Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1914-07-08
Ne NMAN'S TESTIMONY TO COMMITTEE.
He Sheds Crocodile Tears and no Character
Witness Is Reuulred

subcommittee OH Privileges ard
elections, Investigating the use Of
Senate committee paper to boost
The Gold Hill mine. that friends
IF John Shelton Williams, Gimp
roller tf the Currency, tried to
get control of his pr pe1ty after a
Government expert examined the
ore.
"Mr. Jennings asked me what
[ would take tor the control OF
10y mine," said Mr.. Newman.
This Statements aroused the SEN
ate committee.
"Who asked your" demanded
Senator Clapp.
GA friend of Mr.. Williams,
jennings, following an exanlna
tion of the mine by W. B. VIII.
liams aud Deer G-asty." said
Mr.. Newman.
"This was after the department.
had refused to recommend the re-
opening of the Ctalotte assay
Officer" Mr.. Newman was asked.
1T was after l had failed to
get it opened, was the answer.
Ccmpt2ller Williams and
George E. Roberts, director of
the mine, appearing before
the committee. Mr., Williams
told the committee Of Mr.. New
mans visit and enthuslasm over
his mine and the request for the
opening of the Charlotte assay
office. His only purpose, he de-
elared in sending Mr.. Dewey to
the Gold Hill mine was TO ascer.
tain whether or not it was advisa'
BILE to have Mr.. Jennings look
over the property. He said he
had arranged meeting
Between Messrs. Jennings and
Newman in bis office and had
called IN Mr.. Dewey to make
q Statements as to what he had
found.
Mr. Roberts testified that on.
his return from Gold Hill, Dr..
Dewey said the ore liz the mine
vas rich but the development did
not Justify the %reopening of the
Charlotte assay office. No Sena.
tors he said had asked that the
Office he reopened.
M. Newman broke down on the
stand and wept. He said that he
had lest his parents and a brother
fighting for the Gold Hill mines.
He told of his brother, Joe New
man, who, becoming discouraged
about the mine, blew himself to
pieces with sticks of dynamite.
FEARFUL STORY.
Washington, July 81 w. G..
Newman, promoter of a North
Carolina gold mine, told a Senate
investigating committee q fearful
story today about the use of eff
cial letter of the census and rules
committee for circulation of a
letter from a mining engineer
praising the property. He testi.
fed he asked Senator Overmsn's
stenographer to make copies of
the letter and that a clerk in the
census committee made others i.
Senators Overman and Chiffon,
chairman of those committe, knew
nothing of 1t, he said.
While Newman was telling the
story of his struggles to promote
the property he wept and once
scbs stopped him.
Newman said about 35 or 40
copies of the letter on Senate pa
per were. sent out but that they
were sent to his Personal friends
among the Gold Hill stockholders
None of them was used to boost
the stock, he protested.
The witness said that appear.
ance of the letters ON Senate sta
sionery sent the stock down from
rs to 5Ocents a share, although
the mining engineer reported the
Gold Hill property worth $50, 600
900
Nobody believed that state
ment," said Newman.
In a voice choked with en- otion
the promoter told the committee
Of early struggles of himself and
his brother, J. J. Newman: to de-
the Gold Hill mine.
"My brother saw things going
to pieces" he said, and took five
of dynamite and blew him
self into 10, 1000 pieces. He left .
letter saying his life's work was
He said North Carolina
was the richest State in the I'm.
ion. When 1 heard that I'd new.
er let go that property until 1
proved his statement or went the
way he went"
Newman said he sent some of
the ore from the mine to John
IN Williams, then Assistant
of the TFesury. asked
that the Charlotte, N. c., Mutt
be reopened SO that the gold
could b turned into cash readily.
said Mr.. Williams told him he
had no authority to open the mint
but he had a treasury expert to
over the niue.
Newman frequently used the
Presidents room behind the Sen.
ate chamber, be said for his con-
ferenoes about the mine, but de-