The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-08-07
.SULzER RECEIVED
M'COMbS' CHECK
FOR LARGE AMOUNT
New Evidenc Obtained by
Frawley Committee and Con-
sidered Most Damaging
BROKERS REFUSE
TO GIVE TESTIMONY
Stock Operations and Bank
Deposits Show Sulzer is Not
Poor as He Persistently
Claimed

NEW YORK, Aug. 6.--The Fraw
ley committee. though hampered by
the fat refusal of tive witnesses to
answer questions about Governor Sui
zer's stock speculation, turned up evil
dence today which the committee and
it's counsel. Eugene l., Richard. Jr..
considers even more damaging than
last weeks revelation of the Jacob
Fl. Schiff check for $4,000 and the
Abram l. Elkus check for $500, which
the governor did not include in his
sworn statement OF campaign receipts.
Main Points Scored.
The four main points scored In to-
days two-hour session in the council
chamber OF the city hall were these:
l. In the course Of the campaign
Mr. Sulser. or his secretary, Louis A.
Sarecky. received from Henry Mo--
ganthau, treasurer OF the finance conn
mittee Of the Democratic national
committees check for ii 600: from
william r. McComhs. national Demo-
cratic chairman. check for $500.
and from John Lynn a check for $500.
None OF these was mentioned in the
governors sworn statement. IN which
he gave his total campaign receipts
as s5.460 and expenditures 1924.
2. In the account which Sarecky
had with the Mutual Alliance Trust
company between October LIST and
election day ninety-four checks were
deposited. all believed by the commit
tee to be a part OF the Sulzer cam
paign fund. III the governors sworn
statement the number cf contributors
was given as sixty-eight-
3. Between September 1st and Jan
nary 1st Governor Sulzer deposited
s243alsl to his personal account
x,ysth T. H Asrses cfSd ~ al
company, and on January lst had a
balance there of $22,527.47. Against
this fact Lawyer Richards sets Mr.
Suffers frequently repeated assertion
that he is a poor man.
4. On October 21st. somebody, said
by Mr.. Richards to be the governor.
bought. through the stock exchange
firm of Fuller & Gray. zoo shares OF
stock of the Cleveland. Cincinnati.
Chicago and st. Louis railroad, for
which he paid s11,eo0 in cash. 1t
must have proved bad investment
for the stock has been sliding ever
since and was quoted today at 81 bid
and AZ asked. with no sales--a paper
loss of $4,000 to the buyer of those
400 shares,
Would Compel Testimony.
This account stands on the firm $
books merely as account No. 500"
AffHOT Ia. uflpT. Oh ul1NI ~ tfThys
said he didn't know who the customer
was. Melville p. Fuller, Of Harris &
Fuller. also a stock exchange house.
refused to answer questions as to
whether he had dealings with Gov
ernor Sulzer. and r. l.. Colwell. for
merly member OF Harris 4 Fuller.
also blocked the committee by ad-
vice OF counsel Senator Frawley d.
rected Mr.. Richards to get a court
order to compel them to testify.
Mr.. Richards say that before the
committee is through It will be made
clear that the man who bought the
Big Four stock was Governor Sulzer,
Nobody pretends that 1t is criminal
for the governor to bump into the
stock market. If he has the price. But
the committee contends that money
received by the governor in his cam
paign far exceeds his statement I'M
der oath. that he deposited part of II
to his personal account; that he
bought stocks with part of tt. and. that
the correlation between the various
points in today's testimony will be
brought out later. 1t should be noted
that 80 far there Ia no actual proof
that Morgenthau, McCombs and Lynn
checks were campaign contributions.
or that the mysterious account No.
50o," was the governors, or that the
bank account came from campaign
laQurces.
Sarccky Governors Deposition.
II was made clear today that Louis
A. Sarecky, who refused, in Albany
last week to testify as to whether his
account with the Mutual Alliance
Trust company was really the gov
ernor's really was acting as the gov
ernors depositor OF campaign money.
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