New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-13
lanes Stewart, Contractor,
Willing to Testify About His
Contributions to Unre-
ported Tammany Funds.
IlIDGE BULGER AIDS PROBE
Report Oswego Leader Has In
formation That Will Startle
State-McGuire to Back
Up Hennessy on
Stand To-day.

George Gordon Battle, counsel for
James Stewart, the contractor who was
down in John A. Hennessy's list as the
largest single ontractor-contributor 10
Tammany campaign funds, sent word
90 District Attorney Whitman last
night that Mr.. Stewart would be pro-
auced as a witness in the John Doe in
opjrv whenever he was wanted.
Whitman's process servers, who have
been securing upstate counties for pro-
spective witnesses since Hennessy
made his first sworn statement have
heen making particular efforts to reach
stewart who. according to Hennessy,
contributed $25,0O0 to the Democratic
state fund in 1910. $4,000 in 1911 and
$1,000 in 1912, of which but small
percentage was ever reported in the
statements filed by Arthur a. Mclean,
the Democratic treasurer, with the
Secretary of State.
Stewart has been on a hunting trip
in the Rocky Mountains. a vacation
which he takes every October and it
had been rumored that he was planning
a European trip which might keep him
AWAY during the life of the John Doe
inquiry. Mr.. Battle said last night
that he had seen Mr.. Stewart since his
return from the West and that the con-
tractor was not contemplating any
further journey or voyage.
McGuire's Ordeal To-day.
District Attorney Whitman will avail
himself of Mr.. Battles offer, it is
understood, just as soon as he finishes
with George II. Mcclure. the Syracuse
bonding agent. Mcclure put in the
day yesterday preparing for the ordeal
which he will probably face on the
witness stand this afternoon, when he
will be called upon to support and cor
roborate the evidence given by Hen
messy as 10 the thousands Of dollars
contributed" TO Tammany campaign
funds in the last three years by con-
tractors VINO were enjoying or eX-
pected TO enjoy awards of canal or
highway work.
Assistant District Attorney John
Kirkland Clark. who was sent out early
yesterday morning on a hurried trip to
Oswego will report to Mr.. Whitman
this morning on the result OF con-
ference he held there yesterday with
former Judge Charles y. Bplger.
Judge Bulger former Democratic
laadar of ncu,epo County was brought
into the case suddenly yesterday. when
q friend of his sent word TO Mr.. Whit
man that Bulger had lot Of valuable
information along the lines that are
being traced out in the John Doe in
Quiry. and intimated that Judge Bulger
would be willing 10 talk to represen-
tative of the District Attorney.
1t is understood that Judge Bulger's
information is that Hennessy's state
ments as to the number Of contractors
Who were forced to contribute and the
amounts they contributed are mislead-
ng only because they were too small.
II is said that he can Tip" the Dis
,rict Attorney on a large number OF
names Of contractors not named so iar
in the inquiry and supply information
tending 10 show that the amounts Hen
messy amed in his statement are not
: one-third as large as the money those
Contractors actually contributed.
Means Blow to Tammany.
Bulgers entrance into the case, COM
ing directly on the heels Of Governor
Glynn's announcement that he would
cooperate with Whitman and his CO.
incident announcement OF sweeping
anuTammany programme in general
is considered significant from the po-
litcal angle Bulger was the first up
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