The Sentinel=record., 1911-08-03
TELLS ABOUT CONFESSION
CHARLES A. WHITE REPEATS STORY OF BRIBERY IN ELEc-
 TON OF SEN. LORIMER.
Says He Did Not Ask Chicago Tri- bune S5o,0oo for His Confession and Did Not Regard Offer in
 Nature of Sale.

Washington, D. C., Aug. 2.-Chas. "A White, the Illinois legislator, who claims he was brihed to vote for iorimer for senator, completed his three days story on direct examila- ton before the senate Lorimer com mittee today. He has yet to measure wits with counsel for Lorimer in the 7cross examination which promises to be as strict as the direct one,
 Most of the day was devoted to tellng how he spent the $1,0O0 'Lorimer money" and the s900 jack pot money,' which White asserts he received and in relating his attempts < to have his so-called confession print ed. At the end of the day the manu- script was put in evidence.
 The story told at the first Lorimer Inquiry was varied by repeated fusi- lades of questions from the commit tee as to Whites alleged public spir- ited motive in accepting the brlbes and then exposing them. White stuck to his testimony that he was work ing all the time for the good of the public. It was also varied by dif- { ferences with the testimony of James Keeley, general manager and editor of the Chicago Tribune, as to the price, which White asked for his R"confession manuscript" White tes- tifying today that he only asked s3,- 300 and not s50,000. He told how E he objected to the contract because it said he offered to sell' his story to the Tribune. White said he did not offer to sell 1t, but he could nor tell Senator Jones what words he would have used to describe what he had done.
 The witness said he was told that these words made no difference any way. He said he went to the Tri- bune with his manuscript because Ed win R. Wright, president of the H. lipois State Federation of Labor, suggested he see, Editor Mccormick < of that paper.
 White compiained that he did not 4 have counsel when he made the con- s tract and that ne was placed in GUS tody the very night he signed it and kept in custody for nearly eight months. When he protested agains' B it, White said. the officers told him they had papers that might surprise him. He testified that he heard States Attorney Wayman of Cook county tell the officers to keep hlm on trips to Wisconsin, Minnesota and < Michigan, so as to keep him I.0m appearing before the Sangamon County grand jury.
 At times. White gE1d, four officers xe ere with him.
 In telling of visits to the homes oi other members of the legislature tc get evidence to support his mars script then unpublished. willie sSts that Detective Turner, who went witt him for the Chicago Tribune, as ns Understood, told Representative Llnt that he represented the governor White testified of telling both LnL and Representative Clark, respectiv' ely in Turner's presence, that the, knew better when they denied know ledge of corruption in the legisla F ture.
 ~Both Link and Clark are dead, ar' 4 they not?~ inquired Senator John ston of Alabama.
 q have been told so," replied MT
 White.
 E White said he was writing his ex '= posture when he wrote to Browne fo a loan of money in 1909. In one let
 ter he told Browne be owed an eigh Ny dollar tailor bill. White acknow x ledged he did not owe it.
 T did 1t to get reply sai
 White.
 He testified that about October Il
 1909, he wrote to Browne askin
 That Lorimer get him place in rh 8 ecret service. White said he tol Browne in this letter he did not con
 :der he got as much of the jackpc
 Ind Lorir\er money as the other fel
 DIV did. Attorney Hancey declare
 te had never seen such letter. s''s IF. Did you have in mind that 70
 Rere placing on paper confesslo
 1hat might send you to prison?s asl
 "a Chairman Dillingham;.