The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1918-08-23
ABERNETHy
WILL NOT TELL
Where He Got the Money,
Had $46,5OO Paid Him
Through N. Y. Banks
NNrIICD LIE FADING 20TH
ANOTHER HEARING BOTH

New bern, AuB. Ao.-Shaiioo -
Abernathy, it appears from evidence
submitted here yesterday at the
hearing before Squire S. R. Street,
called for the purpose OF inqulrlhgl
into the amount of money spent py
Mr.. Abernathy in his campaign TO
secure the nomination for Congress
from the Third District, has MADE
S46.5OO representing interests that
paid him through New York banks.
According to figures from his
bank account given by Cashier Rea'
of the Peoples Bank, before COM
missioner Street yesterday, he spent
several hundred dollars in excess OF
this amount during the pediod from
January / to July l of this year.
The copy of the bank account be-
tween January and July included
other deposits than those represent
ed by checks drawn on the New
Work banks. Nevertheless, the larg'
er deposits, it was shown by the in"
formation furnished by the bank,
came through those banks.
Col. A. d. Ward, attorney for Col.
w. T. Dortch, did not press Mr.. Rea
for an answer when he asked who
was the drawee of the check Mr..
Alternately deposited. The cashier
had told Col. Ward privately that it
would embarrass his bank to give
the information and before he
would tell it in Commissioner
Streets inquiry, he would be ad-
| Judged in contempt of court. If the
information had to come, it would
have to be directed by a higher
court than the forum OF Commls-
sioner Street, who was commission
ed to take depositions.
The expenditures began in Febru-
airy, when Alternately opened his
campaign in earnest, and continued
through until July 10, when he eX-
pended a little better than $4,000
at one writing. There is no record
of where the checks went save the
cancelled vouchers themselves and
these have been returned to Mr.. Abb
ernathy by the bank.
Attorney d. f. Henderson, repre-
senting Mr. Alternately, insisted yes
! terday as he has done all along that
the deposits placed to his clients s
credit were fees accumulated in the
usual privileged business between
lawyer and client Any other law
yer, Henderson says, would have
done the same thing. Mr.. Hender-
sons view seems to be that legal
lights in the third district want to
get next to class of business that
pays so handsomely.
Another Hearing August 30
| When he saw that Abernathy
himself intended to make no answer
to any question asked him, each
time gracious enough to decline by
repeating the one phrase, Colonel
Ward decided to let the matter of
dispositions go over for a week. An
other hearing will be held here on
] August 80 and in the meantime Col
onel Dortch's lawyers will summon
others who are said to have partic-
ipated in the Alternately primary
disbursement.
Ward asked Abernathy questions
about his campaign expenditures
and sixty-eight times Mr.. Alternately
declined to depose. Just in the
same manner as IL he were getting
the answer he wanted, Colonel
Ward would put the questions, Mr..
, Henderson would register the OBJ
lection and Abernathy would re-
spond II respectfully decline to an
swer for the reasons set forth by
my counsel for me-" the automaton
process nearly tongue-tied the ex-
solicitor and his lawyer, but Colon
cl Ward persisted in getting the
siXty-eight in the record and having
The stenographer write each time
chat the court ordered the witness
to answewr.
All of the inquiries were address
ed to the Abernathy statement of
expenditures filed with the Secreta-
ry of the State and the clerk of the
ouse of Representatives. Mr.. Hen
derson first objected to the exami-
nation Of Mr.. Alternately by Notary
Public Street without a specific COM
mission SO to do. He raised the
point that Deputy Virtuvious Roys-
ter of Wake county had no power