The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-01
HARTMAN
 IS ACCUSED
BERT FRANKLIN SAYS HE FUR WISHED DARRoW WITH THE
 MONEY FOR BRIBERY.
Also Says Darrow Insisted that He Tell What He Knew About liar. riman's Connection With the
 Jury Bribing.

Hartman, late candidate for mayor of Los Angeles on the Socialist ticket, | today at the trial of Clarence S. Oar llow for alleged jury brihing, heard himself accused of being the man who provided Darrow with the alleged bribe money.
 Later in the day he heard the same witness, Bert H. Franklin, testify but for the state, quote Darrow as say ing to him.
 If you mention my name. want you also to mention what you know about Job Hartman
 Sensations were crowded thick into today's sessions culminating in the be- ginning of 9 rapid-fire cross exam ination of the principal witness by Chief Counsel Rogers, for the de- fense.
 Franklin's testimony, in direct ex- animation, was at times dramatic in the extreme, the witness departing from his apparent willingness to tell all he knew, to a seeming loathness to give evidence concerning close friends. Twice he appealed to the court, once when he was asked to name a man who was said to have offered a bribe to a venireman, with whom he was negotiating, and again when Assist ant District Attorney Ford asked him to give the names of three men whom he had approached with offers of bribes.
 For the first time since the arrest of Franklin, and the indictment of himself and Darrow, the names of yAt. wood and Bain, alleged to have been sought to be bribed, were injected into the case,
 Franklin said he had entered into negotiations with A. K Kruger, and he had been turned down." by three others, Guy Yonkin John S. Under wood and Frank Smith. The witness exhibited much emotion when he re- lated his conversation with Kruger in which he said Kruger had told him that another man had offered him $4,000 for his vote as a McNamara juror
 Kruger, he said, wanted to know if they were both working for the same side. He named Los Angeles law yer. heretofore not mentioned in con- nection with the McNamara case, which drew an indignant protest from Attorney Rogers
 Franklin testified he had told DaT row after his arrest for attempting to bribe Lockwood that had Darrow not been present when he was arrest ed, he had intended to turn Lockwood over to the police for accepting bribe
  when I found Lockwood had turned traitor to me-"
 He said that when he saw detec- tives near the scene Of the meeting, with Lockwood, he knew he had been betrayed Darrow's presence at the place of Franklin's arrest, the latter explained by saying he had been in formed that Le Compte Davis, one of the associate counsel for the McNa- mara defense, had telephoned to Oar row telling him that Franklin was about 10 get into trouble Darrow. he said, had gone there to warn him After his arrest, Franklin testified Darrow had assured him that his fam fly would be looked after. Franklin related numerous conversations with Darrow in which the formers course was discussed. He did not fear con- viction, for tho attempt to bribe Lock- wood, he said, but Le Compte Davis had been conducting negotiations with the district attorney with a view of getting the latter to accept a plea of guilty on the part of Franklin In the event of such plea. and the i'm position of a fine of $5000, as antici- t-TI ness said he would pay the fine and in addition give him $3,000; the $9,- 000," said Franklin, for the protec- ton of my family until could re- build my reputation in the commu- nity"
 T told MT. Darrow," continued Franklin, that if the district attor- ney accepted my plea of guilty and dismissed the other counts, and if he would care for my family as prom ised, would accept the proposition" On another occasion, the witness said. he had been informed by Davis that the latter had serious doubts of the acceptance of the district attor- ney of plea of guilty. I asked him what would be the best procedure 1 in that event, and he told me The was not ready to concede his defeat along that line said Franklin. A plea of guilty and request for pro- bation also was discussed. Tn that case. the witness said, Davis agreed to give him $5,O00, the amount of the proposed fine and $3,000 in addition.
 At later date a plan was suggest ed by Davis, said the witness, of inventing a story of a Franklin Darrow go-between in order to save 1 the latter but Franklin told them, he said. that Assistant District Attorney Ford would never believe his story It was at this point that Darrow