Bisbee daily review., 1911-07-01
GIRL OFFERED
 A HUGE BR|BE
Secretary to Congressman Asked to Betray Army
 Shoe Scandal Secrets
TELLS OF BEING WATCHED

WASHINGTON, June BOA new and decidedly sensational phase of Representative Diffenderfers army shoe contract scandal came to light today when the Pennsylvania repre- sentative's young woman stenographer admitted that she had been offered a large sum of money as a oribe to induce her to surrender to an uni identified man important documents in her possession relating to the al leged irregularities in letting army shoe contracts.
 Miss Lillian A. Dorworth is the name of Representative Difenderfer's secretary, and she reluctantly told this afternoon of the attempt made May l3 to bribe her. The papers in question, MT. Difenderfer said, con tained startling facts which, when disclosed to the house committee now investigating war department expend- itures. would show an almost unbe- iievable situation in the matter of letting contracts for shoes for the regular army The firm that Repre- sentative Dtsenderfer charges had been favored in the matter of these contracts, is Hermann and company of Boston.
 Telling the story of the attempt to bribe her to give up the documents relating to the shoe contracts, Miss Dorworth this afternoon said she was alone in Representative Difenderfer's
 room in the house office building.
 May 13, when a man whom she did not know entered and asked for the representative. She told him MT. Difenderfer was in Philadelphia but
 would be back the next Monday.
 Offered Big 6ribe for Papers The man told Miss Dorworth his name was Cox. she said, and after
 being told that he could see MT. Diff 'enderfer Tuesday. she expected him to go.
 But he didn't" said Miss Dorworth.
 He began to talk to me about the
 shoe contracts for the army and MT
 Difenderfer's investigation. He said
 he wanted to know about it. I re-
 piled I knew nothing about it. He pressed me further with inquiries, be-
 coming very insistent. Do you mean
 to tell me, he said, that you do not , know anything about it, or that you
 do not know anything that you will
 tell me2'
 You may take it any way you !, please, l replied.
 Then he changed his manner and ' said he would like very much to have
 certain papers in my possession bear !, ing upon the case. said knew noth- ! ing about any papers /and he grew
 more specific, naming the documents
 he wanted. l still insisted, this time 1 rather angrily. that it was useless to ask me for any papers.
 At that he leaned forward and I, said that if 1 would give him certain l papers-namtng them-he would pay me well for them. He wanted to know
 how much I would take. l became Y frightened and attempted 10 end the k conversation.
 l Would that much be enough?' he
 asked, naming a large sum. All ! the money in the treasury would not
 induce me to give you those docu-
 ments. ] answered.
 offiee Watched by Strange Men
 He got up abruptly, said he would
 be back Tuesday and left. He never
 has been back. but I am sure I could recognize him anywhere. Almost
 every day since then I have noticed
 strange men watching the door cf AIr. Difenderfer's office. Several times an Italian stood in front of the half open door for fully 15 minutes. Fi- nally l went across the hall and told l. Representative Esch about it, and he said he would leave the door of his room open and he or his secretary, NIT. Lewis, would help me if I called for them at any time. When I no ticed that the Italian followed me on one occasion I notified the capitol DO lice and they ran the man out of the building That was about a week ago
 About two weeks ago I went to Pennsylvania to see my mother and before I went took all the documents to the sergeant-at-arms of the house for safekeeping and they are now in his safe
 Miss Dorworth is not very large, but she is very plucky She said after reciting her story that she wished she had not been so frightened and had tried to find out from the mas who offered to bribe her wrom he rep I resented. She doesn't believe Cox is his real name. How much the I stranger offered her Miss Dorworth steadfastly refused to tell. T can't do that" she insisted. q haven't even told Mir. DifeEdeTfer tha' T because I don't like to be mixed uI I in sensations. but I will say it wal l l very large and I feel sure I could have had almost any amount I had q asked for at the time"
 This affair will be investigated b, < the committee on expenditures in th' q war department when the matter o z the shoe contracts is reached whicl @ will be within a few days. k SPANISH CABINET CHANGES. MADRID. Spain, June 30.-Ministe