The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-02-02
FIXING TIME OF RECEIPT OF
BOILING TELEGRAMS
E. F. Hutton Testified That Messages
Were Received Between 1857 and
1:15 Giving Information That State
Department Expected to Issue Peace
Statement; More Witnesses Are to Be
Summoned Before House Committee
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ASSOCIATED PreSS DlSp0 IN
New York, January 31.-More light
on the kilograms sent over the E.
F. Hutton company wires, December
20, was sought by Counsel Whipple
from Hutton when the "leak" hear
ing, was resumed today. Whipple
tried to find out just when the tel
egram from F. A. Connolly & Co.,
which r. w. Boiling, brother law
of President Wilson, received in
the Hutton office. Attention was
called to the time the confidential
telegram from the Clement, Curtis
company, Chicago, was received.
1913 p. NJ, with the intimation that
the peace statement was forthcom-
a new telegram sent out by the firm
at 12:57 p. M, "eading:
Reports have it that the state de-
partment will issue a statement to-
day intended to promote peace pros
pects.'
The message was signed by a tel
egraph operator named Toomey, who
sometimes sends out messages on his
own initiative, Hutton testified.
The committee ordered A. B. Ell
lis, Jr., of the Hutton firm, whose
name was signed to 154 kilograms
giving resume of the peace note,
summoned. Hutton finally fixed the
time of the receipt of the Connolly
message at betweenn 1887 and lis
Hutton said that although in the
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presidents note at least two hours
before the market closed December
20, neither he nor any of his eight
partners took advantage of it.
F. A. Connolly, who is expected to
take the stand later, denied on his
arrival from Washington, that the
information came through R. w.
Boiling, the Presidents brother in
law, a member of his firm.
Brokers Rushed Tetenrams.
New York, Jan. 31.-From the files
of Wall street brokerage house con.
gressional inquisitors brought to light
private and confidential kilograms re.
garded by several members of the
house committee as definitely irldicat.
ing that there was leak" on Presi.
dent Wilson's peace note.
The most sensational telegram, con.
tanning brief but remarkably accu-
rate forecast of the contents of the
note, was sent by E. F. Hutton &
Co., one of the largest brokerage
houses in the street, over its private
wires to scores of other brokers with
whom it did business throughout the
country.
1t was sent on the afternoon of Dec
20, more than three hours before the
first copies of the note were handed
to newspaper men by Secretary Lam
sing.
At the time the Hutton message was
sent, according to the testimony of
Secretary Lansing before the commit
tee in Washington, no one in this
country save persons connected with
the preparation and dispatch of the
note had as much information regard
ing it's contents as the message re-
vealed. The note previously had been
sent abroad in CODE Publication of
the note followed transmission of the
Hutton message to various brokers
by more than ten hours
Information on which the message
to brokers was based, Mr.. Hutton,
head of the firm, testified, came in
another message, now missing, from
F. A. Connolly, of F. A. Connolly & |
Co., Washington brokerage house, in
which R. w. Boiling, brother-in-law
of President Wilson, is partner.
Certain members of the committee
privately expressed conviction that the
person who originally supplied the
information on which Connelly's miss
ing message was based either had
read the presidents note or obtained
an excellent resume of it.
Some one read the motel" Repre-
sentative Campbell of Kansas, rank !
ing Republican member of the COM
mittee, emphatically declared after the
close Of the hearing.