New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-08
WHITMAN WARNED
IN GRAFT INQUIRY
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that leaves $3.50 unaccounted for.
The District Attorney obtained the
original copy of the telegram signed
M" from Syracuse, which Hennessy
introduced at the hearing on THURSDAY.
and while it is understood that the
original showed only an M sigma
ture, Whitman's detective who went u
Syracuse on the case is said to have re-
ported that the receiving clerk whom
he subpenaed will support Hennessy
version of the telegram.
Stoddard as Witness.
It is expected that Hennessy will be
further supported at the next session
Of the inquiry on Tuesday by Henry H.
Stoddard, who will corroborate every
thing Hennessy testified to with regard
to the graft investigation fund raised
to keep Hennessy's work going after
the Tammany Legislature cut off sui
zers contingent fund.
Mr.. Stoddard issued a statement yes
terday in which he supported Hennessy
in every word of his testimony. He
explained that because of the desire or
the man who gave the $500 to Hen
messy, that his name should not be
mentioned, he had not known that Nc
CURE was that contributor until Nc
CURE himself testified TO it on the
stand
Former Governor SulZer also came TO
the support OF his chief investigator
when McGuires testimony was shown
to him.
Mcclure has a thorough knowledge
OF the contracts given out by the state
TO the various contractors, and he fur
nished the leads for the Hennessy in
vestigation into graft in the Highway
Department" said Sulzer. Mcclure
is trying TO lie out of these things now
because he is afraid Of the contractors
and because Hennessy and l are not in
power TO back him up. Mcclure was
friend Of mine before this investiga-
ton and he furnished most OF the ma
terial on which Hennessy based his In
vestigations Of the operations of the
contractors
| Mr.. Sulzer said that McGuire's $500
contribution to the Hennessy investi-
CATION had been entirely voluntary.
John A. Hennessy will have confer
ence with Governor Glynn in Albany
Monday afternoon, at which it is eX-
pected Hennessy will go over with The
Governor the material which he has put
before Chief Magistrate McAdoo in the
John Doe" inquiry here.
Anti Murphy Men to Aid.
Governor Glynns interest in the mat
| ter, together with the fact that min
utes of the proceedings will be for
warded regularly TO Attorney General
| Carmody, makes it apparent that the
state administration will be ready to
| follow up any leads developed here
which tend TO show any criminal or
questionable acts committed outside OF
this county.
Taken into consideration with the
fact that several upstate Democratic
| leaders who have been known as
Murphy lieutenants" have been over
turned in the last primaries, and the
additional fact that there appears 70
| be a growing disaffection among the
leaders who have been allies OF
Murphy, Glynn's stand in the matter
| is considered significant, both from the
political point of view and from the in
vestigation angle.
The new anti-Murphy leader in Erie,
Henry Z. Burgard, who defeated Will
lam II. Fitzpatrick; Milton Gibbs. the
/ leader who overturned Thomas w.
| Finucane, in Monroe, and men like Jo-
seph Murphy, of Troy; Stephen Ryan
OF Chenango. and Thomas Mott Os-
! borne, OF Cayuga, are all anxious to
/ see Whitman, Glynn, Carmody or any
one else expose the Tammany dealings
with contractors, and Whitman be-
lieves that their influence may bring
many contractors around to the point
where they will come forward and
testify freely.
The District Attorney also believes
that the somewhat disgrunted admis-
sions of Mcclure, whose family has al
ways been politically strong in Oman
daga, can be considered a straw show
ing what way the upstate political
wind is blowing with reference TO the
| inquiry.
Dispatches from Tribune correspondents
in various parts OF the state relative "a
McGuire's testimony of small sandbag-
| ging" which were received Yesterday in