Evening star., 1920-02-06
TRACING Of FUNDS
IS CONTINUED IN
NEWBERRY TRIAL
Prosecution Claims Use of
More Than $2O0,OO Al
ready Proved.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. February
e.-Testimony relating to funds de-
posted or withdrawn by members of
Senator Truman II. Newberrys cam
paign committee was introduced by
the government again today in the
election conspiracy trial in which the
senator and 122 of his assistants are
defendants.
At the conclusion of yesterdays ses-
sion Frank c. Daley, special prose
cutor, claimed that so far the
prosecution had shown the use of
more than 100000 in the Newberry
campaign. whereas. he declared, $3.50
was the lawful maximum. Attorneys
for the defense maintain that the
statute governs only the amount spent
by the candidate and does not place
a limit upon expenditures by his sup
porters.
With completion of this line of tes-
timony the government was expected
TO call Chase s. Osborn, former Gov
ernor of Michigan and Senator New
berry's opponent at the 1918 primary.
Osborn was one of the first witnesses
before the federal grand jury which
returned the indictments in the case
last November.
Former House Clerk Testifies.
Pearl Gilbert. secretary to Con-
greSSman Gilbert o. Currie. and for
mer financial clerk in the state house
of representatives. testified at the
start of today's session. She told of
being hired by Paul King and being
paid $50 week by b. Frank Emery.
She said from late June, 1918. to
August she worked at the home of
Fred c. Martindale, writing Newberry
campaign letters. While there En-
cry sometimes brought her pay to the
Martindale home, she said. Miss Gill
bert remembered once calling Tru-
I.~k,
telephone for King at some time
after the August % primary.
Next she remembered of tele-
gram to Newberry. the substance Of
which was: Don't worry; everything
is all right"
She was not cross-examined.
Margaret Simmons of Grand Rapids
went to work in the local headquar-
ters about August 1. She said George
Welsh offered her SIS week and
Charles Floyd paid her. She wrote
form letters.
Deposits of $i7S,S57 shown.
Yesterdays testimony of a Grand
Rapids bank cashier gave the total
deposits IN the account of Charles
Floyd. in charge of Grand Rapids
headquarters. as S11.2S0. Detroit
bankers testified that S5.0S3 was de-
posted in the account of Paul Fl.
King, chairman" and that the ac-
count of "the Truman III. Newberry
senatorial committee" showed total
deposits of S1IS,S51.
In addition it was brought out that
Frank W. Blair. president of the
United Trust Company of Detroit and
treasurer of the Newberry campaign
randled S1S.956 through his bank. The
institutions records showed that all
this money had been checked against
in favor of the Truman Fl. Newberry
senatorial committee account in the
other bank.
While on the subject of the COM
mittee account, Judge w. Fl. Eich
horn. for the government. had Albert
r. Moore of the Commonwealth Fed
eral Savings Bank of Detroit read
records showing deposits of $4,000
each on August % and August 26 of
the campaign year Later, with John
" Stalker, vice president of the
Union Trust Company, on the stand.
he adduced testimony that the latter
institutions records indicated trans
fer of $4,000 to the other account on
each of those days, there being four
checks of $1,000 each drawn on those
dates.