Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-02-13
EXPENDITURES ARE
BEING PROBED IN
NEWBERRY HEARING
More Speed Is Urged by
Judge SeSsionS-Twenty-
One Witnesses Placed on
Stand Yesterday

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Feb. H.
More speed was called for today in
the Newberry trial by Judge Ses-
sions. The court warned attorneys
they must get faster action in exs
animation of witnesses. FL
Twenty-Five witnesses were exam-
ined yesterday, the largest number
heard in one day during the trial
Approximately one hundred have tes-
titled. do. E'i
The government today shifted it's
course from pursuance of the. fraud
angle to expenditures in the 1918
campaign by the Newberry organiza-
tion. Many minor witnesses were to
testify regarding sums spent for va
rfous purposes to procure the cleo
ton of Trum an H. Newberry to the
United States senate. A
Publicity Fund $4,000
c. R. Higbee, Of Benton Harbor,
started proceedings in the Newberry
elections conspiracy trial this morn
ing with additional direct testimony.
Higbee, who was clerk of the grand
jury which returned the indict-
ments last fall, related his recollec-
ton Of the testimony before that
body OF James e. HaslIfns of How
ard City. He said Haskins was en-
ployed in the Newberry publicity de-
rartment at $45 a week and expenses.
Higbee said Haskins described the
publicity and advertising work. The
testimony was that the publicity APP
preparation was $4,000 at the
/ start but was exceeded later.
Haskins was quoted as saying he
understood the campaign was to be
principally publicity affair, but
later he learned a good deal of
money, was being used.
The testimony quoted Haskins as
saying that William Nickel, who
pretended 20 be working for Helme
was really a Newberry emp1oye."
That t.s1Kilhon Dollars"
Attorney George E. Nichols, cross
examining, switched to yesterdays
testimony regarding Roman r.
Glocheski's grand Jury appearance.
Higbee told Martin W. Littleton yes
terday Glocheski was in the room
fifteen or twenty minutes on one &C.
casion and about five minutes on an
other. Today he fixed the period at
perhaps ten minutes and certainly
less than an hour"
tl0 p11CO OA a
table in Paul Kings office was then
taken up. 49,.
Didn't he say this money was
used for payrolls and when asked
how much was there replied that
there might have been a thousand
lor there might have been million?'
asked Mr.. Nichols.
y z "I don't remember that statement"
= a that ha
said tbs bills were $40. $50 and 500
each and that It looked IKE $is oeoia,
600"
Higbee could not remember that
Glocheski told the grand jurors he
never paid cent to anyone - '~et
votes or influence for Newberry.
The government yesterday Kept up
it's bombardment on the money issue,
getting into the record quotation
from one defendant that the cam
paign cost around 100000, and from
another that he saw on a table in
the office of Paul King. Newberry
campaign manager. pile of money
that Cooked like a million dollars.
Expenses Near $500, 900
Frank Sparks, associate editor of
the Grand Rapids Herald. said he
talked last spring with Richard r.
Fletcher, state labor commissioner,
at Lansing. He said he told fletcher
that he heard the expenses of the
campaign were nearer 100000 than
the $4,000 reported. and Fletcher
replied that it was nearer $800,000,
and he knew what he was talking
about"
The money on the table was de-
,scribed to the grand jury by r. F.
Glochoski, a Grand Rapids defend
ant, according to c. r. Higbee, clerk
of the grand jury. He testified sew.
eral days ago concerning testimony
given by three campaign field agents
and was recalled to relate what Glo-
choski and Frank o. Gilbert, of Bay
CITY told the innniSitors