The Prescott daily news., 1912-07-10
MRS. HENNiNG ADMITS THERE WAS NO CAUSE FOR HUSBANDS
 SUIT AGINST FUNK.
ACTION RESULT OF A PLOT
Asserts She Never Met General Man. ager of International Harvester Company, Who Was Defeated
 In Suit at Trial.

Wayman entered actively in the Funk Henning case with a statement that Mrs. Josephine Henning had declared as false the allegations made against Clarence s. Funk, general manager of the International Harvester Co.,, in the suit of her husband, John C.. Henning for $25,000 damages for alleged aliena tion of her affections.
 It Is declared that Mrs. Henning's confession has raised the suspicion that Funk was made the object of the suit in retaliation for the testimony which he gave against Senator Will liam Lor1mer regarding the raising of fund of $100,000 to elect Lorimer to the United States Senate.
 Mrs. Henning Is in Chicago" said Wayman "She has confessed that tha allegations against MT Funk were false. She has confessed that she never knew MT Funk"
 Perjury Warrant Issued.
 The suit was filed last October, seek. ing S25,000 damages against Funk, charging him specifically with associ- ating with Mrs. Henning on several oc- casiona At the trial a verdict favor able to Funk was quickly returned by the jury and perjury warrants were soon afterward obtained against Hen ming and Aileen Heppner, young woman who swore she had seen MT Funk and Mrs. Henning in hotel Her testimony was fatly contradicted by persons in whose company she said she was st the time.
 Tells of Details
 n Is declared that Mrs Henn1ng has told every detail of the plot why the suit was started the names of the conspirators, the names of the men who have furnished a small for tune to finance the sut and the efforts made to balk grand jury investiga- tion of the conspiracy. Among the people whom she named Is Aileen Heppner, the woman who induced Mrs Henning to go into the plot and who perjured herself in testifying that she had seen Funk in hotels with Mrs. Henning
 Funk testified before the Helm com mittee and afterward repeated it be- fore the United States Senate commit tee that Edward Hines. millionaire lumberman, solicited a contribution of $10,000 from the International liar vester Co.,, through Funk, to help make up the $100,000 which, Funk and Hines declared. he had put up to put Lorimer over" Hines denied he ever had such a conversation with Funk.
 Beginning at the time shortly after Funl1's testiomny, before the Helm senatorial committee. when it was freely predicted that the LorimerHines interests would make him pay dearly for his testimony, the woman told the whole story
 Rejected Offer.
 She told how she had rejected an offer to enter the conspiracy, how Aileen Heppner had taken her to Don ahoe's office and how she had been promised a life of luxury for lending her name to the suit
 q have always wanted the nice things of life, and when they came I couldn't refuse" she pleaded.
 Mrs. Henning told a dramatic story of her life of want and denial and of the torture that her unexpected wealth brought upon her She was furnished with money, S200 and $500 at time, and was later given from S2o0 to $500 a month
 She travelled through the country, stopping at fashionable resorts and watering places, always haunted by the thought of the part she had taken
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