Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-02-14
CORE to TELL HIS
SIDE Of THE STORY
BLIND SENATOR EXPECTED TO
TAKE THE STAND EAItiA
TODAY.
Defense SCORED HEAVILY
Introduce Evidence That Tends 10
Show the Hotel Affair Was
Frame Up"

OKLAHOMA CITY. okla, Feb. lS.
United States Senator 7. p. Gore
will take the stand Saturday and give
Testimony in his own defense in the
$4,000 damage suit instituted against
him I'm district court here by Mrs.
Minnie Il. Bond, according to Cores
counsel
Announcement that Senator Gore
will testify Saturday indicates that the
case is nearing close and that a
verdict Of the jury may be expected
during the first part Of the coming
week.
When court closed this evening, j.
VIII Laws, local attorney, had Just
finished testifying for Senator Gore
Laws admitted that at present his
application for an appointment as
probate attorney in the federal ciVll
service is pending lie said that ne
VAS I'm Washington at the time or the
hotel incident and that he stayed at
that hotel for four days and tre-
ouenly saw Mrs Bond, Jim Jacobs
T e. Robertson, Kirby Fitzpatrick
i'm conference both before and atter
the trouble
Laws testified that DR., j. II. carp
told him that he had drunk beer III
n cafe with Mrs. Bond. This part OF
Laws testimony, in direct contradic-
tion with the testimony of Dr. carp
who while on the witness stand Thurs
day denied that he had drunk beer
with Mrs. Bond. Mrs. Bond herself.
while on the stand said she did not
remember ever having drunk beer
with carp, but was not certain.
Laws said that he had hopes OF
receiving his appointment In the civil
service
He said that he was told by Rod
ertson Gore is drunk with power
but wen pull him down off his high
perch yet"
Laws denied that he was trying
TO get into Senator Cores drinking
cellar"
w. r. Lung, Of Wellston, okla, tes-
tilted that he was In Washington
about the time of the trouble and
that while there he talked with T. e.
Robertson who said to him: Il would
have landed r. A. Rogers as secre-
tary OF the interior If It had not been
for Gore"
Lung said that he Is not an APP
plicant for any office at present nor
was he an applicant for any ONCE
before the episode. He said that after
he heard OF the Bond-Gore trouble
he notified Senator Gore Of what Rob
ertson had said. When asked why
he had taken the initiative in the
matter he replied:
'I did lust what / think any good
American citizen should do when he
has heard such statement about a
United States senator or public citi-
zen"
Smith Chambers, editor of the Ton
kawa Chieftain and postmaster OF
Tonkawa. testified in Cores behalf
and said that he was In Washington
March "a, at the time Of the alleged
occurrence and was present during
many conversations participated In by
Jacobs, Fitzpatrick and j. f. Murray
and Robertson. He said that he was
in Washington at the time In fur-
therance Of his application for the
Tonkawa post Office and was present
at a conference when Robertson had
n bundle of letters and said that il
the United States senate, the attor-
ney and the district attorney failed to
take up the Gore charges, that the
matter could be laid before a wom-
ans organization of Oklahoma City
Chambers quoted McMurray as saying
that he knew several women ir
Washington who might be induced tc
take the matter up.
On cross examination Chambers
said he obtained his appointment in
August and that he did not attribute
his appointment to Senator Cores In
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