Norwich bulletin., 1917-01-31
Indications That
 There Was a Leak
BROUGHT TO LIGHT IN HEARING
 AT NEW YORK YESTERDAY
SENSATIONAL MESSAGES
Accurate Forecast of Presidents Peace Note Was Sent to Brokers Three Hours Before Copies Were Handed to Newspaper Men-Baruch Made $47e, 16s.

Made $4I6, 168.
 | New York, Jan. 30.-From the files
 Of a Wall Street broker house, con- 1 greSsional inquiSitors today brought l to light private and confidential tele- grams regarded in some quarters as l definitely indicating that there was a
 leak" on President Wilson's recent
 peace note.
 Sensational Telegram. | The most sensational telegram. con- taining brief but remarkably ac-
 curate forecast of the contents of the
 note, was sent by E.. F. Hutton & Co.,, one of the largest brokerage houses | in the Street, over it's private wires to 1 scores of other brokers with whom it did business throughout the country, on the afternoon of December 20, more
 than three hours before the first copies of the note were handed to newspaper men by Secretary of State Lansing.
 Note Sent Abroad in Code. At the time the Hutton message was sent, according to the testimony of | Secretary Lansing before the commit I tee in Washington, no one in this this country save persons connected with the preparation and despatch of the note had as much information re- garding its contents as the message | revealed The note previously hsA been sent abroad in code. Publication l of the note followed transmission of the Hutton message to various brok- | CTS by more than ten hours. Message Missing. Information on" which the message to brokers was based, Edward F. Hut ton, head of the firm, testified, came in another message, now missing, & Co, a Washington brokerage house, in which R. w. Boiling, a brother-in- law of President Wilson, is a partner. Connolly was declared by Hutton to be hastening to New York tonight to appear before the committee tomor- row.
 information Based on Runnor. Hutton testified that his under standing was that zGOnnellyss ziafoFuaaz ' ton regarding the note was based on rumor Indicative that other brols- craze concerns were in possession of similar information, Hutton said, was another message he produced which Clement, Curtis & Company of Chica- go, sent his house prior to Connelly'S first message referring to a statement to be issued by the state department intended to promote peace prospects," This message contained no details. Certain members of the committee, however, privately expressed convic- tion that the person who originally supplied the information on which Connelly's msSion message was based,
 
 obtained an excellent resume of it.
 Says Someone Read the Note.
 Some one read the noteI' Repre- sentative Campbell of Kansas, rank ing republican member of the com mittee, emphatically declared after the close of the hearing.
 Chairman Henry and Sherman L. Whipple, counsel to the committee, decined to express any views on the situation.
 To Probe Connolly Information
 No effort will be spared. Whipple announced, to throw the fullest light on the origin and transmission of the sage from Washington to E. F. Hut ton and Company and the Subse- Quent message sent by them to their correspondents. The latter message, George g. Ellis, Jr., a member of the firm, who is now i'll in Georgia, he said. Hutton also requested the com mittee not to call Ellis to New York if it could be avoided
 Telegraph Operators to be Questioned.
 Chairman Henry, determined to have Ellis testify, said he would probably would be examined next week in Washington. Telegraph operators and others wh o had to do with the trans interrogated. Other members of the Connolly firm also probably will be called. MT. Boiling already has testi- fled at the Washington hearing that he had nothing to do with a leak" of any kind.
 Mir. Bolling's connection with the Connolly firm was the subject of much interrogation by Whipple dur ing his examination of Hutton, when the broker first took the stand. Hut ton told of Connolly ealing on him five or six months ago, informing him that the firm of F. A. Connolly and Com pany was to be organized with Boil ing as one of the partners and asking if the Hutton firm would become it's New York correspondent. Hutton said the fact that Boiling was to be a member of the firm had made no inn pression upon him. He denied that Connolly had said anything of any expectation of getting high class customers through Bollings rela- tionship to the president. The Con- nelly account he said, however, had been very attractive"
 Had Hutton Produce Messages.
 whipple then had Hutton produce messages which had gone over the firms private wires during the peace period' in the stock market and which he had been commanded to read was the Clement, Curtis & Co. telegram, marked "conf1dential,55 tim ed 12:4S o'clock eastern time. which was about an hour and quarter after Secretary Lansing had told the news paper men in Washington that a Eote was coming from the president.
 T hear that state department will issue statement today regarding economic conditions European war as affecting neutrals," the Clement mes sage said. Intended to promote peace What you think of this and how are you on ocks?-Clem- ent."
 The next was Hutton's reply to this, | timed 1:14 D. m.. which read:
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