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. SHIP BRIBE STORY
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ne was going 10 take care OF me- l
told him would accept nothing"
Sands mentioned the $500 he still
owed him, Mr.. Boiling said. and pay
tnant was eventually made. Mr.. Boil
ling named dates upon which the $500
was paid In installments and stated
that on May 21. 1918. he borrowed $500
9FOEn Sands, which he repaid with In
terest on July IA, 1919.
TELLssoF ANONYMOUS THREAT
sof~ BY MAIL.
~of the $4,000 which Mr.. Sands
Gays wsa5 paid for procuring contracts
] never heard until II was mentioned
IN anonymous letters, coupled with
threats that unless something was
done to stop the proceedings OF the
Department of Justice against Mr..
Sands, my name would be brought into
st. Upon the receipt Of these letters,
! personally reported the matter to
the Department Of Justice, requesting
that an Investigation be made of my
transactions with Mr.. Sands.
II never, by word or deed, tried in
any way to assist the Providence En-
cheering Corporation or any other
company to procure contract.
'Regarding the testimony given be-
fore the committee by Benjamin f.
Fuller. who has been indicted for
forging and uttering and sentenced
to the penitentiary for four years, in
which he states that Mr.. Sands gave
me check in his presence, beg to
say that his statement is absolutely
and undualihedly false. 1 therefore
most urgently request the committee
to require Nj. Sands to Immediately
produce all Of his checks made to me
since Jan. 1, 1918"
Mr.. Boiling said that the commit
tee would find available an anony-
nous letter addressed to w. G. Nc
Adoo, former Secretary of the Treas
ury, and all other records in con-
nection. with the affair.
BoLLING'S STORY OF LOSSES
AS A BROKER.
Mr.. Boiling testified to his entrance
in October, 1916, to the brokerage
- firm OF +. A. Connolly & Co. in
Washington. This was the firm
named in the Lawson leak scandal
and from which Mr.. Boiling retired
after alleged facts connected with
the reported leak Of the Presidents
peace note had had been published
Sands, his wife and daughter all had
accounts with the brokerage firm,
although probably under names other
! than their own, the witness said.
1t was through Sands, the witness
said. that a $4,000 loan was nego-
tiated by the firm to aid In purco as
q ing New York Stock Exchange seat,
gand Sands was to have received a
4 SO, 900 commission for occurring the
loan. Mr.. Boiling dio not know
/ whether the Commission ever was
paid. He testified that Sands still
| owes Boiling & Todd $500 on the old
building transaction.
Mr.. Boiling declared that when he
retired from the firm of +. A. Con-
molly g. Co. ne lost his $4,000 in
vested in the business and had to
put up $1,000 TO square his indebted
ness. Referring in this connection to
the report that he had made mil
lion" through the Lawson leak" he
said:
"The million I made cost me
Boiling borrowed $500 from
4 Sands, and testified he paid it by
a - 9rtgaging his wife's house for
$500, paying Sands total of
j $7514.99 for principal and interest.
NEVER~REcEIVED A CHECK FOR
$$1eoo FROM SANDS.
Mr.. Boiling denied empha ticalIy
that in, his dealings with Sands he
ever had received from his a che ok Of
1880 for any purpose or reason
whatever.
He. said that Sands, following his
Indictment under tn Fed raj bank
ing laws for permitting a customer
to oVerdraw hts account at the Conn
mo-cial National Bank, OF which
Sands was Wire President and
cashier. visited the Boiling home and