Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-26
PROBE GOES DEEPER
Lorimer Election Under Rigid
Processes at Springfield.
BRIBERY CHARGES HEARD
Midnight Trip to Warn Parties
Against Process Servers.
TESTIMONY OF C. H. WIEHE
Alleged Conference With Gov. De-
neen-President Taft and Sen
ator Aldrich Quoted.
TESTIMONY OF C. H. WIEHE

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. April &c. F.
Wiehe. brother-in-law of Edward Hines
of Chicago, lumberman. yesterday adj
United before the senate bribery investi-
CATION committee that Hines sent him
on a midnight mission to the Grand Pa
cific Hotel in Chicago in an effort to
have w. II. Cook and William O'Brien
q Minnesota lumberman. evade Cook
county process servers at the time the
charges that bribery was used in the
| election of William Lorimer to the
United States Senate were first published
in May, 1910.
| Wiehe's statement followed the testi-
mony Of ". H. Cook Of Duluth. who. it
was brought out, had written a threat
ening letter to Hines. Wiehe corrob-
GRATED some of Cooks statements. but
denied the pungent part Of his charges
Cooks Testimony.
! Cook declared that he was in a room
at the Grand Pacific Hotel In Chicago on
May Is, 1909, with William OBrien and
Edward Hines, when Hines telephoned to
| some one called Governor at Spring
field.
During this alleged telephone converse
| ton, by Hines. Cook said that Hines de-
1
ready to take the next train to Spring
! field with all the money necessary to ef-
feet William I-orimer's election to the
| United States Senate. Lorimer's election
| occurred later that same day.
M. B. Coan, investigator for the COM
| mittee, testified that he had interviewed
| William OBrien in Duluth within the
last week and that OBrien told about
that .O'Brien got the impression that for
mer Gov. Richard Yates was on the
Springfield end OF the telephone.
| Wiehe said on cross-examination that
i Hines was with O'Brien and Cook at the
Grand Pacific Hotel May 26. 1900, holding
q business conference.
Gov. Deneen Issues Statement.
Following the recital Of Cook before
the investigating committee, Gov. Charles
S. Deneen issued a statement In which
he declared that he had never at any
time held such conversation with Hines.
Former Gov. Yates also denied that he
ever had any such conversation with
Hines as that related by Cook.
Wiehe stated to the committee that he,
Ialthough not in the room when Hines got
1.-THE Springfield CALL believed that Hines
talked to William Lorimer.
Wiehe testified that May g. 1900 Hines
returned to Chicago from Washington at
$50 o'clock In the morning. Hines went
direct to the Continental and Commercial
National Bank. Wiehe said that he did
not go to the bank with Hines, but ar
ranged for the latter to meet Cook and
lO'Brien at the Grand Pacific Hotel at IL
O'Clock. The Minnesota men were to
| confer regarding the Virginia and Rainy
were stockholders and of which Hines
was president.
Wiehe said that Hines had put in
| several telephone calls to Springfield that
6oN AppA hA
was calling. Hines at a previous hearing
testified that he talked with Gov. Deneen
! that morning from the Continental and
Commercial National Bank
| Cook yesterday declared that he an
swered the telephone in his room at the
Grand Pacific when the call came for
Hines.
II understood the central girl to say:
Springfield for Mr.. Hines" testified
Cook. He then related the conversation
as he remembered it. as follows:
''Is This You, GOVERNOR"
Hines took the receiver out of my hand
and he spoke in ire phone. He asked.
| Hello, hello, hello. Hello, is this you,
governor he said. Well. Just left
President Taft and Senator Aldrich last
night in Washington. Now, they tell me
that under no consideration shall Hop
will be down on the next train. Don't
leave anything undone. l will be down
on this next train, prepared to furnish all
the money that is required. Now, don't
| undone l will be down on the next
train or words to that effect; repeated
| 1t over three or four times"
Cook was specific regarding the matter
! or money being mentioned and on cross
| examination repeated this part Of the
| conversation. On this same point of the
| Grand Pacific Hotel conversation by
| Hines, Wiehe testified.
| why, the conversation was substan-
TALLY or practically as follows: L have
just talked with the governor on the long
distance telephone. and he assures me he
VIII do what you ask. You know that
| the administ-ation-yOu know what the
| administration wants. Now, leave no
| stone unturned to be elected. I will get
| down to Springfield II necessary in the
morning. And when he got through talk
| ing he turned TO the people in the room
and said: 1 have just been talking to
Senator" Lorime-.' -
Midnight Interview.
/ Wiehe stated that he, Cook. O'Brten,
;snac Baker and Hines were present at
tho time. Almost a year later according
to both Cook and Wiehe. Cook and
CBrien we're again at the same hotel
The Lor;mer story was then being printed
IN the Chicago newspapers
Cook testified that Wiehe came to him
| and OBr:en at midnight, saying that
| Hines declared that process servers were
looking for the Minnesota men to SUBJ
| poena them before the Cook county
grand jury as witnesses in the bribery
| probe.
| 'Wiehe said Hines had got him out OF
bed to warn us 20 leave Chicago at once
| testified Cook
"Wiehe declared to me and O'Brien that