The Detroit times., 1912-09-24
bCHRE|TER GIVES
| EXHIBITION OF MAN
| WITHOUT MEMORY
Really Can Recall Very Little of
First Two Statements
.ff, Following Arrest
EXPLAINS HE WAS
UNDER HEAVY STRAIN
Where Statements and Testi-
mony Fail to Agree, Eddie"
Repudiates Former

r. r. Schreiter. Jr., gave a re-
markable exhibition of a man who
had lost his memory. before crowd
ed court room. Monday morning.
when the police court examination
pf the IT aldermen and Schreiter.
bccused of conspiracy, was resumed
before Justice Jeffries. Schreiter
did not repudiate the first and Sec
pnd statements he made on July 26,
Following his arrest. He simply did
mot remember having made the state
ments, that Is he could not recall
details, he insisted He would not
deny that he had made certain state
ments credited to him and he would
not assert that he made them. But
he testified that II he did make them
they were false.
The first statement, made by
|Schreiter In the Ford building, and
printed in The Times, Friday, was
first introduced. and Schreiter was
cross-examinedy on that statement.
statement he was under p strain and
excited and he could not recall Just
what he had said. The second state
ment. made later In the day in the
prosecutors Office. was later pro-
duced. and In this Schreiter made
statements which were directly op-
posite to those in the former state
ment. He could not remember the
details OF the second statement,
either, and when pinned down on
points where the second statement
confiicted with testimony he gave on
the witness stand he owned up that
IL he had made such statements in
the prosecutors Office they were
| false.
BY combining his statements OF
July 26 and his subsequent testimony
on the witness stand, comparing them
and holding them up for him to desig-
nate which were the true and which
were the false, Attorney Mcnamara.
OF counsel for the defense, succeeded
In getting Schreiter to make emphatic
statements concerning the details OF
his transactions with Detective Bren-
non. Previously. In his testimony,
gone to the Ford building to get $500
the witness stand, he said he did 60
to the Ford building for that pur-
pose,
How He "shIeIded" Aldermen.
When cross-examined on his first
statement. Schreiter said that ne
made Il In an endeavor to shield the
l.
torney then read his statements In
which he "squealed" on the aldermen
and asked him IL that was the method
he chose to shield" the aldermen.
Schreiter fell back on his favorite
expression: Il don't remember wheth-
er or not said that
Mcnamara read Schreiter's first
statement to the effect that Schreit-
er spoke to Harpfer about the Wa
bash deal and HARPER came back
with the statement: i am for it,"
did you really talk to Harpfer?'
"Yes."
"Then you put him down for $400?"
"But that was before | talked 10
him." replied Schreiter.
But you didn't go and tell Brennon
to erase his name after you talked
to Harpfer and found him for the
proposition?"
mo, but you won't find Harpfer's
name on the second list gave BreE.
non."
Schreiter's former testimony shows
that he testified to having put Harp
fer down for 500 on the second list,
which totaled up to $4,000.
"You didn't cancel the first list uu-
I'll after Brennon refused to pay yon
s6,soOT
That's right"
Says Schultz said "AIl Right"
when questioned about the actual
conversation he had with Aid. Schultz,
Schreiter let drop statement whicn
the court on previous occasion ruled
out. The statement pertained to what
the alderman, who is not accused OF
conspiracy, replied when Schreiter
testified that Schultz replied: All
right" and nodded his head.
The last page Of the original copy
of the first statement was torn on
and Judge Jeffries explained that he
himself tore II of because 1t contain
ed matter which the court did not
wish In the record.
After your first statement you mao
supper and then went to the prose
cutor's office?" continued Mcnamara
mo supper that day" said Schreit'
or, smiling.
'You had four or Ave hours to cool
your fevered brain"
''Yes, had some time TOT renee
tion."
You can recall your second state
ment more clearly. then?
81 wanted to squirm out OF IL. then,
replied Schreiter. II made my state
ments as strong as l could.
Evidently Schreiter did make mis-
statements "strong." for the 20 pages
. or more of typewriter statements
abound in epithets which SchreiteI
then applied TO Brennon. They
called one another liars" in what
thew said in the presence OF the pros
ecutor and his assistants. Schreiter's
statements were made without regard
IN the fact that he made statement
In tbe afternoon in which he incrim
mated himself and the aldermen
arennon several times said tina
scbreiter had his second wind" ant
reminded him Of his first statements
Schreiter replied that he didn't cars
anything about the first statement
He was insisting on his own limo
cence. swearing to heaven that M
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