Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-08
Lie GiUen to Stern
: BY Mayor on Stand

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bring about harmony wrenever could"
the Mayor explained
Phrases from Mayor Smiths testi-
mony follows:
Mister Stern is the last man in the
world I would have any confidence in"
Icy Stern told me Judge Gordon and
himself wrote the Carey letter telling
me of conditions in the Fifth Ward"
Senator McNichol was the best friend
had in the world"
There is only one distinctly Ware
man in my cabinet. his name is Wilson.
Because OF his appointment have been
subject to all sorts of harassments."
t'Director Krusen was endorsed by
Senator McNicho. Director Twining
was endorsed by Mr.. McNichol. So
was Director Twining."
II was close, extremely so, with Sen
ator Penrose."
r With State Senator Edwin H. Vare
Congressman William S. Ware and Mayor
Smith as absorbed spectators, the de-
fense in the Fifth Ward conspiracy case
today unfolded it's direct charges of a
Penrose "frame-up to discred1 the
Mayor and the Wares.
The defense's trump card today was
Allen Olds Meyers, a Burns detective.
Isadore Stern, in February, 1917, Meyers
testified. said scheme was being
Matched to discredit Smith and the
Wares. Stern reiterated that statement
May %, 1917, in Washington, according
to Meyers.
Director of Public Safety William H.
Wilson and William j. Burns, the de-
tective, were also witnesses today for
the defense.
Wilson said he was informed in Feb
ruary of 1917 that a plot was brewing
to discredit Mayor Smith and the Wares.
His informant was Meyers the Burns
Agency operative.
The Wares, Burns testified. employed
his agency to get to the bottom Of the
supposed "frame-up' being engineered
by Penrose against the Wares.
Stern believed the Fifth Ward case
would duplicate the Lieutenant Becker
case in New York, Meyers asserted.
Stern was of the opinion that Mayor
Smiths conviction would make District
Attorney Rotan the biggest man, po-
litically, in Philadelphia. the detective
continued.
Mayor Smith delayed the opening of
the morning session by half hour. The
Mayor entered the courtroom at 1926
o'clock He was accompanied by w.
Freeland Kendrick, Receiver of Taxes.
and James Scarlet, the Mayors personal
counsel.
Senator Ware and Congressman Ware
seats next to William J. Burns, the de-
tective and two of his operatives, one of
them Allen Olds Meyers. the mysterious
newspaperman who posed as a newspa-
per man in alleged conversations with
Isadore Stern.
Before the Mayor arrived. Attorney
william A. Gray, chief counsel for the
defense, moved the withdrawal of q
Juror, because Of an article in a Phila
deIphia newspaper this morning. The
S article referred to d. Clarence Gibbo'
\ ney's testimony yesterday. The motor
was overruled.
Meyers, the Burns operative took the
stand and began a recital of his talk:
with Isadore Stern, who swore out tht
warrants for the Fifth Ward defendants
Meyers testified he met Isadore SterI
in Harrisburg in February, 1917, ano
was introduced to Stern by Boyd Ham
ilton, a Harrisburg newspaper man. hi
had a letter of introduction from Sen
ator Penrose to Stern.
Meyers said he first met Penrose II
the Capitol in Washington while con
ducting an Investigation for former Au
ditcr General Archibald v. Powell, Pen
rose did not say he was detective.
- Was to "Frame the Mayor"
- stern, Meyers testified. said in Febru
ary. 1917, that they had 1aheu W ee
the Governor" but that he and Pen
rose were trying to frame" Mayor Smitl
and discredit the Wares.
Meyers continued that he met Sterl
again on May 22, 1917, in a Washing
ton Cd. c. hotel. Stern reiterated nj
declaration to frame the Mayor ant
asked Meyers to get Penrose to hell
The witness, who said he posed as
newspaper man, confided the information
to Auditor General Powell. Powell IN
formed Director Wilson by telephone.
When the Burns Agency began Its In
vestigation of the Fifth Ward case
Meyers said. he was detailed on the case
stern told Meyers, the latter testified
IN. the Bellevue-Stratford on October
that he was being shadowed by tn
3 Burns men," -
'.rhs Mayor win get all that's comm
4 &im," stern said. At another TIM
1870 teetine1. stern aaid What Z