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should ascribe any Interior motives
u.s." Mr.. Duane said
Only A Bluff. Saws Chairman.


u.s." Mr.. Duane said.
Only a Bluff. Says Chairman.
"You know very we'll, Mr.. Banker,
retorted Thompson, "and every one else
knows that your books are no more
confidential than the books Of broker
or tradesman. Your lawyer knows u
this is nothing but bluff"
Then fairfield began 20 tax, say
! ing: 1--WE will test this matter out IN
the courts"---
"You sit down." shouted Thompson
you have no standing here. You are
here only by courtesy Of the State
Legislature. You've been concealing
things-it has been your attitude rignt
along. You say you have nothing 10
conceal-you have in your files letter
from George w. Perkins bearing on the
Mccall matter which you have refused
TO let US have"
How do you know-hsve you seen
! il ?" demanded fairfield.
Then Mr.. Morse was allowed TO ex-
plain about that matter, telling now ne
had gone to the correspondence clerk
for it and failed to get it.
This is very clever situation" said
Thompson.
THAT is a very unfair remark" said
fairfield.
"You sit down. will find you in
contempt if have the power" Thomp-
son shouted. you may leave here
you may go-that Is all"
Later Thompson announced that ne
/ had recalled his orders TO subpoena
the McCalls at once, having had con-
ference with fairfield, and that friend
I ~ relations had been established. He
said Mccall and his wife would be
/ subppnaed for Monday morning at 10
/ O'Clock.
/ Accountants Report.
Mr.. Morse. the accountant, filed with
/ the committee the following report OF
/ such part of the account Of Ella Cay
/ nor Mccall in the Bankers Trust
/ Company as he had been allowed TO
/ examine:
This account was opened March 8,
/ 1918, bv a deposit of 800. Regarding
! this. we find a notation in the bank
| saying that this was Edward f. Nc
Calls personal check on No. l03. This
1 is the clearing house number Of the
| Bankers Trust Company.
"You will note throughout this ac-
/ count that we have traced the larger
| deposits. Most of them that were not
/ the dividends on the 387 shares Of
Kings County Electric Light and
| Power Company stock were checks on
/ No. 103.
"This account seemed TO be a Mccall
/ household account, inasmuch as most
] of the Withdrawals or charges were in
/ small amounts, payments to various
| tradespeople. This proves that the
/ Mccall family, in part, subsisted on
/ the earnings Of the Kings County Elec-
/ trio Light and Power Company through
/ the dividend checks which were depos-
/ tied in this account"
Woods Ordeal Continues.
During such part of the days ses-
/ sion as was not taken up with the Nc
| Call accounts, Commissioner Robert
c. Wood spent an unpleasant time on
| the stand. His testimony had to do
chiefly with the way in which he had
/ Invested himself of his $4,000 face
value worth of holdings in the Ameri-
can Sanitary & Supply Company to
/ John A. Maher, for 81.
Maher was put on the stand and said
I he had met Wood in the hallway at
the Public Service Commission and
4 had agreed to buy back the shares for
ST. He said he sent the dollar few
/ days later with a letter. This letter
was put in evidence. All manner Of
/ questions were asked TO draw forth
/ something about that letter on which
4 TO base the inference that il was writ
/ ten recently, and not back in 1914, as
/ il purported Msher was asked TO make
a copy Of it and also to supply the
Commission with samples Of the let
ter paper on which he wrote it.
The letter, which was the bill Of
sale, bore no transfer stamp. Mr.. Wood
was also questioned in regard to his
divesting himself of his holdings in
the Northwestern Construction Com
pany. II was instructed TO appear Mon
4 day prepared 70 give the day of his be-
ing sworn in as a commissioner to de-
termine whether il was before or after
/ he gave up his Construction Company
/ interests. 1t was shown that the trans
/ fer stamps on the stock certificates
were still wet, but he said that was
I due TO the damp day.
/ 1t was also brought out that his
81 500 year stenographer has. been
absent six months, on full pay, in the
Adirondacks. He is dying from tu-
berculosis, Wood said. He said he
borrowed other stenographers to do
his work