New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-13
"Wolf" a Hare for
Hounds of Wall
Street, He Says
Lamar Tells Jury He Was
a Victim of Trusts
Hate
Rintelen May Testify
Accusations of Associate May
Force Kaiscr's Agent
to the Stand

David Lamar. as frank wolf as ever
denncd in Wall Street, held jury
spellbound in the United States DIS
trict Court while he dscoursed on n
nance. clergymen, German plots, states
men and the implacable hatred OF
money lords The burden Of his Ia
ment was that the wolf had played me
hare for the Wall Street hounds.
Albert Massey, counsel for Hans Ein-
tclen. admitted that the testimony
given by Lamar in his own defence
might force h IN to put Rintelcn on the
stand.
+ II was the Rev. Thomas Cunning Hall,
/ professor Of Christian Ethics in Union
| Theological Seminary, Lamar said, who
introduced him to Rintelen, in May,
1915, soon after Rintelen arrived with
German gold with which to put stop
to munitions shipments TO the Allies.
Commissioner Harlan and Secretary
McGinty of the Interstate Commerce
! Commission have been subppnaed, &C
cording to Washington dispatches.
! Through them the prosecution hopes to
/ show that Lamar's connection with the
/ charges against the Steel Corporation
could not have inspired the present
prosecution. Some of the other men
whose names were freely mentioned in
/ Lamar's rambling testimony have been
| in their graves for years. II the at
do 70 q
( the trial may be delayed for days.
Lamar Jaunty on Stand
! Lamar assumed a jaunty air as he
| took the stand. He described himself
! as an operator in stocks, a calling he
/ professed 10 have followed for twenty
| FIVE years. Immediately thereafter he
| brought in the name of DR.. Hall, say
/ ing the latter telephoned him, and on
| his calling on the theologian was sur
prised to hear that he was going to
meet Captain Rntelen-whom he did
! not know and whose connections he was
NOS then aware Of.
CDR. Hall told me that | would re-
ceive sum of money from Captain
/ Rintelen," said Lamar. This money,
Lamar declared. was to be used in
fighting the Morgan interests and
others associated with the manufacture
/ and sale of munitions.
J In the course Of his story, ended
abruptly by adjournment, Lamar de-
clared his troubles started after he
was publicly snubbed by the late J. p.
Morgan. He told the jury that he was
a friend of the fnancier, and also of
; Russell Sage, and had patched up a
quarrel between the two. His alleged
} friendship with Mr.. Morgan was broken
/ off through the Vaccinations of Mr..
Morgan's partners, Lamar declared.
Mr. Morgan, he said, informed him
/ that his partners objected to him as
sociating with the wolf" and sug-
/ gested that their conferences there
/ after would have to be in Mr.. Morgan's
! home or Mr.. Morgan's library.
( wolf Showed His Fangs
/ Lamar said he turned down the prop
osition. And then, when Mr. Morgan
followed this up by not noticing him
when he met him on the street, the
wolf" showed his fangs. Or, as the
wolf put it:
az resented that. as | did his DELHI
crate cutting OF me in Wall Street.
But | was The last to draw my sword
and resolved l would be the last to
| sheathe it,"
since, and that's why he is now con-
Wet in Atlanta prisor-so he would
have the jury infer.
Drags in Noted Mems Names
Then the wolf dragged in other
names Of prominent men, naming Colo
mel Roosevelt. Boies Penrose, tie late
Senator Foraker, Governor Stanley of
Kentucky, Senator La Toilette, Benja-
min B. Odell and John Mitchell.
Your honor" finally nterposed
John Lord O'Brian, 1--WE object to the
naming of these men, some of whom
we can't call and some of whom are
dead"
Never mind about that retorted
Lamar's counsel. Eve have subpenaes
out for some of them" Just which
ones, he did not say.
Lamar declared that after his talk
with Dr. Hall, in which he informed
DR.. Hall Of his various alleged activ-
ties, thus getting before the jury
picture Of himself as a trust fighter,
he said he formed n working combina-
tion with Herman Schulteis and Henry
! b. Martin, two of the defendants.
Testimony for Lamar
II. Martin Williams, reading clerk
of the House of Representatives, called
10 testify in Lamar's behalf, told of
the meeting in Washington on July
81, 1915, which was attended by Blu
chanan and Fowler and other defend
ants. and which led to the formation
of Labor's National Peace Council.
lie declared that Fowler and Blu
chanan. thror oh their advocacy of
peace and labor's cause, became lead
He waXed so enthusiastic about the
Washington meeting and the motives
of those promoting il. that the court
admonished him TO desst.
Rah;ec Morcb and Ride