New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
SAYS SHE SIGNED AT
LIQUOR MANS REQUEST
Maud Robinson, ACCuSer OF
0'Hara, Had Assurance It
Wouldn't Be Made Public.
BOTH DENY IMPROPERLY
Lieutenant Governor Asserts
He Never Visited Apartment
of Woman at Hotel-She
Says He Did.

Chicago, May l0.-Maud Robinson.
accuser. and Lieutenant Governor Bar
raft O'Hara, respondent, in accusations
Of immortality presented in the Illinois
Senate against the latter, to-day offered
before the Senate investigation com
mittee testimony which differed in one
detail but agreed in essential matters.
Both denied improper relations, and
differed in the single statement made
by Miss Robinson that on the night OF
January II O'Hara visited the suites
at the Hotel Sherman occupied by Miss
Robinson and another woman. Ac-
Cording to Miss Robinson, OHara
called at the apartment after he,
Thomas Vredenburgh, Harry Gibbons,
a Chicago court bailiff; Miss Robinson
and another woman had visited the
cafe of the Hotel Sherman and the
Lambs Cafe. across the street
Miss Robinson testified that after
eating the party adjourned to cafe.
where she said they met Harry Glib
bons, court baiif, and a friend of
O'Hara's, whom the latter says he tele-
eraphed TO meet him in Chicago. when
he found himself in the party on the
train. After a number of drinks, wit
ness declared that she. Mrs. Inbush
and Vrendenburgh went to the Hotel
Sherman. leaving Gibbons and O'Hara
talking on the Sidewalk in front of the
cafe.
Later in the evening she said the
Lieutenant Governor called at the
apartment. 1t was at this point that
Senator EttelsOn asked the direct
question as . her relations with
OHara.
Miss Robinson testified that she
signed the affidavit at the request Of
Samuel Davis. a liquor dealer of
Springfield, who assured her that it
would never be made public but would
be used only to coerce O'Hara INTO
steering his investigation away from
Davis.
She said that the paper was meant
as a club to be held over OHara. ac-
cOrding TO assurances given her. Later
Davis asked her to sign a second affi-
davit against OHara, but upon advice
of Fred Mortimer. a lawyer friend, cf
Springfield. she declined 20 do so.
why didn't he want you to sign
it?" inquired Senator Etteson.
Because he said that Davis might
not keep mis- promise TO keep the afi-
GaVit secret"
O'Hara stated. and in this testimony
he was supported by Frank J. Jacob
son. an advertising 7man, that after
leaving the Lambs Cafe, the second
one visited that evening, he met ia
cobson at the Press Club, took mid
night luncheon with the latter at a
short order restaurant and then went
home. accompanied by Jacobson I'm
this connection he offered to produce
as witnesses his mother and his father
He accounted in similar detail for
his public appearance On the next day,
January Is. at a luncheon. a banquet
ana at the theatre. He named nu-
meTOUs witnesses who would confirm
his testimony on these points. On the
remainder of the 18th he played poker
with members of the Press Club, nam
ing a number Of them. until o'clock
Sunday morning. in support Of this
story he offered 10 produce checks
was the morning of the 10Th. The
most Of the day he spent At his office
and the home of his parents He at
tended the Olympic Theatre late in the
performance and sat in a box alone.
His appearance at the theatre was ex-
planned by him rs follows:
Had Box at the Theatre.
The manager Of the theatre, a friend.
had given him box to attend the first
performance Of a play on the night in
evidence. Not desiring to sit through
a performance. he offered the box to
Vredenburgh. who accepted IT, II was
Vredenburgh who showed great cour-
tesy i'm securing a home for him at
Springfield and who introduced him TO
Miss Robinson on train coming from
Springfield 10 Chicago on January II.
OHara dropped into the play late be-
cause the manager Of the theatre de-
sired to obtain his opinion Of the pro-
ductiOn. Leaving the theatre. OHara
met Nredenburgh and the two women
and being urged took a sandwich"
with them at a cafe. He then returned
10 his home.