claimed week
later to have found four letters. and that
Christensen had said to Parks, You
didn't make a good search.
John w Dudley. former register of the
land Office at Juneau, Alaska, has been
| subpoenaed to appear before the commit
/ tee at once 10 testify relative to an al
legged attempt to bride him TO go to
Washington and testify as a witness
| against Secretary Ballinger. II. X Love.
whose CROSSE examination was resumed
yesterday morning, injected a new ele-
ment into the inquiry by casual refer
ence so conversation he had had with
Dudley
/ Il met Dudley at the Occidental Hotel
| at Juneau along about the Goth OF Feb
ruary" said Love. He told me II had
/ been intimated TO him that it would be
worth 5000 10 $1,000 10 him from Col
lier's Weekly if he would go to Washing
ton and testify against Judge Ballinger.
/ He asked me to tell Judge Ballinger
about it and say 10 him he was ready to
come and testify for him.
Members Of the committee sat up and
took notice at the suggestion that any at
/ tempt had been made improperly TO in
/ huence witnesses. Representatives Madi-
! son, James. and Graham and Senator
! Fletcher took Mr. Love In hand and
questioned him closely.
Questioned Closely.
Repeat exactly what Dudley said to
you" requested Representative Graham.
! 1--WE Just said what he said, answered
Love.
We'll. say it again" snapped Repre-
/ sentative James
Il only had about three minutes con-
/ versation with him" said the witness.
| He spoke about being let out of the
service, and then said he had been given
/ to understand # would be worth $500 to
! 10 $4,000 TO him from Golfers Weekly
to come down here and testify. He asked
me to tell Judge BaIlinger about it. and
said he was ready to come on and testi-
/ ~ for him.
What else did he say" asked Repre-
! sentative Madison.
That was about all replied Love
HE said he was going to take his case
| UP with the department and try to have
his record Strengthened out
Did you give Judge Ballinger the
message?" asked Mr.. Madison.
81 did not" said the witness.
Did you tell his attorneys" persisted
Mr.. Madison.
NO. sir"
why didn't you?"
We'll didn't think it was any of my
business" answered Love. land besides.
thought he might be mistaken-that he
might have misunderstood the matter"
Vote to summon Dudley.
"Mr. Chairman" said Mr.. Madison. Il
move that this man Dudley be subpoenaed
at once to appear before this committee.
We should go to the bottom of a matter
of this kind"
Senator Nelson put the motion, and ii
was adopted without a dissenting vote.
Frank L. SpauIding of Cheyenne, Wyo.,
former clerk and disbursing officer in
Louis R. CLAWS Office at Seattle, was
called by the defense. He was questioned
by Attorney Vertrees relative to an ex-
pense account turned in by CLAWS after
his trip to Beverly. Mass, last Septem-
Der to see President Taft. and testified
that there was an item of $50 for ste
nographic work in Chicago which CLAWS
afterward asked him TO omit from the
record. Spaulding said he told CLAWS it
could not be done, and CLAWS then asked
him to leave out the item, but carry for
ward the same total and make it appear
as an error of addition
On REORGANIZATION, the witness ad-
mitted CLAWS wanted the item cut out,
and did not want the government to pay
I 1T
ment could claim ali copies of ste
Rographic reports, and he wanted to re-
tain one or more copies
Representative James asked the wit
ness if he understood that CLAWS was
trying to cheat the government out of SIS.
mo, sir" answered Spaulding
In examining Mr.. Love Attorney Bran
deis endeavored to break down his tes-
timony centradieting the evidence given
by Specia Agent Jones, but the witness
adhered o his story. Representative
Graham created a diversion by interject-
ing a question as to whether Love was
an attorney at law.
NO" answered Love. 81 ran for law
yer and got beat"
1t was developed, however, that Love
had practiced law in South Dakota and
Washington several years ago.
George A. Parks an inspector attached
to the Seattle Office, referred to by Miss
Sharteii, told of his part In the search |
for the mysteriously missing papers, con-
firming substantially the young woman's
testimony. Garrett ". O'Neii, assistant |
custodian of the Federal building at
Seattle, who assisted Parks in his I'M |
successful search and Christensen in the |
search that revealed the letters, followed
Parks