The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-10-02
WITH
SULZER SECRET
ONE LABELED 800" IN STOCK
BROKERS' OFFICE ACkNOW.
LEDGED TO BELONG TO
THE GOVERNOR.

Albany, n. Y.-Counsel for the
board of managers rested their ease
i'll the Sulzer trial at 2:3O this after
noon.
Judge Herrick of Suffers counsel
asked the court to adjourn UNI
til Monday night. The court went
into executive session to decide this
question.
Albany, n. Y.-Direct connection
between account 500" and Governor
Sulzer was established today when
j. u. Gray of the stock exchange
firm of Fuller g. Gray, who handled
the account. told the court of i'm
parchment hat the stock transac-
i'll the account weer for the gov
ernor. Colwell was Suffers alleged
dummy.
Witness Gray said he had a con-
v%ersation with Colwell in October,
1912, relative to the opening of an
account. He said Colwell asked him
to get quotations on Big Four. Then
he gave an order to buy 100 shares.
He made two payments to him aga
inst the stock. one of $500 and the
other $1,000. He said $500 more was
paid by Colwell. The balance of S.
S25 was paid by Colwell on October
81, all in currency. The latter am
cunt was paid to Frederick Coe,
Gray's employee. No inquiry was
made as to why the payments were
made in cash and he hadn't asked
the cash came from.
To Use Handwriting Experts.
Handwriting experts appeared to-
day to testify at the Sulzer i'm
parchment trial where several sigma
lures made by either the governor or
his agents arc in dispute. Bank en-
ployees had failed to identify them.
One signature which counsel for
the board of managers is anxious to
identify, was attached to a letter ask
ing Harris & Fuller, New York brok-
ers, to close the governors accounts
to Lieut.. Commander Joseph T. Hale.
1t vas signed civilian Sulzer, for
Mrs. Sulzer."
Melville b. Fuller said this &C
count represented a loan made to
the governor who said the money
went to pay obligations incurred by
his wife at the Carnegie Trust COM
pany. o defunct.
For Mrs. Suffers Account.
Albany, N. Y.-Evidence that
Governor Suffers stock transactions
with the New York brokerage firms
of Harris and Fuller were for the
account of Mrs. Sulzer were disclos-
ed yesterday afternoon at the trial OF
his impeachment. The articles of
impeachment charge hat the gov
ernor made use of some of his unre-
ported campaign contributions in
these transactions.
Melville b. Fuller, head of the
firm, said that the governor had told
him that Mrs. Sulzer had a loan with
the now defunct Carnegie Trust COM
,pany of New York and that in order
to take up the loan for which he had
given his note, he had deposited Sc
scuritiess belonging to Mrs. Sul2el
with HARRIS and Fuller and borrow
ed money thereon TO pay the note.
The governors account with Harris
and Fuller which teh Impeachment
managers charge was a marginal OIL
Speculative account and not n loan ac-
count, vas opened in 1910, according
to the books of the firm which Full
Ter presented today. The Carnegie
Trust#company. it was recalled, was
in. financial difficulties that year anc
subsequently it failed.
The account not only showed :
long series of borrowing on securities
brought to the firm by Sulzer bu1
also the purchase and. sale OF other
securities, calls for margins ant
the deposit by Sulzer of cash pay.
ments for stock in response to these
lcallS.