The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-09-27
Attorneys in Impeachment Case
Say Important Developments
Will Come Next Week
Trial Barely Started
COUNSEL DECLARES
DEFENSE is PERFECT
Prosecution Assert Sulzer Collected
Over 100000 for Campaign
Damaging Testimony Given
by Sulzer AppOintee
Telegram BY United Preaa

Telegram BY United Prea4
Albany Sept IA Attorneys for
both sides in the impeachment trjalI
continued today, each intImatiSs tsAt.
sensational developments were in,
pending.
The prosecution insisted that .i,sz
had barely started the case and next
week would show that sulzer had cot.
iected more than one hundred ass9s
sand dollars IN campaign contfibu.
tions.
Suffers attorney insisted that the
defense Is perfect ana they believe
,ney can convince al least third Of
the court that the money collected
was the gift Of friends to be used al
the unrestricted win OF sulzer They
contend that the cash was to be used
az Suffers will a two thirds vote is
required to Impeach.
sulzer declared the testimony Of
Superintendent OF Public Works Peck
that the governor asked him to com.
init perjury a deliberate lie. He
asked his counsel 20 recall Peck Moa.
day to mpeach his testimony. He
wants Peck % Ms q time and place and
produce witnesses.
suizer asked Duncan W Peck. state
superintendent OF public works. who
gave $500 90 the fund. to violate his
oath on the witness stand in event ne
should be called 70 testify before the
Frawley investigating committee, Peek
awore.
The governor, Peck asserted. had
told him that he. loo, would deny ha9.
ing received contributions This con.
yersation, De said was held IN the
governors office at the capitol The
witness was examined BY John B.
stanchfieId as to the precise words
used BY the governor
What did he say?"
lie said DO you as ! shall do
deny it
what else was said u ANYTHING =
Il said. J SUPPOSE shall be under
oathw
Ile said, 'tnai IS nothing ioysei
it
Attorney Hlnmann crossexanln-
ing Tor the defense, asked Peck il i
we're possible that he could be mis-
taken about a single word that passed
between aim and the governor
Not a word.r Peck replied, einphat
leally.
Peck at lhe time of his contribution
held his present position but told thi
governor, 30 sald, that there sereas
strings to the GIT and that be eF
Lot feel that ths governor was obi
gated to re-appoht him Peck W.
re-appointed.
It was further brought out that Rssa
ard Croker ir, son Of the former lead
er Of Tammany Hall, had contributes
s2oo0 check, payable, at the reques
of sulzer ito the order Of cash, an
that the check was cashed by Fred
erIok L, Colwel, alleged to have BEG
the governors agent III his VIZ
street transactions. Croker testisie
that the governor wanted the check \
convenient form to cash it immediate
" because he was in a hurry to star
on his campaign trip through sh
state.
This was on October e, but It We
developed that colwell did not cas-
the check until October 81
The latter testimony was given I
William b. Houghton, paying teller
a branch Of the Equitable Trust con
pany Of New York, who said that Co
well was his Sunday school teaehe
Demand for colwells produetio
brought out a statement from the 20
ernor's attorneys that they eNpectt
10 get in communication with him. /
has been missing several weeks.
The Croker check was one OF Sc
eral unreported campaign contrib
tions which were the subject Of t
timony.