Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-29
FAVORED LORIMER
BUT TOOK $4,000
State Senator D. 7. HoltSIaW
Tells Committee of Re-
ceiving Money
GETS HIS SHARE OF JACKPOT
Legislator Claims He Did Not
Know Why $500 Was
Presented Him
GETS HIS SHARE OF JACKPOT
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CHICAGO, Sept. 2S.-State Senator p.
T. Holstlaw of Iuka, one of the fifty
three Democrats who voted for the
election of Senator William Lorlmer,
on the witness stand today before the
senatorial investigating committee, tes-
titled that after he had voted for Sem
ator Lorimer he received $25O0 and that
he supposed the money was paid be-
cause of his vote.
The state senator, who until recently
was a banker In Iuka and had some
prominence in the Baptist church, was
the second legislator to tell the COM
mittee that money was paid because
of a vote for Lorimer.
Senator Holtslaw, in response to the
question by Attorney Austrian, was
anything said about payment for your
vote for Senator Lorimer?" said:
"The night before the election of
Senator Lorimer 1 met State Senator
John Broderick outside the ST. Nicholas
hotel in Springfield. and he said to me:
They are going to elect Lorimer to-
morrow
81 replied: Yes. think SO, and am
going to vote for him.
REFERS TO MONEY
HE said: We'll, there is $4,000 In it
for you.'
"That was all that was said. I in
tended to vote for Lorimer anyway,
and had made up my mind three or
four days before that and did not know
there was a thing in 1t for me-
Were you offered anything?" was
asked, and the witness replied
HE did not offer me anything, and
simply said there was $2500 in it for
me-"
Ibid you get the s25OO?"
"Yes," was the answer. II went to
Chicago about June 16, 1909, to Senator
Broderick's office and he gave me
$2500, which he counted out of an en-
velope. He merely said Here's that
money and 1 said nothing to him be-
yond greeting him when 1 met him."
On further examination, Holstlaw
said he supposed the money was paid
for his vote for Lorimer
In response to the question by Sena-
tor Frazier, Holstlaw said Broderick
was the first man to speak ito him re-
garding voting for Senator Lorimer.
Ibid you ask what the $500 was for,
or who was paying it?" queried Senator
Frazier.
ASKS NO QUESTIONS
mo-" was the reply, 'T asked moth
ing"
The witness declared he had had no
other conservation with Broderick rela-
tive to the vote, and that he went to
Chicago to see Broderick in response to
letter, the substance of which was a
request from Broderick that he (Holst-
law meet him in his office.
Did Broderick owe you anything?"
asked Senator Frazier.
mo" was the reply, and the same
monosyllabic negative was the wit
ness reply to the questions did you
have any claim upon him?" and WAS
versation before the election for the
payment?''
Further on Holstlaw said that later
Broderick paid him $780,
when got the $500 Senator Broder-
ick simply said that much was coming
to me, and 1 simply took it. 1 don't
know what it was for"
The $500 has been referred to as part
of the alleged jackpot fund.
CONFESSION RECALLED
Senator Paynter asked the witness if
Senator Lorimer or the senatorial cleo
ton was mentioned when he received
the $2500 from Senator, Broderick.
Neither Senator Lorimer nor the
senatorial election was mentioned
them" said Senator Holtslaw.
A confession signed by Holtslaw May
%, 1910, when he was before the Sanga-
mon county grand jury, was presented,
and Attorney Austrian called the atten-
ton of the witness to his statement
there that "Broderick told me there was
$2500 in it for me if L would vote for
Lorimer."
On cross-examination Attorney Han
ecy brought out that Holtslaw had told
many persons prior to the Lorimer cleo
ton that he had made up his mind to
vote for Lorimer.
Asked by Senator Johnston what in
duced him to vote for Lorimer, the
witness replied:
1--WE had tried so long to elect a Dem
ocrat and could not, 1 thought electing
Lorimer would make the breach wider
in the Republican ranks. 1 naturally
liked Lorimer, and just made UP my
mind to vote for him."
RECEIVES NO ADVICE
'oWho advised you the time had come
to vote for Lorimer?" was asked.
mo one"
Did you know that anyone was paid
to vote for him."
"I did not"
At the afternoon session Chairman
Burrows announced that Representa-
tive White would be permitted to tell
what he did with the money he said he
received for his vote for the election of
Lorimer and his share of the alleged
jackpot, without making the ruling of
precedent in other testimony.
White then began recital of his ex-
penditures, beginning with his pay
mont of dabts in O'FallOn. Ill his home
town.
White testified that he did not de-
posit any of the $1,000 he says he re-
ceived for voting for Senator Lorimer
in any bank, but left about $500 of it
over night in the custody of the cash
ier of a department store in East St.
Louis.
He also said that he did not deposit
in any bank any part of the 5000 he
alleged he received as his share of the
alleged jackpot.