Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-08

dated zen route" in which Sarecky
was given authority to indorse
checks, was signed by him without
Suffers knowledge. He also swore
Sulzer knew nothing of the money
that went into that account.
This boy secretary and campaign
agent did not even vince when John
B. Stanchfeld on examination char
acterized his acts as forgeries.
Sarecky is to be the mainstay of the
defense His story is strikingly SIM
liar to the so-called confession of Mrs.
Sulzer, first related by Senator
Palmer and later confirmed by Sulzer
himself.
In the campaign, Sarecky said,
under Humans questions, he was in
charge of suffers headquarters, with
several assistants, including Matt
Morgan, later secretary to the Fraw-
ley committee and one of Suffers
most dangerous enemies, because he
furnished much information against
him.
Got 5000 Letters Day.
Letters and kilograms, Sarecky
said, came into the office at the rate
of $500 or 5000 a day, and there
were from 100 to 200 callers a day
He said he devised a form letter
which was sent out in answer to
most letters. He tried to make 1t
general enough to cover congratula-
tons. offers of assistance and con-
tributions. Nobody even told him not
to acknowledge contributions specifi-
cally.
He took checks and cash as the
money came in and deposited all in
his account in the Mutual Alliance
Trust Company. He said he never
put the names of the givers of checks
on deposit slips, but learned that the
bank did.
Then. after he had contradicted the
Pinckney testimony, Sarecky told OF
preparing the campaign statement.
He said that sometime after cleo
ton the people at headquarters re-
ceived, either from Tammany Hall
or the office of the secretary of state,
a form for such a statement. Then
the question came up whether the
highly informal committee, as secre-
tarv and treasurer of which he said
he had been working, had the right
to file a statement, inasmuch as it
had filed no notice of its formation,
due to somebody's ignorance or
neglect.
He consulted the governor elect
about it. who said to make out the
statement and he would sign It, as
at does not make much difference
who signs it, as long as We comply
with the spirit Of the law
Horgan Helps Make Up Statement.
So sarecky, with the assistance of
Horgan, made up the statement, and
when it was finished he took it in to
the governor elect. AS II was shown
to him, Sarecky swore, the first sheet |
was thrown back and merely part OF
the statement, including the two
places where he was to sign, ex-
posed
The witness said that Sulzer turned !
back to the first page, looked the |
statement over and then asked If 1t |
was "all right" Sarecky told him
it was as right as he could make it, |
so Sulzer signed it in two places.
Mr.. Stanchf1eld took up the cross
examination. He first asked the wit
ness about the zen route" letter. |
Sarecky said that nobody about the |
Mutual Alliance Trust Company |
asked him for authorization to in
dorse checks He said he knew the |
president Webb Floyd, but did not |
think Floyd or anybody else asked
him directly for authorization; they
spoke to one of his assistants, who
called the matter to his attention.
'lnlS WAS d COupie VI udyS btlOiO
delivered the letter, or about Octo-
Der 20. The cross examination con-
tinued from there as follows:
Q.-Now at that time you had been
for years indorsing the governors
name to papers of one sort or an
other hadn't you? Ayes, SIR.
Q.-You never had signed his name
civilian Sulzer, per Louis A. Sa-
recky?" Al do not think I did.
Q.-When you did sign it you signed
it civilian Sulzer," didn't you? A
I did.
Q.-And you had tried for years to |
initiate the handwriting of the gov
ernor, did you not? Al did.
Q.-You have signed that name time
and time and time again just as
closely as you could initiate his orig
NAL signature? Ayes, sir.
Q.-That was your purpose in sign
ing 1t, was 1t not? Ayes, sir.