New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-08
Continued Harassing of Gov
7. ernor Said To Be FraW|ey
Plan, Rather than Snap
Impeachment Trial..
MORE STOCK DEAL CHECKS
Sizzling Statisticians" Uproot
Another Big Four Purchase
COMMITTEE May Send
Silent Wall Street
Brokers to Jail.

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Brokers to Jail.
! The Frawley Senate investigating
| committee. which is rapidly coming to
J he commonly known as "Sulzer' s
Sizzling Statisticians," uprooted an
other 1O0-share purchase of Big
Four railroad stock yesterday which
it wants the Governor to explain. In
/ cidentally the committee found an
other check-this one for $25O-con-
trlbuted to his campaign fund but
not listed in the Governors sworn
statement Of campaign contributions.
Frederick l.. Colwell, the man whom
the hmittee charges with being the
go-between for Sulzer in his stock
dealings. appeared again yesterday IN
the evidence, this time as the bearer
OF and man who cashed John Lynns
contribution check for $500. drawn TO
Suffers order, in the Office of he
brokerage firm Of Boyer, Griswold h
Co, who obtained the additional 100
shares of Big Four stock for cash.
The poi that stood out in clearest
relief about the Sulzer stock specula-
ton, apart from the committees
charge that the Governor used his COM
paign contributions for market trans
actions. was that some one. as yet un
covered, gave him very bad tip on
tho stock market.
There is a slight gap in the sequence
of the story OF the Lynn check, as IL
now shows on the committees record.
so far as making the charge fatty
definite that Sulzer turned that idenu
cal money into the market instead OF
into his campaign. But Eugene Lamb
Richards. the committees counsel, cx-
pressed himself as being satisfied that
he can fill in that gap as soon as he
puts Colwell in position where he
cannot stand pat on his refuse TO
answer" method.
imprisonment a Possibility.
This feature Of the investigation.
Senator Frawley said, will be taken
care of next Monday night, when the
Legislature meets. The Legislature
has the power to imprison witnesses
for contempt. he said. and he seems
10 have no doubt that course viii lie
followed if Colwell and others persist
in their defiant attitudes.
As to the indictment instead Of i'm
peachment" slogan. which has begun
TO animate the Tammany contingent
who are making things uncomfortable
for Governor Sulzer, Mr. Richards yes
terday insisted that such proceedings
were not in any way up to him.
"Any conversion OF fund.-" said Mr..
Richards, comes under the general
statutory head Of larceny; but the
ONLY individual who has any complaint
in a matter Of this kind is the m
dividual who feels that he has con
,ributed funds for a project in which
he. with the recipient. maintains an
interest, and il might be that II would
have 10 be proved that the interest
was put in jeopardy by the conversion
OF funds"
While neither Senator Frawley nor
the other committeeman are Wiling
TO outline their plans Of action get
it was intimated yesterday that the
general idea would be more along the
line OF harassng and embarrassing
the Governor to the point where he
would he anxious to come before the
committee TO explain, rather than to
attempt TO proceed 10 the definite pro-
ceeding Of ! peachment or indict-
ment.
II is certain. however. that the com
mittee's record and cooperation Viii
be freely offered to any compaign con
tributor who feels so "agRrieVed' at
the discl. iures that he will proceed
against the Governor, and II Is equally
certain that Tammany will not stop or
hesitate at impeachment proceedings,
If II is ,ertain Of its ground.
No Snap impeachment Trial.
There certainly will not be any I'M
peachment proceedings started unless
II is absolutely certain that there Is
going 10 be an Impeachment" was the
wav one Tammany man put IL yester-
dav and that Is believed 10 he an
accurate forecast OF the committees
plan.
Philip Boyer banker and broker
vyho was a member Of the now dis
soi,ed firm Of Boyer. Griswold Co..
testified Yesterday as TO the activity
90 colwel as customer OF the arm
last November.
Rover identified check for Soo
ode ont TO William Sulzer, signed by
Iohn LYNN and ihdorsed by sulzer,
ond testified that his firm cashed that
ohacr and took from the proceeds
enough 70 pay for 100 shares Of Big
ronr stock which they bought on Col
wells ORDER
.you had no account In the name
-, william Sulzer. did you?" asked
Mr.. Richards
$50 we had no such account
.rhio check is Endorsed by William
e,,,,or and was made out October I'D
vnn and passed through the