New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-23

possibility of money being needed there
also. That was on March 24 Kendall
said, and they agreed that Stlwell
should call him up the next day TO tel
him how much money would be needed
TO grease" the bill through the AS
sembly committee. 1t was arranged
that Stilwelrs telegram should give
number. which, Kendall testified, was
10 be the number of hundreds OF dol
lars TO be needed in the Assembly.
That was kendalrs explanation OF
the fifteen is the correct number tel
egram which he received the next day
from Stil,. III. He called Stilwell on
the telephone after receiving this tele-
gram. he swore, and talked over the
money question, and when he demurred
at the cost, Kendall said, Stilwell re-
sponded: "Well, therell be nothing
doing unless you put up the money.
Kendall thus brought his story down
10 March 20 and the telephone call and
conversation about which the whole
ia brio of his story centres. This was
the talk in which after gong over the
whole bride proposition, Kendall die
tated to Stilwell his telegram of eX-
posure which he proposed 10 send to
every Senator and TO the Governor.
Mr.. Mott put that unsent but pur-
posed telegram before the jury. through
Kendall. and according to the witness
the message was
"Stilwel refuses 10 report bill out
of Codes Committee unless we pay HIM
$500 each for four of his Senators and
81 500 for the Assembly Codes Commit
tee have already paid $3.50 for draft
ING bill What shall | do to get JUS
tice?"
The Senator insisted that such treat
ment was unfair, but Kendall respond
ed that he was having the fight OF his
life. after thirty years warfare on the
stock Exchange. and he did not pro-
pose Ia be thrown down" at this stage.
Gave Stilwell His Choice.
Fl told him." Kendall testified. that
he could have his choice-either have
the bill reported out of the Senate COM
mittee, and through the Assembly com
mttee. that day or the telegram would
be sent. ] told him Id give him until
that afternoon
Nh Mott then took Kendall over the
ground as TO the "alibi letter which
StilWeH wrote to Kendall few days
after the fifteen" telegram, and i'm that
letter Stilwell, referring TO the tele-
gram. explained at length that he found
there were only thirteen, not fifteen
members of the Assembly Codes Com
mittee. II is Stilwells claim that the
famous fifteen telegram referred to
number Of Assemblymen on Codes
and not to number of hundreds OF dol
lars needed to put the bill through the
Assembly committee as Kendall as
serted. The letter was put in evidence.
Robert NJ. Moore, of counsel for Still
well, took up the cross examination OF
Kendall. He extracted from the witness
first that he had not been particularly
interested in the bill providing for the
incorporation Of the Stock Exchange.
- That wasn't my bill. and | wasn't
I. particularly interested in it," was the
way Kendall put il.
p Ethel G. Allen. stenographer, tele-
s phone operator and treasurer of the
New York Bank Note Company, Ken
dalrs company took the stand TO iden-
tify the ambiguous telegram with
which Kendall provoked the first Of
Stilwelrs telephone calls from Albany.
Ruth Mitchell. telegraph operator at
y the Capitol; John Kersosky, telegraph
(, messenger. and Hiram Gorham, man
I ager Of the Capitol telegraph Office,
p testified 10 the receipt and delivery Of
the messages between Kendall and
Stilwell. and Field, the final witness for
the prosecution, took the stand
be- His evidence was concerned chiefly
{. with his confederation of the telephone
conversation between Kendall and Still
/. well on March &c. when Kendall
:, threatened the Senator with exposure.
F., He repeated that much repeated con-
',rversation, first in substance from
. memory, and later in detail from his
/. original notes, which were put in evil
s.dence and passed around the jury box.
- The Jurors took the keenest interest
. in the examination Of Field Questions
: came popping at him from practically
every man in the box. Field explained
that Kendall had interrupted Stilwells
conversation frequently and persist
entity solely TO give him more time to
e make his notes, and that even with
= that aid, and the fact that Kendall
: himself spoke very slowly. he had made
sonly a rough draft, which he filed in
Immediately afterward.
Jurors Examine Notes.
I. Fields complete notes of the CONVEX
sation we're then read slowly 10 the
Jury from the original draft by Assist
3, ant District Attorney Mott, and photo
graphs of the notes. as well as the orig
inal pages, were passed TO the jurors
and carefully examined.
The cross examination was brief be-
cause Field had practically been
through it at the hands of the jury
The defence was satisfied with bring
. ing out that he is a second cousin OF
8 Kendall and has been with Kendall In