The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-25
Ga tn erin g Evidence,
Which Will Be Laid
Before Juries.
ONLY BLUFFING,
TAMMANY RETORT
Frawley and Levy Will Be At
tackled, Along With Leader of
Wigwam-Meanwhile Back
ers of Glynn Continue to
Seek Damaging Testi-
mony Against Sulzer.
Ispecial 10 THE TImes-pispatch. ]

Especial to The Times Dispatch1
Albany, y. Y. August 24.-While the
rival claimants for the governorship p
ostensibly devoted the Sabbath to rest
with their families, Judge Lynn ]. Ar
mold. of counsel for William Sulzer,
and other attorneys consulted about
their plans for retaliation on Charles
+. Murphy, Senator Frawley and other
Tammany leaders by having them In
dcted. II was declared by one of them
to-day that they intend to try to pun
ish the Tammany chief, Chairman
Frawley. OF tho legislative committee
that has been raking up the anti-Sulzer
ammunition, and Leader of the Assem-
bly, Levy, by presenting evidence
| against them to the grand juries of
Albany and New York Counties.
through which they hope to send them
to prison.
These and other leaders are to be
charged with having been connected
with an illegal conspiracy to impeach
Sulzer. The anti-Murphy lawyers say
that they have their evidence in pretty
good shape and promise that it will
Call II All n Blur.
Murphy men retorted that It was
all bluff, and that there was no
chance at all of grand juries seriously
considering such data as the Suzer
lawyers are about to submit
Frawley committee agents to-day
visited Troy 10 procure evidence on
which they count on making more
trouble for Sulzer.
They hunted for witnesses who
| might shed some light on the disap-
pearance of $1,000 check contributed
10 the aSulzer direct primary campaign
fund. Joseph Murphy is said to have
handed II over either to the impeachcd
Governor or to his representative. 1t
! Is claimed that neither Sulzer nor any
or his men accounted for it.
The Frawley sleuths have also been
Instructed TO discover all they can of
alleged highway graft, for which il is
alleged the MurphySulzer machine in
RENSSELAER, may be responsible Ac-
cording to information impaired 10
F'rawley early in the year. Sulzer in
vestigators were about to lay bare
scandals involving Joseph Murphy. the
Democratic leader in Rensselaer,, and
John Consaiius, who had obtained
many fat things in the way of con-
tracts through Murphys influence.
suddenly the inquisition was called OFF.
About the same time, it is alleged.
Murphy handed over his $4,000 10 the
Sulzer primary campaign fund. Where
II Went and to whom. it is the purpose
OF the Frawley committee to ascer-
tain.
Chairman FrawIey is expected here
tomorrow, along with other members
OF the committee. TO arrange for the
resumption of hearings. one of the
hrst witnesses to be examined will be
Matthew t. Horgan, secretary of the
committee. He was at Suffers elbow
oay and night during the gubernatorial
campaign. Horgan Is expected to re-
veal how he secured the evidence that
Sulzer. as alleged. used campaign con-
tributions for Wall Street speculation.
He is depended upon TO prove that 1t
was SulZer himself, and not Mrs. Sui
zer who signed the checks for the
purchase of stocks which went on the
toboggan and that in denying that he