The Washington herald., 1913-08-30
denial IS MADE
BY M'DERMOTI
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Congressional frank; that he had opposed
Representative Frank Buchanan OF Chi
cago, and tried to undermine the latters S
political support; that he had ever been
intimate with Mulhall, or that he had
reported to him.
McDermott declared emphatically that
! the Mulhall charges were a "frame-up.'
and that McMIchael had been responsible
for them through introducing Mulhall 10
McDermott.
Although he was very nervous when
! he first took the stand and inclined to
be explosive, Mr.. McDermott soon quiet
| ed down.
When ] first saw the story printed, I
knew II was an absolutely cold-blooded
/ 'frame-up' on me-" he said. Il felt just
Ike a fellow who had been hit on the
head with a club by a fellow who ought
to be his friend. McMichael called my
attention to the article that Sunday. as
I returned from church with my family.
He said, That finishes me-. l said, Well,
! there you are; you always wanted him:
you can have him now. You see what
he had done to you. Lord only knows
what he will do to me. He may put me
out of business "
Tell of $3.50 Check.
The defense placed two witnesses on
| the stand to uphold their contention that
Mulhall left Chicago with the $3.50 Nc
| COrmick check in mis- pocket, telling Nc
Dermott that il must have been lost.
! Walter Chapin, auditor Of the Hotel
. sherman. where Mulhall stopped in the
spring of 1912 while working for Nc
| DeTmOtt in the latters primary cam
paign. said that Mulhall had not been
at the hotel under his own name after
April S, although the colonel swore that
he was there until April 16 Lawrence
+. Estes, assistant cashier of the Mer-
chants Loan and Trust Company, of
Chicago, on which the Mccormick check
was drawn. testified that the check was
back in his bank for payment by April
| Is, although Mulhall swore that he did
| not cash ii in Baltimore until April IS.
McDermott testified that just before
leaving Chicago on the Sth Mulhall had
told him to inquire for the Mccormick
check at the Hotel Sherman, and, IL II
turned up there, TO sign his CMulhalrs)
name to it and cash It. Acting on tbs,
McDermott testified, when the check
didn't show up, he got a duplicate of
1t from Mr.. Mccormick, signed Mulhalrs
name to II, and cashed II, payment hav-
ing been stopped in the meantime on the
original Payment was stopped April s.
II know now" said McDermott. that
Mulhall had the check all the time, and
just sstlu " llLlStlls NdlIlt Oul mere
for money, and this is the biggest thing
that has come my way; so I'll just cop
il, and-On my way
When I saw what had been done,
asked Mr.. Estes how to get out Of 1t.
He said he would make it good and I
could pay him. Since then I've made
good Mulhalrs peculation. I said TO
McMichael when 1 got back to Wash
ington, That's fine fellow you staked
me to-"
McDermott admitted that when the
Mulhall charges first were printed he
still owed Estes $50 Of the amount due
on the check. and had paid II at once
in order to have himself clear, believing
the Mulhal charges to be q "frame-up."
The Lonn from Harvey.
Telling of the $500 loan from Harvey,
he said he had come on to Washington
in an effort to borrow the money from
Horning. but that. as he already owed
Horning s1,OoO, the latter would not lend
him more. He said he stepped into Har-
vey's buffet. and. in answer to an in
quiry, told Harvey that he was badly in
need Of cash to carry on his campaign:
that his mother had mortgaged her
property. and his aunt had loaned about
all she had. and that he needed 500
Harvey said, IF I had 500 I'd loan
it to you said. Well, guess Pm in
a hole. all right
Well he said, I may be able to
negotiate a loan for you If you do,
said. 1t will save my life.
"A couple OF hours later he called
me up and said he had managed to
negotiate the loan. went down and
signed the ninety-day note. / thought
he had merely negotiated the loan
through his bank. Nothing was said
about the money coming from the Liquor
Dealers Association. My views in op-
position to the Jones-Works bill in the
form in which II originally was intro
duced were too well known to connect
up the loan with my vote always
was opposed to prohibition, and that's
what the first Jones-Works bill meant"
McDermott denied that he had any
knowledge Of the contents Of the note
OF introduction written by Mulhall to
General Manager Bird. of the n. A.
NJ, for him. He said matters were pretty
blue in the aeroplane venture and Nc
Michael suggested that he knew "an old
guy who could help them out. He
brought Mulhall in for the first time
then. according to McDermott. The let
ter was written later and delivered to
him (McDermotO sealed. He asked Nc
Michael what was in II and the latter
told him, he said, that II was only a
friendly letter of introduction. He saw
Bird and made no progress with him
and went on my way"