The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-26
Judge Arnold of Knickerbocker
Press and Friend of Sulzer
Also Names Tammany Can
didate for Mayor
DENOUNCES GLYNN AS
SECOND AARON BURR
Whitman Attention is Called
to Alleged Fact That Votes
to lmpeach Sulzer Were
Cast Under Orders from
Murphy

NEW YORK. August 25.--When the
assembly Judiciary committee. after
getting ex-Judge Lynn j. Arnold to the
city hall today on Il subpoena. de-
clined TO question him as to charges
that assemb1ymen were bribed to vote
for the Suizer Impeachment Mr.
Arnold said he was going to the dis
trict attorneys office to ask for the
indictment of Charles +. Murphy, on
the ground that Governor Sulzer was
;mpeached by his ordeKs.
The afternoon passed without Judge
Arnold calling at the office of the dis
trict attorney. Possibly IL was be
cause MIR. Whitman won't be there
until tomorrow. Mr. Arnold will not
return to Albany until tomorrow night,
In a. manifesto which Mr.. Arnold
handed To Chairman Mark Goldberg,
of the Judiciary committee, after
chance To read 1t had been denied him.
he names a considerable part Of the
conspiracy charges with which his
newspaper the knickerhocker Press.
has heen fighting Governor sulzer =
battle for two weeks past. He de-
manded that the committee continue
It's investigation of charges involving
"the honor. integrity and good iuten-
tions" of certain assNmblym*n soma
tors. State officials. and Mr.. Murphy,
Names Witnesses Wanted.
He said that the following men
should be suhpoenaed as witnesses:
Charles f. Murphy, Edward r.. Me
CaH Norman r. Mack. William H
Fitzpatrick. of Buffalo; Martin Il.
tslynn, Patrick T.. McCahe, clerk of the
senate: John II. Mefooey. the Brook
lyu leader: Justice Victor J. Downing.
Wagner. senator
James J. F-rawley. James A. Foley
Speaker Alfred r.. Smith, Majority
Leader Aaron !. Levy, Attorney ten
eral Carmodv. and all the officials and
iavmen whose names are being men
toned daily in the public press or the
United States. to the end that all OF
these gentlemen may he able to tell
the truth concerning the CHARGES being
made against them"
The committees duty, SO Judge
Arnold informed Al, is To investigate
the part which Martin II, Glynn took
In the inception and execution Of the
conspiracy, which was Matched In May
al DeitnoniCe's, in the suite or MT
Murphy To grab complete control OF
Inc government of the State of New
York. To Dust its constitutional gov"
ernor. and to place in the executive
chair the lieutenant governor.
Mr.. Arnold further remarked that
"if the facts charged are proven MT.
Glvnn becomes q s~Cend Aaron hnrr
A Luminous Statement
To those who have been following
the pro-Sulzer publicity campaign
Judge Arnolds statement was lumin-
ous. because IL contained the nfst
revelation Of lust what sort of legal
attack on Mr. Murphy the Suffer party
profeas to contemplate Mr. Arnold
Aid NOT mention bribery accusations.
hut he did hammer at his theory that
frupeachment was ordered ny HF.
Murphy. and he quoted section lS2}
~ the State penal law.
"A person who wufully compels. or
attempts to compel. either OF the
houses composing the legislature OF
this state to pass. amend. or reject
arv hi mr. resolution. is punishable
b.. imprisonment in a State prison. not
,eas than five years. nor moro IMAM
zen wears or by a fine OF not less imam
ssnN nor more than $4,000, or by
both"
snnp,enenting his formal state
nent addressed TO the judiciary COM
mtttee, Judge Arnold said in an IN
terview
'~rhe criminal conspiracy reaches
up pretty far. There Is also orihery
ANA another ofense. which / think
7 can't tell YOU about II now. hut II
c.as n plot and n frame-up to get a
certain man out of the way DIS
trirt Attorney whitman knows some
thing of II. saw him last week.
Since then ten men have come into
nv Office with statements. one man.
q former state official. has furnished
me with evidence that Will warrant
his own indictment but he says ne
would rather go 10 prison thaf' sf'.
this rotten conspiracy go through
Ordered by Murphy
ssThc Knickerhocker Press emphat-
irallv calls the attention OF District
ATTORNEY C. s. Whitman, OF the coun-
~ Of New York. to the fact thar the
majority Of the assembly passed the
resolution of impeachment pursuant
to the orders OF Charles r. Murphy
THE acts OF Charles +. Murphy in the
premises make him guilty Of a fell
INV under the provisions Of the sec
zion quoted. Charles f. Murphy IN
formtd William Sulzer long before
thc Impeachment resolution was
nassed. that If Sulzer az governor OF
the State of New York. did not do his
bidding. he would Gust him from Of
Ace. and Install In his place the lieu
tenant governor. Martin n Glynn.
The facts are clear. the law applica-
\ bic thereto Is undisputed,
When ten Of the fourteen members
!. of the judiciary committee met in the
CITY hall today, the sad news was
broken that the sergeant-at- arms o.
the assembly had been unable to find
Jamcs c. Garrison. who spread the
bribery stories in Albany The sub
poena server sent, word that he had
yainly looked all over, and that Gar
rison war reported to have left the
city on Friday
This hearing wa4 then adjourned
X Indse Arnold then handed out hiz
VI SkaN0rnoiit % the reporters.