The Washington times., 1911-07-17
BURGESS TELLS
Of BIG JACKPOT
IN L0R|hER CASE
Duluth Man Says Wiehe
Talked About 1t in Weyer-
haeuser's Presence.
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COntlnueO lTOHl lIbl EdSc.J
attitude toward Taft and endless
speculation has beer INDUCED as to
this point. If he wants to help the
very apparent Hines-Lorimer game
of smirching the President, he can
do it without difficulty.
The Burgess testimony of today was
almost the first important new mat
ter developed by the present inquiry.
1t is common report that the COM
mittee's lawyers have been disap-
pointed repeatedly in witnesses. whose
stories on the stand were not so
effective as had been anticipated.
Mr. Burgess told OF his conversa-
tion with c. F. Wiehe. of the Hines
Lumber Company, on railroad train.
Wiehe, he said, told him jackpot Of
SlOO 900 had been raised to elect Lorimer
Wiehe told him 1t was impossible to put
anything through the Illinois Legtsla-
ture without money.
Weyerhausers Here.
Wiehe talked about these matters on a
train In Minnesota. Others present dur
ing the talk were Rudolph. John. and, hs
thought, Carl Weyerhaeuser. of the
Weyerhaeuser lumber family.
Burgess said that after this discussion
of Illinois corruption and of the use of
money to elect Lorimer, he talked about
the matter with Writ H. Cook, the Du-
luth lumberman, who has told the COM
mittee about the Hines -Deneen tele-
phone conversation.
Burgess said that Wiehe claimed to
have subscribed $4,000 to the Lorimer
jackpot.
by name, asked Burgess to write these
facts to H. H. Kohlsaat. Of the Chicago
Record MacManus was Bur
not an admirer of Lorimer, told him
about the Wiehe talk.
Cook Predicted "Hot Time"
Burgess was asked when he last saw
Cook. Cook being a devoted enemy of
Hines, the defense has been anxious TO
show that he Influenced Burgess.
Il saw him last Monday"
Did you talk over with him the
"Only mentioned that l was coming
to testify here"
What did Cook say7'
He said I'd have a hot time"
Did he refer to the weather."
Didn't he tell you to give 'em
hell?"'
NO"
Burgess told one remarkable story,
which, he said Wiehe related during
that conversation on the train. Wiehe
told about a detective, working for
Chicago agency, who was put on the
job Of getting evidence against LoH-
mer for one of the Chicago papers. This
detective went TO priest, Father
Green. for confession, and told Of his
work in getting evidence against Lori
mer Thereafter the priest refused to
grant him absolution until he should
make a clean breast of all he knew
about the Lortmer case.
Story That Was Never Printed.
According to Wiehe, a Chicago news
paper got wind of this story and pre-
pared to print 1t. Before doing so It
communicated with Father Green. The
priest declared that II that story were
printed he would use his influence
against the paper, and II would lose
half it's circulation. The story was
never printed"
On cross-examination Burgess was
pressed for more dttails of fthe Father
Green story. He said that when the
Chicago paper had its story prepared,
it-called up Father Green and asked
Green replied that he would retract
nothing-he thought they were doing
LorImer an injustice.
Burgess testimony was OF Importance,
because 1t contained much matter which
he did not cover in his testimony be-
fofre the Helm committee Of the Illinois
Legislature. He did not tell the Helm
committee that Wiehe tod about
$40. 900 fund to elect Lorimer.
Why did you not tell that story to
the Helm committee?" demanded Judge
HyEe, counsel for Hines.
Il was not asked questions that called
it out
when you appeared before the Helm
Il answered the questions that were
asked Of me-"
Burgess Story Attacked.
Burgess story of the 100000 fund was
attacked vigorously by Hines counsel,
but Burgess stuck vigorously for It. He
said that after hearing the WIehe story
be wrote Kohlsaat about It. This, like
wise, was not brought out before the
Helm committee
Burgess made a good witness His
story was not SO well memoriZed or
told so patty as those of somc witnesses
on the other side. The effort to break
down his $4,000 story was weakened
new features in his story which are
Of proof. For instance, the
letter Of Burgess to Kohlsaat was
turned over by Kohlsaat to Attorney
Hcaly. who was then acting for the
Helm committee and is now counsel for
the Senate committee. Mr.. Healy. being
urged by the attorneys for Hines, made
this explanation and said the letter is
new in the possession of Mr.. Kohlsaat,
who can produce it. Moreover, Bur
CESS said he kept a carbon copy of the
letter in his fles at Duluth.
Disappoints the Defense.
The development of this very impor-
tant new testimony was obviously dis
to the defense. Burgess
was grilled at length in the effort to
break II down. The defense even re-
uuired Burgess to draw a diagram Of
the smoking compartment of the car
in which the conversation took place,
showing where all the men sat while
the talk took place. It was evident
that the utmost effort is to be made to
show that the story is unreliable, but
the examination today did little toward
1t.
The Weyerhausers Named.
Not the least important bearing of
this new testimony is that II draws in |
two or three members of the house of |
The Weyerhaeusers are
understood to be very closely related |
in business to the Edward Hines Lum- |
Der Company; So closely that the Hines |
Company has repeatedly been referred |
10 as practically a part of the TVeyer- |
naeuser system. Burgess story sug-
yested the intimate affiliation Of the |
and Wiehe, and that dis |
.ussion of the Lorimer election. and its |
corrupt features among them was quite |
an ordinary affair
On cross-examinatio ton by Senator Jones |
hat he woS 49, |