New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-13
His Secret Trip to New York
Made to Raise Money for
HenneSSy'S Anti-Tam-
many Fight.
DIDN'T GET IT, SAY FRIENDS
Managers of Impeachment Trial
Obtain Letter TO Stock
Brokers in Which Exec
utive Brought Name
of Wife Into Deals.

Governor Wlllldm SulZeI SlPPeu
n,vster,ously into town and out again
Yesterday. He shrouded both his en-
trance and his exit in secrecy. Accord
ing 10 some Of his closest friends in
New York he came here from Albany
on the night boat Of Thursday. made
his headquarters at the Hotel I'm
perial. and then slipped quietly out on
the / o'clock train from the Grand Cen
tral IN the afternoon.
Meanwhile. at No. 50 Wall street. the
beadauarters Of the Assembly board of
managers for the impeachment of the
Governor. that body was delvinG into
the Governors rat stock accounts.
They brought TO light a document in
which William Sulzer himself, one
month ~ q day before his impeach-
n,ept. had begun 10 lay out the defence
that his wife was responsible when the
charge Of stock gambling with his cam
paien funds was brought against him.
Melville 3. Fuller Suffers stock
broker was at a loss to explain why
Sulzer had so introduced his wife's
name, but it stood there, dragged
gratuitously into a stock deal with
Harris & Fuller. on the last step Of the
deal. when Sulzer signed an order to
have the securities involved in the deal
delivered to Lieutenant Comms nder l..
N. Josephthal.
His Movements Mysterious.
Suffers own movements yesterday
were not less mysterious than mis- mo-
tives in writing his wife's name on
the document brought ont before the
men who will handle his prosecution.
II was said that he came here on spe-
cial mission Of money raising for
fund TO enable him to keep John y.
Hennessy going on his road graft con-
tract investigation.
Further. his friends admitted, the
Governor was unsuccessful in raising
any money for that purpose. and while
Sulzer held a brief conference with
Bennessy he could not give any as
surance 10 his chief investigator that
there would be any sinews of war TO
carry on his attack on the road graft
ers.
AZ the Grand Central Terminal, just
before the 4 o'clock train pulled out,
the gateman said that Governor Sulzer
vas aboard. but he was not found in
any Of the public sections of the train.
A dispatch from Albany last even
ing however, told Of his arriva! there
il added that he was in conference at
the Executive Mansion and wouldn't
talk.
Melville b. Fuller. Of the stock
brokerage firm OF Harris & Fuller, OF
No. 10 Broadway. who testified before
the Frawley committee, was on the
witness stand before the managers.
he was examined by Isidor Kresel, of
counsel for the impeachment.
lie had gone over the entire ac-
count Of William Sulzer with his firm,
running from 1910 through to July IL,
1912, wlaf Lieutenant Commander l..
NJ, Josephthsl paid mp the Sz6, ,I39 Sui
ger owed and took the stock which
Sulzer had left in the account, pending
the payment.
Kresel wanted TO know whether Jo-
sephthal had brought any order from
Sulzer directing the Harris & Fuller
firm 10 deliver the stock, which be-
lDnged to Sulzer. to Josephthal. Fuller
said that Josephthal brought such an
order. and he telephoned TO his office to
have the order brought over. 1t was
presented TO the managers, as follows:
"Messrs Harris & Fuller.
Gentlemen: Please deliver To Lieu
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