Norwich bulletin., 1913-09-26
President of Mating Company Interceded For Him
 at the Request of SuIzer Himself
COLLECTED MONEY FROM LIQUOR INTERESTS
Charles A. Stader Testifes Regarding His Activities in ernor's Behalf During the Last Campaign -Employe of Stader Tells of Delivering Collections to Mrs Sulzer- Court Decides to Admit Evidence on all Contributions

l StanchfeId, counsel for the prosecu- | tlon, constituted a common scheme. a l design on the part of the respondent, i to display certain contributions and | conceal others. I can see that the
 failure to report one might have been l an accident; two a coincidence; but to 1 faii to account for hundred is a l crime"
 Attorneys for the governor protested i that the articles should be treated as
 an indictment and that the governor l could not be tried for offenses not l alleged in such indictment Presiding 1 Judge Cullen in a lengthy opinion over 1 ruled the objections of the governor S l counsel. He pointed out that they i had been given ample opportunity to ! request the prosecution for a bill of ! particulars.
 schiff is Recalled.
 Judge Cullen then submitted the 1 question to the vote of the court, and | the 55 membeIs present voted unani- | mously in favor of letting all the evil | denCe in.
 MT Schif was recalled to the stand | after counsel for the prosecution at l the outset of the session had made a i desperate fight to have the marrow of l his yesterdays testimony stricken 1 from the records. It was-and he re- ] peated in substance today that he had not intended his $2,50O gift for any
 
 l This was an admitted blow to the 1 prosecution. Because of the ruling by 1 Presiding Judge Cullen to the effect 1 that the lack of restriction as to the use of the gift absolved the governor from the charge of stealing it as set forth in the articles of impeachment
 Offered to Refund the $2,50o.
 T would like to know, MT. Schiff, if you have had any communications with Governor Sulzer since this mat ter was disclosed in the last two months, said Senator Foley T had not except that he invited me to come to Albany and I declined. ] To be correct, about four or five weeks l ago his secretary invited me to come
 to Albany to see Mrs. Suizer, who was ill. have seen Governor Sulzer only once since he went into office" Did anybody communicate with you in New fork city in behalf of MT Sul- ger and upon this matter of your contribution ?'
 Yes, MT. Frankenstein came to see me and told me that if l would accept it, Governor Sulzer would be very glad ! to refund to me the $2,500, to which ] replied that I could not now, since the 1 matter was under investigation, permit 1 the status to be changed"
 1 You refused to accept refund of ! the $2,500?' asked the senator l me. The question was only asked as l to whether I would accept it, to which 1 I said no. The exact words were, so 1 far as I remember, Governor Sulzer would like to repay you this $2, 800
 Telephone Talk With Mrs. Sulzerf
 The name of Mrs. Sulzer who it is i reported, will be one of the star wit
 nesses for the defense, was frequently 1 brought into the testimony today. It
 was developed that she had a tele- phOnic communication with Ralph i Trier, vice president of the Frank V. 1 Strauss company, in regard to the ! S1 GOO check which he hd sent to the i governor in behalf of Mr. Strauss. who
 was abroad. According to Triers tes- l timony Mrs. SuIzer had reported to i him over the telephone that the check 1 that he sent was not in the envelope. l The witness said that he had stopped payment on the check and sent the i governor another, and that Mrs. Sul- ger told him this time that the check l had been received. He added that ! Mrs. Sulzer and Mir. Strauss were re lated.
 Friend of Governor Testifies.
 Tn Judge Lewis J. Conlan of New 1 York, the managers called a friend of | the governor for more than thirty 1 years standing Mir. Conlan testified ] that he frequently had presented the | governors name for nominations at i conventions and otherwise had been
 intimately associated with him in 1 politics Three checks for S200, $100
 and $110 were given the governor by i MT. Conlan along with a personal gift of S1O0 during the campaign, and it
 was about these transactions that he 1 testified.
 MT. Conlan was interrogated as to ! how he came to collect the checks and contribute himself, and what he said ] to MT Sulzer while at his home
 sT think I mentioned that I beIev- l ed he was short of funds,' he replied,
 "or I thought he was, and that I in tended to what I could to collect some money for him and that I hoped to
 get more He thanked me for what I 1 had done and what I expected to do." 1 What else did you say to him as to
 the purpose for which you were col ] Iecting and giving him this money?' r. Tt was to help him along in the nee | essary work of the campaign that he
 was entering upon. I did not limit the
 use of 1t in any way nor did l attempt 1 to direct what he should do with it." The witness had not finished his tes- 1 timony when court adjourned