New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-20
NAMES MEN AS SUBSCRIBERS
Declares Names Of Keene, WHIT
ney, Hyde, Engeman, Hitch
cock and Parsons Were
Mentioned TO Him.
DAY FULL OF SENSATIONS


mony Of One Of Sew
eral Albany Cor
respondents.
James P Keene. the Wall street spec
ulator and breeder OF thoroughbred
horses. Harry Payne Whitney. Dave
MITCHELL Charles H. Hyde. City Cham
berlain and campaign manager for May
or Gavnor. acting for William A Enge-
man President OF the Brighton Beach
Pacing Association; Gene Wood. ex-
.o1,,a1 ~ the black horse cavalry
..r5,,cbcocl. and Parsons" and represent
a-i,,ae Of the Metropolitan Turf Associ-
o+ion the old organization OF DooAInah-
ers we're named by Robert H Elder.
.-zis4an+ District Attorney Of kings
r-~,,,+1, yesterday before the legislative
graft inquiry committee as the men
Tho ex-senator Frank ]. Gardner Told
him met at DelmOnico's and su0scrlOeu
q half million dollar corruption fund 20
7afaa+ -be anti-racetraCk gambling Dill
at Albany in 1905
lin" C;afney. Charles F. Murphy's
close friend. was named as the man Wl"
handled $1,000 Of the fund Wnlie
Charley" HYDE was described as another
- tho distributors. and Long Pat Nc
ra-ran was said TO be the man VINO
snof1ed the game because he did not have
the passing out OF the cash
..S+eye'' L.'HOmmedieU. Of Orleans ard
NIAGARA counties, missed a chance 10
oct s. 600 for throwing the election 70
the racetrack men through the macr1-
ra+ionz Of McCarren. according TO the
testimony. while Grady. the old Tam
many warhorse. got only $1,000. IL was
started. and two Brooklyn Republicans
of -.,1nnentionable ancestry" held out
for $4,000 each
Mr.. Elder said Gardner did not tel
him how much Mr.. Hyde got. but he
added that the ex-senator. whose story
he said he was repeating. told him
that he had 20 pay out $4,000 OF his
share TO others because he was a man
of his word and couldn't get all that was
coming TO him. OF this $4,000 half
went 70 the president OF the Senate
Elder said Gardner told him. and Mr.
Elder said further that he understood
that the late John Raines. and not
Lewis Stuyvesant ChanIer. who was
Lieutenant Governor at that time. was
meant.
Said Foelker Got $4,000.
Otto G. FoeIker. whose story % at
tempted bribery has led 10 the other rev.
Citations. got $4,000. according TO Card
ner's story through Mr. Elder. Elder
said he had heard the sum was $4,000.
but Gardner said il was only $4,000
FoeIker told his own story on the stand
and said that he spUrned four offers
ranging from $4,000 through $4,000 tot
anything he might ask. and Mr. Elder
said that Gardner's story was that Can,
on Chase. Of Brooklyn. stuck SO closes
20 FoeIker in Albany that he could nOr4
throw his vote
FOelker told as part OF his story that's
ex-Shertf Alfred T. Hobley. who IS run-4
ming for Congress in FoeIkers place and
has been indOrsed BY the Independence
League. was one Of those who ap-
preached him. asking him 70 vote
against the bill and saying that he IN
derstOOd that some one was 20 get or
had got 100000 or $4,000 for his vote
against the bill
Two Brooklyn doctors. McCOrkle and
Hughes were sent 20 Albany 70 ex-
anime FoeIker and report that he was
too sick 70 go 20 the Senate chamber
and vote, according 20 Gardner. Mr.
Elder said. and again II was Canon
Chase's persistent guardianship that
made the plan abOrtive.
Newspaper men came IN for a share oc
the loot. Gardners story through Elder
continued, as follows SGcAfee. OF The
sun" got 5000. Patrick ReIfhan. OF
The Press $1,000. and Louis Seibold.
Of The World $4,000 But when the
Brooklyn Bridge was crossed the price
dropped 20 10 per cent OF the Manhattan
price. for according TO the testimony.
George Janvrin. Of The Brooklyn Ciri-
zen" got $500. TirreIl. OF The Eagle
now secretary 70 Controller Prendergasr.
$500 and the Brooklyn Times man
$500 But Early. OF The Standard
Union was left out. The witness said
they decided that he talked too much
when he was drinking and might tell
about H.
Newspaper Man Tsstifies-