The evening times., 1911-08-04
WHITE admitted
TELLING LIES
Warm Time For the Confessed
Bribe Taker During the
Cross Examination

Washington, Aug. with sting
in nearly every question, counsel for
Senator Lorimer again today subject
ed Charles A. White, confessed bribe
taken, In the Lorimer election to q
rigid cross examination before the
senate committee.
"You deliberately lied when you
wrote to Senator Lorimer on Decem-
Der 4, 1909 that you had finished yoSr
story, didn't you?" asked Attorney
Hanecy.
"Yes SIR
when you wrote the senator you
had been offered approximately $3.50
a word you told cold, bold lie?"
"It was falsehood"
White said he had been "coerced
in degree" to let the Tribune print
his story, because they had turned
it over to the states attorney"
you knew you violated your oath,
made yourself Infamous under the
Illinois constitution and disqualified
yourself for holding any Office when
as you say, you took these bribes?"
asked Hanecy.
Eyes, and knew those who were
paying me were doing the same thing
and SO were the special interests
which were putting up the money to
do it,"
Religion, morality, civil government
and literature figured yesterday be-
fore the senate committee along with
reputed corruption in the kllindis
legislature during the cross examina-
finn nf White 1Jic IN of
not concluded when the committee
adjourned until tomorrow. Whites
ideas along many subjects were de-
velope dto show his character and
literary ability. Whether he had the
ability to write his confession" has
been disputed. After White had told
of the old "deities," levying on their
subject to build the pyramids, to
show he had read Roman history, and
after he had quoted Ingersoll's ora
tion at his brothers grave to prove
that Ingersoll really was not an athe-
ist, Attorney Hanecy who conducted
the cross examination for Senator
Lorimer, took up other subjects.
Throughout the day, White stuck to
his testimony previously given, al
though his attention was called to the
fact that others had testified different
ly. To repeated questions, he de-
clared that Sidney Marlborough was
in his room the night Lee O'Neill
Browne called White out to get him
to vote for Lorimer and not in Chi
cago, as others claim. He denied
having told George Gloss, the Chicago
street car man that he was going to
vote for Lorimer and also denied a
conversation to similar effect which
Representative Shaw swore he had
held with White.
White admitted that the letters he
wrote to Browne and Senator Lori
mer contained pure and simple lies, +"
"Anglo-Saxon lies," hypocrisy" !"
"falsehoods." and other harsh names
but White added almost each time
that he had uttered them to get ad-
missions to substantiate the expos
ure he was preparing to make.
White was asked why he was kept
in the custody Of officers from the
night he sold his Confession" to the
Chicago Tribune, until after the first
senate Lorimer hearing.
"Wayman Estates attorney in Cook
county, said he didn't want me to get
hurt, was all I know" said White.
White said he was denied counsel
while In custody.
II had Tom Webb. a lawyer in East
st. Louis, come up to Chicago-paid
him $40-but when he came, had
to tell him Wayman would not treat
with him." said White.
"Why didn't you just walk away
from the detectives?" asked Senator
Kenyon.
II didn't want to be ungentlemanly.
I knew they were ordered to do it by
their superiors."