The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-08-13
| expose alleged corruption there.

and expose alleged corruption there.
 He testified that he did not person ally know of any jackpot, or other corrup- tion, during his service in the legislature, except when Lee O'Neal Brown offered him Sl0OU to vote for Lorimer; that he prompt ly accepted this offer and agreed to vote for Lorimer, and subsequently, demanded more money and received $900 from the alleged jackpot; that he had not voted for or against any bill in the legislature for which said jackpot fund was sup posed to be raised. done any act to en- title him to share in it.
 He testified that when elected he re- ceived passes in Illinois over the railroads and sleeping cars, and round-trip tickets; that he permitted these to be used by his friends, and had stenographer to change the destination on the round trip tickets and Pullman car passes or tickets and gave these out to his friends.
 That he had no income from other sources, but received the following sums from January, 1909. until about June. 1910: For legislative salary and mile From Lee ONeal Brown, Lorimer
 money .......:...s.............. 1000 From Wilson, jackpot money.......... 900 From the Chicago Tribune for his
 story ....'''.......'.'..'.'... Sooo
 In all ........................... ..$foO0
 That from May 90, 1910 until about De ceniber 10, 19l0 he was in the custody of officers, who paid all his hotel bills and travelling expenses. out of the public money, but by December, 1910, he was en- tireiy out of money having spent the whole $7500 and accounting for less than s5n0 in paying debts.
 "ln-June and July, 1909, he received the brbe money s1900, but in August he be- gan writing to Lee ONeal Brown to bor- row money, saying that he was hard up and making other appeals to him. Brown lonned him about this time several sums aggregating $150 He also begged Brown to secure him some place. He swore that whilst he was appealing to Brown for money and aid and protesting warm friendship for him he tWhitB) was en- gagged in preparing the story which he aeterward sold to the Chicago Tribune for $3500, and in winch he charged Brown with having paid him a bribe of $10O0 That in these letters he wrote Brown he made many statements that were false, and that he really did not want a place or the money but that they were written to trap Brown into some statements that he could use in his story to corroborate Browns corruption and for the purpose of trapping him.
 That he wrote Lorimer for a place ,sith the same view and finally when he mad finished his story" he wrote Lori mer that from an offer he had received for the story it was worth $2.50 word and contained 5000 words. He swore that he had never, at that time, received any offer and did not know how many words there were in it, and that his state ments were pure and unadulterated Anglo Saxon lies" He wasn't sure, but thought if Lorimer had sent s750OO he would have taken it.
 That he had spent the s7500 received as stated in drinking, rlotous living and in frequenting house of i'll fame, in period of about one year.
 "TIe swore that he did not consider breaches of the moral law so serious as those of statutory law, but that he really thought them wrong. That his reading was confined to newspapers, magaznes one pr two novels. a little ancient history and Bob Ingersolls complete works. which he thought very fine.
 He admitted under oath that he had committed perjury, violated his oath as a legislator and other infamous crimes. His frequent admissions of telling "rlaln Anglo7Saxon lies" were made without a blush. or apparently any shame or sense of responsibility to any higher power or the regard of mankind. smiling during much of the time he was testify ing to this
 ls "lIe said that he testified on the trial of Lee O'Neal Brown to the same facts as | stated here. who was promptly acquitted. the result had the Jury believed White. ! All during his testimony he insisted that he received these bribes and told
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