The Washington herald., 1911-04-07

been guilty Of an unmitgated lie. suIfy
made no move There were present only
the official stenographer, Sully's coun-
| sel and Sully, Hammond. and Ham
mond's counsel, Philip Walker, and sew
eral newspaper reporters
Leading up to the elimination Of the
session, Hammond had this to say:
"On one occasion. Henry S. Jackson,
of Atlanta, Ga, told me it would be i'm
possible to induce the Southern people
to put money into any proposition in
which Mr.. Sully was in any way finan-
| cially responsible
Sully Interested Him.
This statement came in Mr.. Hammond's S
explanation that Sully had first interested
him in plan for the general warehousing
of cotton throughout the State. Later.
he said, he and Sully had gotten together
on proposition to put on the market the
! new Doremus gin, claimed to be great
improvement on the Whitney gin. Mr..
Hammond said Mr.. Sully was anxious to
sell stock in the General Cotton Securi-
ties Company before it had been demon
strated that the machine was a practical
working certainty in the field, and that
to this he. Hammond. objected, not al
lowing it to be done.
Asked by Mr.. Cuttings about the money
contributed to the company, the mining
engineer replied:
Il put 100000 into it. and. in addition,
about $4,000 to finance Mr.. Sully per-
sonally."
| The witness continued that finally he
and some of his associates in the COM
pany had been obliged to cali Sully.
When did you cali him?" asked At
torney Cuttings.
1T was about the time we began to
suspect his honesty of purpose" replied
Hammond. This was on the 9Th of
| September last when Mr.. Sully tele-
graphed me he had sold the foreign rights
(of the gin) and the money had been
paid. and about three weeks after
received a letter from him which showed
that his first telegram was an unmiti-
gated lie. saying he had not sold, that he
| had Cancelled the contract under some
excuse. and then I began TO suspect that
Mr.. Sully was indeavoring to keep up
my interest in the gin in order to get
money for his personal use. I will show
you that later. too. We have other wit
nesses To confirm that that it was a lie.
and Mr.. Sully knew it was a lie at the
time he said it,
Copy of a Telegram.
Hammond then submitted a copy OF a
telegram which he said he had received
from Sully. 1t read:
John Hays Hammond. Gloucester,
Mass--Have been successful in selling
foreign rights of gin. Contract signed
and money paid. Am now negotiating
with the same people for American
ha in No fnr fer
days. except tonight, as l leave to-mor-
row for the West"
The witness then declared that Sully,
without the knowledge of his associates
| in the company. had made a contract
with the Thomas Fordyce Company, of
| st. Louis, regarding the gin. This con-
! tract, he said, related TO the building of
several gins.
TT is a fact Hammond added. that
l can state that Mr.. Sully did this alb
solutely Sureptitously and underhand-
edIy. I am speaking OF his contract not
only for the building of the gins. but also
a contract he made with the Fordyce
people for the equivalent OF their plant
at price that the Fordyces themselves
told me afterward was simply ridicu-
lous. They wouldn't justify such price.
Mr.. Samuel Fordyce told me he could
not justify such a figure
After the adjournment of the taking
of testimony for the day, with the IN
derstanding that Hammond is to con-
tinue his story of Sullys operations in
the company for which Hammond put up
the money. the mining engineer was
asked what he meant by having been
obliged to finance Sully personally to
the extent of $1,000
A Simple Matter.
why, that's simple enough" he
laughed. "Sully came to me from time
to time with pitiful stories about the
privations of himself and those dependent
on him, and asked me for money to re-
| lieve his sufferingS. l advanced him out
of my own pocket a total amount of
| S1SOOo.
What came out to-day is only the be
! ginning of the story of this mans busi-
ness methods, if they can be so described.
| There's more to follow