The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-05
GOMPERS NAME
 IN TESTIMONY
LABOR LEADER FIGURES IN Ev- lDENcE GIVEN IN TRIAL OF
 ATTORNEY DARRoW.
Prosecution Says Federation's Fund Will be Traced to that
 Organization.

Los Angeles, June 4.-That it would traced to the McNamara defense fund of the American Federation of Labor the money alleged to have been used l by Bert IT. Franklin to bribe jurors in the McNamara trial, was the as- sertion made today by the prosecu- tion in the trial of Attorney Clarence s. Darrow, accused of bribing Juror George N. Lockwood.
 To substantiate this assertion the prosecution placed on the witness stand H. H. Flather, cashier of na- tional bank of Washington, D. c. MT. Flather was called to the stand after the cross examination of Bert II, Franklin, which had assumed sensa- tional aspects, had been discontinued, temporarily until morning at the re- quest of the defense.
 The name of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation
  ord several times. Franklin testified that Darrow once told him the money for the alleged bribery of Lockwood came direct from Mir. Gompers.
 District Attorney Fredericks said that no effort would be made to show any complicity of MT Gompers in the alleged. bribery, but that the state purpused to prove that the s4,000 had been drawn from the MoNamara de- fense fund of the American Federa- tion of Labor, and had been sent to MT. Darrow. He made the same statement in refernece ct Joh Har- riman-that no effort would be made to duplicate him.
 Mir Flather, on the stand, was ask ed if he knew Samuel Gom2ers. He did not know him personally, he said.
 Asked if he were acquainted with Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, he said he knew him very we'll MT: Morrison had about five accounts at his bank, he testified, one of which was known as the Frank Morrison Special No. 5 account" This was the McNamara defense fund, the wit ness said.
 The defense objected to every ques- tion on the ground that it was hear say evidence. Numerous objections of this nature were sustained by Judge Hutton before a document, de- scribed as the original sheet of the special No. 5 account" from the books of the bank was offered in ev- idence by the prosecution. The pros- ecution had not succeeded in having the bank ledger page admitted in ev- idence when adjournment was taken until tomorrow.
 In the cross examination of Frank lin today Attorney Rogers place1 great stress on the conversation al leged to have taken place between Franklin and two men, Watts and Stinemann.
 "Did you say to Mir Stinemann," asked Rogers words to this effect: If Darrow will give up certain ev- idence that he has against Gompers, he will be released, but Gompers is the man they want because he is the head of the union, and Burns wants to break that up. and Burns will get Gompers before they get through and didn't Mir. Stinemann ask you: Why do they wants to get Darrow?' and didn't you say: Oh, he has been defending the unions, and is a prom nent man on their side. Didn't Stine- mann ask you where you got the money for Lockwood and didn't you say Outside parties furnished it.; that Darrow never gave you any money to fix jurors, and didn't you say then, after you had talked for some length: For Gods sake don't repeat this conversation?
 q did not, or anything like it. re- piled Franklin.
 What did you tell him?" was ask ed.
 fI told him." said the witness" ''that Mir Davis had told me he prob ably could get me off with two years; that 1 went home to Mrs. Franklin and told her that if I got off with two years, and served my time, which 1 thought it was my duty to do, that she would be taken care of by MT. Darrow, and her remarks to me at that time were what caused me to change She said Bert, 1 admire the stand you are taking, and I agree with you on what you have said, but if you bring one dollar of dishonest money into my house, I will leave you in "A hours,' and then is when quit"
 Dr. Livingston. who has been con-