The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-04-12

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 was made There was no connection
 there
 sThts loan was repaid to your
 ''Yes. He asked me how much inter
 est. I told him I got per cent. al 1 the bank. He said he would give me | 6 per cent
 Speaking of a subsequent loan, Azf1- darian said McKenna repaid him at Q
 rate good deal more than 6 pei cent.
 1 Azi1darian was getting peevish un-
 der the strain of continued examina-
 tion by Judson, and finally he blurted
 out: Do you want to know all about
 it?'' Judeon assured him that was his wish, and proceeded to question the witness.
 There was another loan of $50o' ''Yes."
 Was that repaid?" "Yes, sir" With interest ?'' Yes sir'' Was there anything said when thai | lean was asked that made it incum-
 bent upon you to make the foan-did
 you fear the consequences if you were
 You did not fear?" "No, sir.'' re- tcrted the witness. "I don't fear anybody. If he fires me. can get another job somewhere else" The witness flushed almost scarlet as he hotly declared his Independence and refuted the intimation that he made the deal with McKenna under fear of losing his place.
 Did you say anything--write him Or possibly phone him-about that back pay?" When found out that my pay stopped and the check didn' t come on the first or second day of December, came to Bridgeport to see I<l n IBA xrvI,~ It was the first Sunday in December. On Monday went to MT. McKenna's office and I asked him what the trou- bic was He asked me how I was feeling and I explained everything to him. and told him the doctor advised me to stay until Jan. l. He was kind enough to tell me to go back and agreed to it.
 'Then you haven't received pay for tfrat period up to Jan. 1?'' '.No, but of course he will fix it later on.' Judson then sought to refresh the memory of the witness relative to the paper which he had testified 'Bill'' McKenna presented to him while he was in the Hartford sanitarium but Azhdarian was still unable to tell what the paper purported to be. Judson then demanded the name of the sani- 1 tarium, it's location and the name of | the physician. '.It was the Wild wood" said the witness. ''Dr. Bart lett is in charge"
 'I propose said Senator Judson. ito have Senator Paddock look it up."
 The committee enjoyed a smile at the expense of their fellow investiga- tor, the Senator-Alderman from the 18th.
 In response to further questions the witness denied that "Bill'' McKen- na asked him to sign any paper. He admitted McKenna presented a paper to him. "There may have been a blank space for me to sign" he said. But he couldn't tell more about it. He said he was too sick to pay atten- tion to it.
 Then he took up the question of his
 visit to McKenna's office, and tired of the fishing of counsel, he volunteered to go into detail. He said McKenna wrote "a check or something like that. a check payable to me, on Jan. 16. I was to loan him some money, but l hadn't my check book with me and I told him so. Then he tore up the paper and that finished the transac- tion." Asked as to the amount of the loan proposed, the witness couldn't recall.
 Judson, still seeking to fasten the charge of coercion upon McKenna then asked the witness: When was it that you were paid the s75 which you drew from the city and afterwards loaned to MT. McKen- na?''
 Klein jumped to his feet with vio- lent objections. He protested to the committee that Judson was drawing an unfair inference. that the witness hadn't said it was the same $75. Then Judson amended the question
 Witness admitted he was paid since the investigation began
 Then he went back into the work of A7hdarfan in the engineers office. Witness said he went to work for the city regularly on April 20. 1910 Be- fore then he worked nights, while em- ployed elsewhere. Thus he accounted for several checks of varying amounts. The work at nights was at anything at all. He got s2 for the work. h. dexing. calculating, anything of the sort, he said, was embraced in his work There was not enough help in the office at the time. "The truth is,'' asked Judson, that you were required to come down here and do Mir Me- Kenna's calculating and estimating. That's the truth, isn't it?'' "Yes, sir,'' said the witness
 Did MT. McKenna threaten you with bodily harm at that time" quer- jed Judson Jumping back to the con versation between the two when he called at the engineers office on his visit from Hartford 'FNo sir"
 Did he in the presence of Miss Vincellette tell you he would knock your head off if you didn't let him have the money" 'No. sir,' exclaim- ed the witness. "but now that you mention the words, I remember. He didn't make any bodily harm'
 But he insisted that this incident wasn't in connection with the loan ''It was something else altogether diff ferent," he protested
 Klein took him in hand again.