The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-26
HELM COMMITTEE
GETS IN DEEPER
WITNESS SAYS HINES TALKED
TO GOV. DEcEEN nv MIS-
TAKE--WANTED YATES.
WITNESS MADE THREATS
Niehe MaSea coos Confess He Tried
to BlacSnail iiim--Mtcormick
Was Offered Bribe--chi-
casoans in Contempt.

CSGoenS VI ConVempt.
Springfield, ILL.,, April 25,-W, Fl
Cook, an official Of the Virginia ani
Rainy Lake Enmber Co., Of Dulnth,
Minneso a. testifying before the
sIelm committee this afternoon
which Is investigating charges OF
bribery in the Lorlmer election al
nitted he held conference with I'll.
ward Hines at the Grand Pacific Ho-
tel in Chicago shortly before he
election.
Cook testified that Hines met niin
ind Mr. Purrish another lamber-
| nan from Duluth in the lobby Of the
Grand Pacific.
How are things going down at
N'ashington?" Cock said Purrist
asked him,
Cock said Hines answered "Llke
| atli"
| Cook then stated that Zines sali
he decided he lumber interest
Inceded a better senator at Washi lg
ton and that Lorimer had been se'
lected as the proper man.
Relating another conversation
hich he said tcok place at the Graai
Pacific, May 25, 1909 Cook testified
v met Ttines by appointment n
anged BY G. r. Wiehe.
mfr. Hines" said Cosk. was com.
hg hack fiom washington that day.
Mr, Hines came into the hotel from
he JAG son boulevard entrance
stei the number Of my room SO that
e could receive long distance tee.
phone call which he had put in VIII
lam OBricn Of Duluth YVES aso
with rs.
Talked With Deneen.
During our ak tho telephone rlEg
| answered it and the girl sara
Here's Springfield, the governor !.
Vi the wire.
"Illnes told tAe governor that he
rad just left senator Aldrich and
President Taft In Washington tne
| night before and they insisted Sen
ator Hopkins could no be returned
. the senate.
| "1iines said over the phone Its all
settled. governor. I'll be down i
| springfield on the next train with all
The money that Will be needed, Don't
| stop at any hing"
i Deucen Denies.
/ Gov. Deneen issued statement
| ate this afternoon in which he EN-.
| nhatically denied that he had ayei
Aeld a long distance telephone con
ersation with Edward Hines such a.
vas related by w. II. Cook on the
witness stand before he bribery com.
tmittee
| Cook then stated that he had
Injecting with c. F. Wiehe a year later
in May or June, 1910. This also oc.
cured with William OBrien at the
Grand Pacific,
"Wiehe seemed extremely anxious
FOR us to get out OF own at once.
Browne Grand jury
"He said that we would be called
before the grand jury which was in
vestigating the Lee O'Nell Browne
bribery case. Wiehe told US thai
Hines called Wiehe out of bed to
send him tWiehe) to the Grand Pacl
hc to hurry o'Brien and me out OF
town"
Cook stated that this meeting with
Wiehe occurred at midnight O'Brien
and | expressed some reluctance 10
hurry out Of town in any such way
| without having any sleep. So we
finally decided to go to bed at the
Grand Pacific which we did Wiehe
| axpostulated and declared that Hines
vas In serious danger and that the
newspapers would "ge,n him u
something did not intervene.
/ Deneen BY Mistake.
/ Cook next related meeting with
Edward Hines in the office of Attor-
ney Alfred II, McCord, l. G., IN the
Rookery huilding in Chicago.
"At this time" Cook testified.
"Hines referred to the telephone eall
which had taken place in my room at
the time the telephone girl said the
governor was on the line"
Cook said that Hines was greatly
excited because he (Rinesl said that
he had just discovered that instead