Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-09
Springfield Woman De-
nies Authorship of Pa
per Offered Senate.
WRITING EXPERT is AID
Latter States Signatures Are
Not Similar to- That of the
Lieutenant Governor.

/ Chicago, May 9.-Mrs. Maud Robin
son, alleged author of the affidavit
produced in the state senate charging
/ Lieutenant Governor O'Hara with i'm
morality, was at the home of her cou-
sin. Mrs. Nicholas Nomikos, in East
/ Sixty-third street, yesterday and last
night, according to Mrs. Nomikos, who
stated her cousin denied authorship
of the affidavit, and declared Mrs. Rob-
inson returned to Springfield today.
Marshall Ewell, one Of the foremost
! handwriting experts in the country, to-
day made a scientific examination
comparing O'Hara's handwriting with
the Duncan" and Miller signatures
on the register of the Hotel Sherman.
He stated the signatures on the regis
ter were natural, no attempt at dis
guise having been made, and that they
in no wise were similar to that of the
lieutenant governor.
HOrE TO DIsPRoVT, CHARGES.
Chicago, May 9.-Chicago friends of
Lieutenant Governor O'Hara were
busy yesterday gathering evidence to
disprove the charges made before the
state senate that Mr.. O'Hara regis
tered at the Hotel Sherman under a
fictitious name on Jan. IS with a
strange woman.
Several Of his friends asserted last
night they would have no difficulty
convincing the senatorial investigat-
ing committee of the falsity of the al
legation made by Maud Robinson of
Springfield that the lieutenant goyeEs
nor was in the "hotel party"
Discovery during the day of the
missing Hotel Sherman register by
the hotel manager developed that 81.
p Miller and wife" ard ct. d. Duncan
and wife" OF Springfield, o." men
toned in the affidavit filed with the
senate by Chief Deputy Sheriff Rich
ard NJ. Sullivan of Sangamon county,
| had been registered on Jan. IS be-
J tween 6 and p. m. The names were
written in the same handwriting. Com
! parison of the lieutenant governors
I signature with the register showed no
l similarity in the chirography.
SAYS O'HARA Is STRANGER.
Wright A Salter, the clerk who as
signed the rooms, was positive he
never had met Mr.. O'Hara.
Il do not recall" said Salter, "the
two couples who registered under the
= names of Miller and Duncan, but am
sure have never seen the lieutenant
governor. l saw his picture in a morn
ing paper, and if it is good likeness
. as am told it isl am certain l never
, 'roomed' him. rarely am mistaken in
{ the memory of faces.
/, The register shows that the two
=. men and two women were given the
= suite including rooms 512, 514, and
: SIS two bedrooms and a parlor. They
remained three days. The signatures
evidently were written by one man
, and the writing shows he was sober,
as he would have to have been or |
o would not have received the party.
o The suite taken is one of the most ex-
, pensive in the hotel"
Y CHECKS MAY PROVE ALIBI
: The lieutenant governors defenders
:, made much of the discovery of num-
: Der of checks signed by him at the
Press club of Chicago on Jan. IT and
o IS, two of the days he is charged with
e being at Hotel Sherman. These
d checks, they say, confirm the state
t ment of Harry Gibbons, baiIiff in
e Judge McDonald's court, that Mr.
e O'Hara left him after departing from
- a party in January at the Lambs clut
a cafe. where. he, the lieutenant COVER
s nor. Thomas Vredenberg. and two
l. young women friends OF Vredenbere
were guests. Gibbons charges the
o lieutenant governor is the victim of q
y frame-up like the Funk-Henning affair
l. While Gibbons was unable to fix the
exact date of the dinner party in his
mind, he expressed the opinion that i
was the night in question.
Mr.. O'Hara and l were together
during an afternoon in January, abou
= the seventeenth" said Gibbons, "anC
in the evening We met Tom Vreden
] berg. at the time a stranger TO me, anC
two girl friends of Yredenberg- l d.
a not remember the names of the girls
n We five went TO the College Inn 70
~ dinner about p. N After spending
"a some time there We went to tht
;, Lambs cafe across the street Will,
- We were there OHara said he wantet
NJ to break away and asked me To sta,
\. with him so as 10 make it easy /
70 was about midnight when We left
O TELLS OF PARTY BREAKUP.
After conversing for a minute o
al two al the corner of Randolph ant
IS Clark streets, Vredenberg and tn
" girls crossed the street toward tn
10 Hotel Sherman. Mr.. O'Hara told M
he was going to the Press club to pla,