New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-10

II 10 Iiiii, NAOh SON'
Stanchfeld.
ION information and belief and on
the advice of my attorney" Connolly
answered.
whether your attorney advised you
or not. you were willing to lie about
il? Now, answer me-"
Il was willing to lie about it'-Con-
molly began in a slow, deliberate way
when Mr.. Stanchheld interrupted say
ing. "AIl right. 1 am not asking you
anything further"
Connolly Gains Time.
But Connolly, hard beset as he was,
had his wits about him and appeared
TO Senator Murtaugh that he was not
answering when he said those words
but merely repeating Mr.. stanchfeidS
question.
The chairman told the witness TO
take all the time he wanted, and Con-
molly finally amended his answer to
read that he had acted solely under the
advice Of his attorney withdrawing
the words Il was willing to lie about
it,"
In the fencing about by Connolly TO
evade the admission that he had sworn
70 a complaint which he now says was
false in alleging that the payments 10
Cohalan were loans, several OF the
TammGny members of the committee
was very rough going for Connolly
and although il appeared on the sur
face at first to be merely a case OF
badgering the witness, it developed
later that the whole thing had been
seized upon as means of setting up
counter charge against Justice CO.
halan's chief accuser.
The idea of carrying the matter 10 the
limit by calling on District Attorney
Whitman 10 prosecute Connolly for per-
,ury did not take definite shape until after
the night session. Then the Tammany
leaders made no secret OF the fact 'ha'
they believed they had sufficient GROUNDS
on which TO make such move.
1t is their claim that Connolly sWore on
the stand that in taking oath to the orlsl-
nal complaint against COhalan in the mat
ter of the contemplated suit to get BACK
the $3.50 So he had subscribed to false
statement which they assert was ma
terial fact in a court proceeding.
Their plan now is 10 send a transcript
of this testimony to Mr.. whitman WIN
the conclusion of the committeeman at
tached TO the effect that in their oehel
Connolly committed perjury in 1919 "hen
he swore to the original complaint Fn-
vately the men who are contemplating
this move admit that there would be little
or no prospect of fixing such perjury on
Connolly. hut il is their belief that by
such a step they could becloud the issue
enough so that they could safely eXoner-
ate Cohalan, on the ground that the chlet
witness against him had previously per
iured himself and that his evidence was
not worthy Of belief on that account
INDUCES in Badinase.
Apart from the circumstances surround
ing this new Tammany move. the even
ing session was enlivened by attempts 10
",osh" Connolly by Mr.. stanchheld. me
lawyer spoke Of Commissioner Murphy
at one stage of the cross-eXamnauon'
and Connolly, quick to take advantage Oh
the least chance 10 return Mr. stancn-
fields badinage, asked in puzzled tone'
commissioned Commissioner? Com
missioner Murphy?
The tone as much as the remark ooth-
cred the lawyer apparently, and he
snapped out
yves. Commissioner Murphy the Leader
Of Tammany Hall. Charles F. Murphy
DO YOU take exception TO calling any one
commissioner?
"Oh. well. haven't heard him called
commissioner in a long time Connohy
answered easily, and the honors OF that
brief engagement rested with the witness
rather than with the lawyer.
Mr.. Kellogg suggested that Mr. Stanch-
held was wasting too much time in en-
Pertaining the galleries" and the JOSH
ing" Of Connolly stopped abruptly
LYMAN e. Warren, Connollys present
LAWYER. was examined briefly. telling sim
rlv the story of his call on Justice CO.
balsn when he got the $4,000 note to re-
turn 10 Connolly.
Connolly was excused from the stand
10 permit of Warren's examination, so
chat the LAWYER could return to the city.
connolly's cross-examinatiOn will be con-
tinued at the morning session tomorrow.
"Joshed" by Examiners.
Connolly's actual ordeal, so far as the
day sessions Of the inquiry were con-
cerned, came largely in the way in which
both Mr.. Stanchfield and some Of the
members of the committee "joshed' him.
This was particularly true Of the late
afternoon testimony. when MI Stanch-
eeld first. and then half dozen members
of the committee, made joking queries
with serious faces about his alleged cam
paign contributions.
II developed that in the mayoralty cam
paign of 1909, when William II. Hearst
was running on his Civic Alliance ticket
Connolly contributed" 500, but soon
after election he met L. ]. OReilly'
Hearst's secretary. and effected loan
OF 800. which Connolly admitted was
never repaid.
The witness assured Mr.. Stanchheld, In
spite of the laugh that went the rounds
AT this information. that there was aD-
solutely no connection between the con-
trihution and the loan. but the amounts
lust happened TO be the same"
DESPITE this and other 'Joshing,' how
ever the crcss-examination OF Connolly
during the afternoon session did not pro-
aura ANYTHING that in any way contra
Ato,.d the vital facts OF his direct evil