The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-09-30
$500 COFFEE MONEY
Importer Carried Cash From
Herman Sielcken's Firm
to 115 Broadway.
"YOC FOR ME-. I FOR YOU"
Two Assemblymen Tell About
Direct Primary Talks With
Governor.

ALBANY. Sept. ce.--Testimony against
William Sulzer is likely to be finished 10y
Tomorrow afternoon or Wednesday morn.
Ing 1T the latest. By Wednesday after.
noon the Governor may be on the stand
beginning the long story OF poverty and
persecution which he believes will save
him.
In five days of actual testimony the
swiftly moving lawyers of the prosecution
have nearly completed their case. They
expected to require AT least seven. They
believe they have already insured convic-
tion. However. they are holding some OF
their best witnesses for rebuttal
They think that Gov. Suffers narrative
In his own defence will cover 50 much
ground that n wide latitude Of testimony
will be- permitted In reply.
The Governors lawyers were elatcd to.
day by rulings of Judge Cullen. which
blocked the Impeachment managers at
two important points. one Of them was
that nobody except John Boyd Gray of
Fuller 4 Gray could b. allowed to testify
as Ia whether or not account 500 which
Frederick l.. Colwcll carried with that
firm. was really the account Of William
Sulzcr.
Two witnesses Of whom this question
was asked to-day were checked by the
dcfcncc sustained by Judge Culien. when
they said they only knew what Mr.. Gray
had told them The Impeachment man
ayers were hit by this ruling because
their subpoena servers have been unable
to find Mr.. Gray. However. hts partner.
Arthur II. Fuller. has promised to find
MI. Gray If he can and have him in Al.
6any Tomorrow.
second Ruitnw for Suiscr.
The other ruling which heartencd the
defence and went hard with the prosecu-
tion was that no Assemhlymcn except
Thaddcus q. Swec, of Oswcgo county and
Spencer q. Prime I'd of Essex county
could testify as to the Governors alleged
corrupt use of the veto power in bar
gaining for votes for his direct primary
bill. as alleged in impeachment Ar
ticle VII
Judge Cullen decided. and no other
member of the court dissented, that no
acts of this sort not mentioned In the
impeachment articles could be dragged in.
For the prosecution the one big bit OF
new evidence supplied from among the
thirteen witnesses heard in a four hour
session was that George W. Crossman Of
Crossman 4 Sielcken. New York coffee
importers. sent s2.5oO in cash to Mr..
Sulzer on October Is last.
John S. Sorenson. coffee importer
with that frni testified he carried the
money in his hand to MIR. Suffers office
st ll5 Broadway and that the candidate
said: THANK Mr.. Crossman for me-
The witness was not asked ii this was a
campaign contribution nor how it hap
pened to be cash rather than check.
$4,000 From "CoHee Kings" Firm.
The coffee importing firm Of Crossman
4 Sielcken IL Herman Sielcken only" ac-
cording to the copartnership and corpora
tion directory. Mr.. Sielcken. who lives at
the Waldorf astoria. engineered the Bra
silian coffee valorization scheme which the
Federal Government once attacked as a
trust. At the time when his firm gave
S2.600 in cash to Mr.. Sulzer the candidate
for Governor was still chairman of the
Committee on Foreign Relations In the
House OF Representatives.
Two small gifts were disclosed. Judge
Edward r. O'Dwyer of the City Court
In New York testified that he left 800
In an envelope at the Manhattan Club
for Mr.. Sulzer and got no acknowledge
ment. From John +. O'Brien. New
York milk dealer. 1t was learned that
he sent a $50 check to Mr.. Suzer 'as
my contribution and that Mr.. Sulzer
expressed gratitude in reply.
SuIser's Denial Of July 80.
Counsel for the Impeachment managers
Put one Of Gov. Sulzers clerks on the
stand and made him produce a copy "f
what was called the Schin statement of
July 80" This was marked az an exhibit
and placed In evidence.
1t Is 4 statement issued to the news-
papers by the Governor following the first
revelations from the Frawley committee
about the Governors unreported campaign
contributions. Gov. Sulzer In this state.
ment said most OF the Frawley charges
were lies.
OF the schiff check for $4,000. he said
he didn't hear anything about the alleged
contribution until May. 19l3. lie sug-
gested that It might have been given to
q friend without his knowledge
1t WAS soon after this statement was
printed. So Jacob II. Schlm has testified.
mer law partner, went TO the banker and
wanted to refund the S2,6O0.
E.ecstive Chamber Bargsias.
In telling his story. related to the F'raw.
NY committee long ago, OF how ne asked
SulHer to sign hs hin appropriatipg
80 0OO for bridge over the OswegO