The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-30
ARCHIBALD DENIES
USING OFFICE FOR
PERSONAL PROFIT
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all his acts were without promise or ex-
ptctation of compensation of any kind.
In reply to the charge that he and his
associates secured from the Lehigh Valley
railr Dad a lease on ccal dump packer
No. 8, owned by the city of Philadelphia
as trustee for the heirs of the late
stephen Girard, reply was made that the
transaction did. not involve unlawful OF
corrupt use of his office. Some details
of this article were disputed.
To the charge that Judge Archibald
permitted Helm Bruce attorney for the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. to make
reply after a case had been closed in
court, the judge averred that permission
for such supplementary reply was not,
so far as he knew, given in secret from
the interstate commerce commission.
Judge Archibald denied that per-
mission for the supplementary answer
was given wrongfully or unlawfully, but
declared it had been done in fairness and
IN the interests of justice.
The Judge denied that he used his Of
fee wrongfully to aid Frederick Warner
in securing from the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad lease of the LincolA
culm dump or that he accepted from
Warnke wrongfully a promissory note
for $500. Judge Archibald does say, how
ever. that he and John Henry Jones re-
ceived from the Premier Coal company a
note for 500 Endorsed by WarnlSe. This
the judge AYERS was for services he and
Jones had performed by bringing about
the sale of the old gravity fill culm bank
by the Laeoe & Shiffer Coal company 10
the Premier Coal company, In which
Warnke had an interest
Charge Declared Vague
The charge that the judge used his Of
fee corruptly or improperly to bring
about the sale of the Everhardt coal
lands to the Lehigh Valley railroad or
the Lehigh Valley Coal company, was
claimed TO be vague and its annullment
was asked
Judge Archibald denied that any time ne
had entered a scheme to buy stocks of a
gold mining scheme in Honduras with w.
w. Rsinser by indorsing a note for $3.50.
Rissinger is part owner of the stock of
the old Plymouth Coal company. He ad-
mitted having Endorsed note for Ris-
singer but AYERS 1t was for the sole ac-
commodation and benefit of Rissnger and
Rissinger later sent him certificates of
stock in a gold mining enterprise as col
lateral security for his Endorsement 1t
was admitted that the old Plymouth Coal
company was a ltigant In the judges
ocurt. 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 T. Lenahan. one
of the attorneys in the case. for discount,
Il was done without Judge Archbald's
consent, the answer said.
AS to the $500 Jones note, which 1t was
charged was presented to Christopher @.
Bolsnd with request for discount 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
mat If such a thing were done. It was
entirely without his knowledge.
AS to the charge that $500 note of his
own. made to John Henry Jones. was pre-
scented for discount to Charles II, Won
Storch, president of bank In Scranton.
and a lawyer. Judge Archibald answered
that he made the note entirely for the ac-
cen mediation of Jones and had no inten-
ton of improperly using his influence as
a judge to induce Won storch TO dis
count 1t.
The charge that Judge Archibald had
received large gifts of money from Henry
w. Cannon. cousin OF his wife's, and
director in the Great Northern railway