Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-02-26
PRETTY GIRL WITNESS
NSLUSH PROBE KNOWS
NOTHING, SAYS MOTHER
Miss Katherine Gallagher, kid
mapped in Pittsburgh Brew
ers' Inquiry, Was Only
Telephone Girl in Office
WILL TESTIFY AGAIN

The secrets OF the Pennsylvania Brew
ere' Association in the Federal "slush
fund" Investigation are not locked In the
bosom" of Miss Katherine Gallagher. Of
this city the pretty 1s-year-old stenog-
rapher. whose kidnapping" at Pittsburgh
while under subpoena may result In ac-
tion by the Government against tamper-
ing with witnesses.
This Information was given today by
the young woman's mother. Mrs Charles
r. Gallagher, of 4i23 Terrace street, Rox.
borough
my daughter is not employed by the
Pennsylvania Brewers Association, but
by the Philadelphia Lager Beer Dealers
Association, which has headquarters In
the same offices in the Land Title Build.
ing" Mrs Gallagher said. "I cannot un-
derstand why the Government should sub.
poena her for l am sure she can be of
no assistance in the investigation. She
Is Strictly not a stenographer. and did
not have charge of any correspondence, as
they suppose. Her duties were mainly to
answer the telephone"
Asked her opinion on temperance Mrs.
Gallagher said she had no objection to
liquor III It was used properly"
MISS GALLAGHER ON VISIT.
Miss Gallagher who was to return to
the city today. changed her plans. Her
mother said she supposed she would go
TO Erie to visit her grandfather, James
II. Murphy, over Sunday, and return to
Pittsburgh to testify before the Federal
Grand Jury when the hearing is resumed
Monday
She did not comment on the alleged
kidnapping OF her daughter by James
p Mulvihill, leader of the State liquor
forces yesterday, which may result in
action by United States Attorney Il.
Lowry Humes. under the penal code COW
.tNl, I,st
hill. II is said. took the girl and her father
from their train, and detained them in
an attorneys office in Pittsburgh for an
hour before Miss Gallagher appeared to
testify.
ETTLA CAUSES SURPRISE.
The kidnapping" occupied most Of the
Grand Iury's attention yesterday. Con-
siderable interest was caused by the APP
pearance OF Charles F. Ettla, of this city
secretary of the Pennsylvania Brewers
Association whom the court suspected of
feigning Illness when 1t issued bench
warrant for him. He looked i'll and was
not accused of contempt of court.
Besides Ettla and Miss Gallagher. A.
W. BroclSmeyer. secretary to Edward A.
Schmidt, treasurer of the Pennsylvania
Brewers Association. appeared before the
Grand Jury.
Almost taking the breath of counsel for
the brewery associations, Federal Prose-
cutor Humes appeared before Judge W. II.
s. Thomson in the United States District
Court, at the time fixed for final argu-
ments yesterday on the contempt proceed
ings against John Gardiner, president, and
Edward A. Schmidt, treasurer of the
Pennsylvania Brewers Association. Phila-
delphians. and Gustav w Lembeck. OF
Jersey City treasurer of the United States
Brewers Association, and asked post
ponement until next week.
HEARING ON TUESDAY.
Hugh F. Fox. of New York city, secre-
tary OF the United Brewers Association,
was committed to Jail for contempt on
Wednesday evening and released on "a
writ OF habeas corpus on Thursday mora
Ing. Argument on the writ was set for
next Tuesday morning.
Judge Thomson fixed next Friday
morning at 10 o'clock for arguments on
all four witnesses accused OF contempt
in failing to produce records.
Humes then proposed that counsel
agree to permit representative of the
Department of Justice access to files in
the offices OF the United States Brewers
Association in New York city and Treas
nrer Lembecks office in Jersey City, the
authorization to be dispatched at once
by telegraph.
The Governments request was fatty |
turned down.
NEARED COLLAPSE.
Miss Gallagher was before the Grand |
Jury an hour and half. or longer than |
any witness yet called. She first appeared |
in the morning and was recalled in the |
late afternoon, the last time for ques-
tioning on the alleged kidnapping by |
Mulyihill
After her long ordeal in the morning |
the girl emerged weeping copiously and |
bordering on collapse. She went to din |
ner with Humes and came back her trim |
self again. She was entirely self.pos- |
sessed when she entered and left the |
Grand Jury room in the afternoon.
J. p. Mulvihill was held all day at the |
Federal Building, but was not called into |
the Grand Jury room.
Miss Gallagher is the second witness |
before the Grand Jury Mulvihill talked to. |
The other was W. ]. Damn, a young |
tailor, questioned on an alleged letter by |
Mulvihill paying somebody $4,000.