The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-12
STAKEHOLDER PAID !. THE MONEY, ESAYS |C. E. White Gave Lockwood First Payment of $500 DIEKELMAN TESTIFIES Shows Darrow Was Guiding Hand in Fragrant Corruption of Impor-
 tant Witness for McNa-
 mara Prosecution
DIEKELMAN TESTIFIES

Los Angeles, Cal. June 11.-"Captain" C. E. White, the man who held the stakes in the alleged bribery of George N. Lockwood, told the jury in the trial of Clarence s. Darrow late today how he had given the prospective McNamara juror the first payment of $500. just prior to the arrest of Bert H. Franklin. on No vember 2S, 1911. His evidence corrobor- ated the essential parts of Franklins tes- timony as to that event. White was under cross examination when adjourn ment was taken for the day.
 Diekelman Testifies
 F. A. Diekelman, now a San Francisco hotel clerk, and a former prospective wit ness at the McNamara trial. who was alleged to have been spirited away by agents of the McNamara defense. testified today.
 Diekelman's story on direct exarnina- tion tended to show that MT. Darrow had been the directing hand in what seemed to have been fragrant corruption of ar important witness for the McNamars prosecution.
 On cross examination the most impor' tant fact brought out was that the wit ness had not been subpoenaed by the prosecution when taken in charge by tho defense; that he was out of the jurisdic' ton of the California courts at the time and that in his affidavit to District At torney Fredericks prior 10 leaving Los Angeles Diekelman had not positively identified James B. McNamara as the J B. Bryce, who had registered in the Los Angeles hotel in which the witness was employed. Diekelman also said on cross examination that the money given him by Bert Hammerstrom was to be used, il he desired to return to Los Angeles from Chicago, whence Hammerstrom had per suaded him to go from Albuquerque, N M, and that in all he had received sloC for his car fare and 80 for his expenses for week in Chicago.
 Was Not Concealed
 The defense also drew from the witness the statement that he had not been concealed by McNamara agents in Chicago. He said he had been taken openly by Hammerstrom to the office Of former MayOr huWdTu IT. Duhh' WHc, he said, assured him that Hammer strom was brother-in-law of Clar- ence S. Darrow After his first meet ing with Edward N Nockels. the Chi cago leader, whom he said he was told by Hammerstrom would take charge" of him while in that city, the witness said that he did not hold any other conversation with NocKefs.
 The injection of Nockels' name ir the case for the time attracted con- siderable attention, owing to the fact that he had visited Los Angeles short ly before the McNamara brothers con fessed as the supposed personal rep resentative of Samuel Gompers. presi- dent of the American Federation of Labor.
 Diekelman was the most important wit ness yet placed on the stand by the pros- ecution with the intent of showing that the McNamara defense had sought to corrupt witnesses as well as jurors. Dick elman testified at length concerning ef- forts made by agents of the McNamara defense to persuade him to desert the prosecution and of numerous offers of of- ficial betterment made to gain his con- sent