The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-09-27
BE Easy With Me,"GOvernOr
Appealed to Henry
Morgenthau.
r. CROKER, JR., A GIVER
His Check for $1,000 Cashed
Is Days Later by F. l..
COlwell.
BIG FOUR STOCK DEAL
Brokers Testify and Show
Many Checks Given
for Campaign.
DEFENCE GETS A RULING
Witnesses Permitted to Say
Gifts in October Were for
Personal Use.
DEFENCE GETS A RULING

were dealt to the Sulzer defence to-day.
Both Of them we're unexpected ny his
lawyers.
Duncan w Peck. State Superintendent
OF Public Works, swore that he gave Mr..
Suizer a $500 bill as a cappaisn c"ntr'
button and that the Governor advis=i nm
to tell the Frawley committee that he had
made no such gift. He quoted tn. GOV.
ernor as saying:
DO as I shall; d.n: H." az! s::,cn 81.
Peck protested 81 suppose snail bc under
OATH" Mr. Sulzer replied, That's noth-
ing: forget IT,"
Mr.. Peck said he could not be mistaken
as to a word of this conversation which
took place in the Executive Chamber e
the Capitol.
The other blow came from the prosecu.
tion's witness, Henry Morgenthau AM
bassador to Turkey. who Nstihed ON
Wednesday that he gave contribution ot
l.0eO without restrictions. Recalled TO-
day, he said with rueful frankncss that
Gov Sulzer over the long distance tee
phone on September = or 3 asked him 10
treat the affair between us as rersor.L"
IL told him | could not said Mr..
Morsenthau
He said also that the Governor begged
him. 'If you are going TO testify. lie easy
with me- and that he replied he would
testify to the facts
Richard Croker, Jr., Gave $4,000.
Dwsrfed by comparison with these ad-
! Missions was the testimony of Richard
Cooker. .Ir., as to ii $4,000 check that he
| handed to Mr. Sulzer ON October ls. 1919.
This check was made payable to In. order
! OF cash at the request of Mr.. Suaer.
/ The candidate said according 10 Mr
Croker, who testified with rcluctanc. :. that
he needed ready money because H.: was
leaving that night or the next day on an
upstate campaign trip.
| But the check was not cashed until tif-
teen days later. and the man VI, then
| turned II into money Was Frederick l..
Colwell, pictured by the impeachment
managers AS Mr.. Suffers agent in stock
, speculation.
Mr.. Croker said his gift was "flr Gun.
| paign expenses or anything else.
These points were scored to-day by me
prosecution. There were two also fur the
defence. One was a ruling by the court
whether or not their contributions to Nj.
| Sulzer were made without stipulation as
to purpose. The other was a ruling some
what akin to this, that witnesses mas tell
what their intent was at the time the
| gifts were made.
! "PersonaI Use" plea.
! The Importance Of these decisions to
the Governors defenders was indicated
when Judge Herrick, his chief counsel.
said. We propose 10 show that thess
moneys were given to him for his per-
| sonal use
| Duncan W Peck has known william
| Sulzer for twenty years and until last
May was his friend At that time they
quarrelled over who should be section
| superintendent on the barge canal n,
Cohoes
Owen J. Kearney had the job He was
a McCabe man and Gov. Sulzer wanted
to get rid of him. Peck. who comes from
! Syracuse and is friend of William II.
/ Kelley, the Democratic boss there. re-
fused.
! Th. Governor insisted and, becoming
more powerful in July had his way. Peck
| ousted Kearney and appointed John
| Slavin. who sided with neither. This was
| done after Mr.. Suzcr told Peck he would
remove him II he did not get rid of koag-
ney.
| When the Governor was imprached
Peck discharged Slavin, The discord
between Mr. Peck and Mr.. Sulzer has been
growing since then. Hut whatever the
feeling between Mr.. Sulxer and the man
whom he reappointed TO be State SuperIn-
tendent OF Public Works IN January
Mr.. Peck's manner was wholly sorrowfu
when he made the revelation that seemed
so blasting to-day.
Jerome In Court Al nay.
! As to Mr.. Morscnthau the prosecution
seemed to have found out over night that
he had not been fully questioned on
Wednesday. Everybody was surprised
when he was discovered this morning
sitting behind William 7. jerome. who
spent the day In the court room as =
spectator.
To-day for the first time the pr osecution
peered into the Governors alleged Wall
street adventures That Frederick L.,
Colweil, In buying Big -Four stock fiom
the brokerage firm of Boyer. Griswoid
a Co. used seven checks, said by the
prosecution to he campaign contril';.'ons.
was brought out through the testimony