The Cairo bulletin., 1913-06-28
REVEALS
MAN IN PLOT
TO bLACKMA |

nent New Yorker, whose name was
not disclosed, called up Lewis Cass
Ledyard of Counsel for the Union
/ Pacific over the telephone several
times since last January, claimed
that he had influence with leading
House Democrats and urging Mr..
Ledyard to follow certain sugges-
tions If he would get the Union Pa
cific and its a lied companies out OF
its litigious entanglements with the
government.
This information was volunteered
by Representative A. Mitchell Pal
mer of Pennsylvania to the Senate
lobby committe which tonight con-
tinued its inquiry into the black
mail charge of Judge Lovett.
/ 0verman Holds Secret.
& The committee now has at least
the substance of all said to Mr..
Ledyard in that connection in the
form OF a letter, also supplied by
! Mr.. Palmer. This letter is believed
to contain the name of the "big un-
/ known" In question, but Chairman
0yerman carried the secret out in
, his inside coat pocket. He refused
| to read the contents OF the letter or
Mr.. Palmer's reply, which was also
| furnished the committee by Mr..
j Palmer.
After brief executive session,
held just prior to the production Of
these letters, the committee decided
f, not to press the witness to give pub
! licly the name of the person in
question but to let Mr.. Ledyard de-
tail the whole story on the witness
stand at the nextt session of the
committee.
1t was learned that David Lamar
of New York had been invited" by
i telephone to appear before the com
mittee< Should he find it inconven-
lent to accept this Invitation
which heretofore has served the pur-
pose Of a subpoena In this investiga-
tioiR Ii II understooa arcsplar sinh
poena will be issued
Testimony a Sensation.
The testimony of Palmer caused
tensencss among the spectators
unrivaled even by the testimony OF
Judge Robert S. Lovett last night.
The operation of band of con-
spirators upon mulcting Wall street
through the impersonation of ma
tional legislators was in part dis
closed by Representative Mitchell
Palmer OF Pennsylvania before the
Oyerman lobby Investigating lcom-
mittee tonight.
Palmer, who volunteered his tes-
timony after Representative y. j.
Rioran of New York had been heard,
stated that his name as well as
Riordans had been used as peg
upon which to hang promises and
threats conveyed to New York via
telephone by some mysterious per-
son.
The conversations of this imper-
senator, said Palmer, touched upon
matters affecting the banking inter-
ests only The Union Paciiic-South-
ern Pacific dissolution suit, the Pujo
money trust investigation and the
enactment OF currency legislation
were some of the legislative matters
which the conspirstors are alleged
to have held in their hands subject
to sale
Says Name Was Used
Palmer said the most of the CON
versation in which his name was
used were directed TO Lewis Cass
Ledyard. a New York lawyer affili-
ated with Wall street Ledyard, he
said, had traced the telephone ca Is
to their source and had ascertained
the identity of the impersonator.
Ledyard was said by Palmer to
have made an engagement with the
mysterious Mr.. Palmer" to have a
representative call upon him who
proved to be Edward Lautterbach,
the New York lawyer whom Judge
Robert S. Lovett. head of the Union
Pacific, named yesterday as having
been urged upon his as counsel be-
cause of his influence with the De-
partment of Justice"
Lauerbach on Stand.
Lauterbach denied all knowledge
of the acquaintance of the man
who impersonated Riordsn and Pal.
mer, and was inclined to lay the
blame for his p-edicament at the
door of the money trust. which he
said he offended by his affiliation
with David Lamar, New York
stock speculator. His statement was
long and rambling.
Riordan denied that he had au-
thorized the use of his name in
e'ephonic conversations with Judge
Lovett, or that he had himself tele-
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