The Prescott daily news., 1913-10-09
SARECKY FACES
 FORGERY CHARGE SECRETARY MAY BE PROSE. CUTED FOR SIGNING sULzER's
 NAME TO CHECKS. HIS TESTIMONY ATTACKED Witness Denies Conversation With Banker on Authority to Indorse
 Governors Checks-Is Stronq
 Witness for Defense.
HIS TESTIMONY ATTACKED

Albany, N. Y, Oct. 9.-Louis A. Sa. rocky, Gov. Sulzer's campaign secre. tary, still occupies the witness stand for further cross-eXamination at the impeachment trial of the governor.
 counsel for the board of managers intimated this morning that they might take some action against Sa- rocky for his technical forgery of the governors name to certian checks and letters. But Sulzer never has ob- Jected to Sarecky signing checks on the account and as he, if anybody, was the loser by Sarecky's transac- uons, friends of the former secretary made light of the yelled threat of counsel for the board. They declared that any action against Sarecky would have to originate with Sulzer.
 It was the plan of the attorneys for the board to cross-examine Sarecky further regarding this, however, in an effort to discredit his testimony on other features of the case.
 When Sarecky took the stand he was first questioned by Attorney Stanchfield concerning the various places in New York and Brooklyn where he has lived snce he became a voter
 Then Stanchfield asked him wheth- CT he had conversation with Webb Floyd, president of the Mutual Ali ance Trust company, concerning his obtaining authority from Gov Sulzer to indorse his name upon the gov ernor's checks, to which the witness replied negatively.
 Attorney Stanchfield called upon MT Floyd, who was in the courtroom, to stand up.
 Do you know who this man is?"
 ''I think it is the president of the Mutual Alliance Trust company"
 "Now are you sure you did not have this conversation"
 'I am positive l do not remember having such a conversation with Mr Floyd"
 Sarecky said that he was responsi- ble for the failure to report the omit ted campaign contributions. and he further said that he had initiated the governors signature to deceive a bank. He is 27 years old, a Russian and has never been naturalized.
 Sarecky spoke in a high piping voice and his answers came, almost uniformly, without hesitation.
 He received either from Tammany Hall or from the secretary of state began Sarecky, "a blank form in which a statement was to be made out of receipts and expenditures of campaign funds.
 "The question came up as to wheth- CT the committee of the governors friends, of which I was treasurer, had the right to file statement. 1nas- much as it he'd neglected. or some one had neglected, on behalf of the committee to file with the secretary of state a notice to the effect that such a committee had been formed. So someone suggested that I take the matter up with Mir. Sulzer. I went into his room and told him of the Quandary we were in, and he said: Well. make up the statement, any way; 1t does not matter very much who signs it as long as We comply with the spirit of the law So went outside and then worked on the state ment for about a day and half, brought 1t in to Mir. Sulzer and he signed It."
 Says Morgan Helped Him.
 "Who, If anyone. assisted you in preparing it?" asked Attorney Hin- man.
 ''I think MT. Morgan was the one who helped me get it up. He brought in an adding machine from his office and he and worked on it and finally got 1t up"
 The witness referred to Matthew T. Horgan. who, he said, formerly had been employed in the governors New York office and who later became secretary of the Frawley investigat- ing committee, which unearthed much of the preliminary evidence on which the Impeachment articles were based.
 Did William Sulzer have anything whatever to do in the work of pre- paring that statemept?"