The Mena weekly star., 1913-10-30
LOR|NER PLOT TO
 RUIN FUNK FAILS
Mrs. John C. Henning, Woman Paid to Ruin Man Who Exposed Con Spiracy, COnfesses in Court
 Her Husband in Deal.

Chicago Oct. 26.-The plot to ruin Clarence s. Funk, former gen eral manager of the International Harvester Company, in revenge for his exposure of the conspiracy to put Lorimer over" in the sena- torial contest three years ago, con- pletely collapsed in court yesterday.
 Mrs. John C. Henning, whose hus- band brought suit against Funk asking $25000 damages for the all legged alienation of her affections, stood in the witness box in court and, looking Funk in the face, swore she did not know him and never had seen him before.
 The womans admission and her amazing story, told on the witness stand subsequently,, of the plot into which she and her husband had en- tered on the promise of an attorney that they would never have to work again." completely exonerate Funk and show him to have been the intended victim of men higher up"
 Funk himself has declared that the suit was inspired by men he named when he testified that Ed ward Hines, the millionaire lumber man, had told him it cost $i00000 to put LOrimer over" He de- clared that Hines had asked him to contribute on behalf of the harvest CT company to a fund to reimburse the men who had put up the SiG0,- GOO.
 The woman's suit against Funk went to trial a year ago and a yer dict favorable to Funk was quickly returned. Following the verdict, a warrant for perjury was issued against Henning, who subsequently, confessed his part in inc plot. His testimony resulted in the indict- ment of an attorney. a private de tective and a woman.
 Offered Her Easy Money.
 Mrs. Henning testified with little prompting by the state. She said that Miss Allen Hepner, who is un- der indictment in connection with the conspiracy, first approached her two years ago and asked her to meet a man who, Miss Hepner said could show her a way 10 make some easy money. Miss Hepner took her to the office of DOnahoe, an attOr- ney, she said. DOnahOe told her that he wanted to use her name in a suit paid her Sl00 and told her she would never need tO work again if she remained lOyal.'
 'Donahoe did not know at that time that I was married" said the witness. q gave him the name of Miss O'Reilly. Two weeks later when I told him I was married, he became angry and said I had spoiled everything Then he told me he could not use me unless my husband became a party to the scheme, too."
 Husband Into the Plot.
 Two weeks later, Mrs. HpEnina said, she and her husband, John c Henning, visited Donahoe's office al lllc law StI SOllJlJdIIOll. ltililillE consented to enter the alleged plot, she said, and the attorney paid each of them Sl0O, It was under stood, she said, that a suit was to be filed against Funk, but that il was to be kept quiet"
 With her husband she went tC Mobile and registered at a hotel, where they learned through the newspapers that the suit charging Funk with alienation had been filed with much accompanying newspa- per publicity. She wrote to Dona- hoe complaining of the publicity. A few weeks later Bennett an at torney, arrived in Mobile with a note from Donahoe and S200. When newspaper reporters became too in sistent she and her husband parted at the advice of DOnahoe, she said, and began travelling about the country always supplied with funds.
 Donahoe listened with a very red face to much of her story that Donahoe had bribed her to appear as n false witness against Funl