The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-14
TWENTY SEVEN
SAW HIM I|PSY
Western Judge Charged With Being
Drunk In Saloons, Barber Shop
and Street
Cars.
ASLEEP ON THE BENCH
Personal Friends Never Saw Him In
toxicated, at Least They
Cannot Remem-
ber 1t.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
SEATTLE, Wash, July 13.-Denying
the allegation in the Judge C. H. Han
ford impeachment complaint that he
received excessive fees, James A.
Kerr receiver In the Alaska Packers
case. this afternoon concluded his tes-
timony before the congressional inves-
tigation.
The complaint charged that s140, 900
had been allowed to Kerr, as receiver,
and to E s. McCord, Kerr's partner,
who acted as attorney for the receiv-
er. Kerr testified that they received
only 100000 approximately between
them. but that other receivers appoint
ed In New York, New Jersey and
Alaska also acted in that case. He
contended that Judge Hanford did not
allow greater fees than were allowed
in the other states.
Kerr devoted three years, he said,
exclusively TO the receivership busi-
ness, giving up a lucrative practice,
which. he claimed. was more profit
able than the fees he received. He
claimed, that in view Of the fact that
about $6,000.00o was handled by him,
/ the fee allowed by Judge Hanford was
not exorbitant. McCord will be call
ed as q witness early next week.
i Following Kerr, Councilman Austin
{ B. Griffith. .gas eelled by the defense to
, controvert testimony given by Attor-
! ney l.. H. Mcmahon. OF Salem, Oregon.
Mcmahon had testified that Judge
/, Hanford slept for fifteen minutes on
the bench during the progress Of a
damage suit. Griffith who was on the
! other side OF the case, denied this
Judge Hanford, with the exception
of a few minutes on two or three days,
was not In the court room during the
proceedings this week. The probe In
to the charge Of drunkenness is prac-
tically concluded, although Attorney
John H. Perry, who filed separate
complaint in addition to Congressman
! Bergers impeachment charges, is yet
to be called. More than one hundred
witnesses were examined on this
phase Of the investigation, many OF
them being personal friends and at
torneys intimately acquainted with
Hanford, who testified they never saw
him drunk
But twenty-seven other witnesses
swore they saw Judge Hanford drunk
on street cars, In saloons, in barber
shop and on the streets. Five testified
that he appeared drunk on the bench.
( A score of witnesses testified that he
appeared drowsy.
During the week, the name Of Rich
ard A. Ballinger, exsecretary OF the
interior, was involved in the Hanford
probe in the testimony of Attorney
! Jerold L. Finch. The latter charged
Hanford with deliberately refusing to
investigate charges Of fraud in a
bankruptcy case when 1t became APP
parent that Ballinger was involved In
1T.
1 Former U. S. Senator Samuel H.
/. Piles, also became involved early in
e the week when he was gTilled about
& an interview he had with John II
Is Perry in an effort to have the latter
drop the Hanford impeachment case
l. With the end of the investigation
II into the charge of drunkenness, the
n end of the probe by the cong ressional
z. subcommittee in Seattle Is in sight
n Matters that will be taken up next
t. week will chiefly deal with receiver
IS ship and bankruptcy cases, most o.
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