Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1913-10-01
1T known that he was doing business
with Gray's firm.

ColWell, who had acted as priyat
secretary to Gray, formerly was en-
ployed by the firm Of Harris and Flu
Ter. Colwell did not not want Harri
and Fuller to know, the witness sale
that he was bringing any business t
Fuller and Gray. One bond whicI
Colwell purchased from the firm wa
for a woman, the witness testified
whose name Gray could not remem
ber, although Colwell had revealed
her identity when the bond was de
: livered.
Gray said he was contributor
through Colwell, to the governors
campaign fund. He said he could moi
recall whether he gave $50 or $1OO.
It was brought out that Colwell
lives in one Of the brokers' houses
in Yonkers. Gray was questioned re.
garding Colwell's present where
abouts bQt insisted that he had not
seen nor heard from Colwell since
he disappeared several weeks ago.
Gray was not subpoenaed by the
impeachment managers until yester.
day, owing to the inability Of process
servers to locate him. His attorney
former Judge Bell Of Yonkers, was
placed on the stand yesterday and re-
quested TO get into communication
with Gray. This resulted in his ap-
pearance today. He said today that
he had been attending to business
in his various offices every day that
the process servers had been
searching for him.
AT the opening today Melville B.
Fuller of the brokerage firm Of Harris
& Fuller, made a personal statement
to the court Mr. Fuller read from
prepared copy. He first referred to
headlines in various evening papers
relative to his testimony yesterday
Il have concealed nothing, the wit
ness declared Il testified frankly |
and freely before the Frawley com
mittee although Understand"
Attorney Stanchfield interrupted. I
claiming that the comment on the
Frawley committee exceeded the
province Of a personal statement
Judge Cullen sustained the attorney
and told the witness to confine him
self to a personal statement.
"The books of my firm are abso-
lutely correct" Mr.. Fuller then said.
mo balances we're forced. No items
were omitted or concealed in them to
protect Sulzer or any one else"
"soft" Job for sarecky
Most Of the morning session was
devoted to an effort by the managers
to show how and why Governor Sui
ser rewarded his campaign secretary,
Louis A. Sarecky, by procuring him
\ $4,000 job in the state immigration
service.
They evidently did not wish t. call
Sarecky as witness unless forced to
10 so, and endeavored to establish
heir point by reading excerpts from
he proceedings of the Frawley in
committee before whom
sarecly repeatedly refused to testify. /
Counsel for the governor objected
o this line of evidence. Judge War /
Ter asked Mr.. Stanchfield Of the pros
'cution whether Sareeky was to be
;alled as witness. One of the Sulzer
awyers informed him, that Sarecky !
vas under subpoena fgom the mana
,ers' counsel.
But interrupte1 Mr. Stanohfield
you need not understand from that
act that the managers are going. to /,
make him their Witness asrAi
1--WE never thought you would in.
Judge Herrick, the govern
RS chief counsel.
Presiding Judge Cullen then ruled
hat Mr.. Stanchfield, in reading the
Iarecky testimony. must confine him
elf to the parts in which Sarecky re-
used to answer the questions con
erning the campaign contributions
John G. Birdseye, secretary Of the !,
ivil service commission, testified
hat the commission suspended its
ules at Suffers request in order that >
arecky might be appointed deporta-
ion agent at a salary of $4,000. This :
vas done on the grounc rhat Sarecky
vas master of five languages and 7
vas peculiarly equipped for the posi- =
ion by reason Of his knowledge of
he jargon of the races which largely
onstitute our state insane hospital .
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