Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-29

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Honduras with w. w. Risinger by en-
dorsing a note for $4,000.
Risinger is part owner of the stock
of the Old Plymouth Coal company
He admitted having endorsed a note
for Risinger, but AYERS it was for the
sole accommodation and benefit of
Risinger, and Risinger later sent him
certificates of stock in a gold mining
enterprise as collateral security for
this endorsement 1t was admitted
that the Old Plymouth Coal company
was litigant in the judges court, but
the note transaction had no relevancy
to the judges judicial action, and that
in the court decision he acted solely
upon his judgment of the merits Of the
law suit presented. If the note was
presented to John Lenahan, one of the
attorneys in the case, for discount, 1t
was done without Judge Archbald's
consent, the answer said.
CONSENT NOT GIVEN.
1 AS to the $500 Jones note which it
was charged was presented to Christie
E
count for Judge Archibald, while one of
the Marian Coal company cases was
pending in his court, Judge Archibald
answered that he never consented that
the note should be presented to either
of the Bolands, with request on his
part for discount. and that if such a
thing was done, it was entirely with
out his knowledge.
IS to the charge that the same
note, fade to John Henry Jones,
was presented for discount to Charles
H. VonStorch, president of a bank in
Scranton and a lawyer, Judge Arch
bald answered that he endorsed the note
entirely for the accommodation of
Jones and had no intention of improp-
erly using his influence as a judge to
induct VanStorch to discount it.
The charge that Judge Archibald had
received large gifts of money from
Henry w. Cannon, a cousin of his
wifes and a director in the Great
Northern railway and other corpora
tons, was denied though it was ad-
mitted that the judge made a trip to
Italy at Cannon's expense. The judge
; averred he had no information that
any corporation in which Cannon was
interested might come before his court
1925 PURSE ACCEPTED.
The allegation that while a district
? judge in Scranton he accepted a purse
Of 1925 made up by lawyers who prac
ticed before the bar of his court
: Judge Archibald admitted. but declared
he had no knowledge that such a fund
was being made up and that his first
: knowledge of it was when it was pre-
sented to him in a sealed envelope or
the deck of the steamer on which he
was sailing for Europe with the request
that the envelope be opened after the
ship had left port
The gift could not have been re
fused without impugning the motives
!, of the givers,' said the judge in his
answer
The charge that Judge Archibald ap
! pointed J. B. Woodward a jury com
missioner in Scranton while WOODWARD
was an attorney for the Lehigh VALLEY
railroad. was met with the reply tina
, Judge Archibald did not know of Wood
wards connection with the railroad un
I'll several years after he had been ap
pointed. He appointed Woodward, i
was said. because the custom had beer
} TO select a democrat and the judg,
!, knew Woodward to be of that party anC
= had known him intimately and favor
= ably" for years.
; Judge Archibald replied to the charg,
Il that he had obtained credit from per
r sons having suits pending before him
e that it was too vague 10 admit Of an
D swer, as II did not make any specif,
7 allegations nor point out times o
! places at which it was alleged he al
4 tempted to obtain such credit. He de
! MED that at any time or place h,
sought wrongfully or other wise to oh
tain credit from or through any pei
sons interested in any court in whicl
: he presided or was a member.
q ARCHIBALD PRESENT.
: Archibald and his attorneys too
: places at the counsel table a few mir
n utes after the senate convened as
court OF impeachment Worthingtor