The New York herald., 1921-10-11

an .. 80 $4,000 1t was about SIS
over that mark, he said His statement
of his expenses accounted for $4,000.
He denied that he ever had received a
dollar from Phillips. -tr,
All the charges made against him
were trumped up by his political oppo-
nents purely for campaign purposes, the
Borough. President charged. de named
Dennis O'Leary, Edward Fitzpatrick and
Thomas Purcell as having been in the
alleged conspiracy, and said the, charges
had been dragged around from one In
vestigating body and Grand Jury TO an
other. When he accused The Meyer Com
mittee OF having given secret tips TO his
opponents Mr.. Brown became very an
CRY and thetwo had warm session for
few minutes
Explains About $4,000 Fund.,
The $4,000 fund was explained by
Connolly as having been contributed as
follows: $4,000 by his brother, John j..
which was raised on notes; $4,000 by
another brother, william, in cancellation
of an old debt; 81, 500 BY his father-in-
law, James Connell; $1,000 by Mrs.
Robert Lee Morrell, and a few smaller
cortrfbutions Mr. Connell had testified
: thar Herbert Harvey and Richard GIL
: had suggested to him they raise some
money for the campaign expenses- The
Borough President testified: tt Z i.
y mn Harvey and Mr.. GIL put one
over. on the old gentleman, Conpell. and.
Incidentally, upon me. Mr. Harvey and
/ had not been on good terms. We had
been politically opposed at times. and
our opposition accounted for what hap
pened in the case of the old man. They
went to the old man and made the sue
gestion that II would be a. nice thing
/, to raise some money for Maurice's cam
/. paign, as they put 1t. and of course the
poor old man didn't see anything wrong
.i about that and in fact there wasn't
'and they went to the bank actually, and
they said not to let Maurice know any
thing, about 1t until after election and
they would surprise him by the good
mess Of themselves, and he was sur
I nrised, all right
: "They actually went to- the bank
: Mr.. Harvey told me, and Mr.. Gill told
/; me-; the iFirst National Bank Of Fqush-
Ing, and, endorsed the note and got the
ola 9,an to endorse the note and raised
the money. And the old man took the
4 $4,000 and $500 he wanted to give
himself and gave It to my brother. John
J. Connolly. and told him to donate 1t
IN his name. and that $500 Is ac-
counted for In that as part Of his $1,000
contribution. '~f
~ Harvey took the note and It can be
, found, and my brother Jack contributed
$500 himself personally, at least that
In amy event. and that Is 5000. The
s-$1, 800 of the old mans contribution
never came. He told me he was going
TO make 1t and / would have II, and
told my campaign manager, Mr.. Moy-
Ian, about the $500 campaign contri-
button from James Conneu after elec-
ton, and I went away to rest up and
wasn't in town when my report was
made up or il would have been made ur
more accurately.
'Moyian made 1t UP the best he could
and that is why 1t was not made up in
better way But In any event Mr.
Connsli still insists he owes ire the
money asd insists 1t was because he waa
financially unable. to, give the money al
the time that he actually did not con-
trfbute It, bat he says he still owes It,
but I, don't want 1t, and he, says he Is
going to give 1t to me this election. He
is good natured and / appreciate his
very kind. feeling toward me-, but that
IS another question, M is..s ~;
Gets Money on Hts. Notes. Y
"whaf hapbehed to the rest of 1t?
The 81, 500 had TO be made good, In adj
dition to that l have brother, William
D. Connolly. who has a considerable
amount OF money and is pretty well
fixed and went to him and asked for
a contribution, and ne said, What about
the money you owe nneT I said. ]
wasn't talking about paying money,
was talking about getting some BE
says, 4 am not In position to give yor
any this time. but / will make you q
present Of $4,000 of the money you owe
me II you can raise it. I went to tht
First National Bank of Jamaica and
had to get the s1.500 of my father-in.
laws that he did not come across with
and / had to get the $4,000 of my
brother Wills. and I took a note and
went to the Bank OF the Manhattan Com
pany at Jamaica. and If their story was
so, with this $4,000 in my possession
raised $4,000 on my note, giving three
Liberty bonds Of $4,000 as security. and
here are the notes and the renewals
And / have reduced 1t until / still owe
$4,000 upon 1t, with Phillips's presumed
$4,000 in my possession Here are the
notes and the renewals. and there Is my
bank book. Take a look at that.
"I was very much dismayed some
months after election to receive word
from my sister-in-law that her father
was grumbling about a note he had In
the bank. and / didn't know anything
about 1t, and I went to find out. My
sister-in-law said Harvey and the other
man had got the old gentleman to put
a note in, and now he wanted the money
back, and he had TO pay the note. l saw
Mr.. Harvey and found to my amazement
that there had been a note made out and
I asked him why 1t had been done. and
he said: 4 thought Jimmy told you all
about it, Jimmy being my father-in-law.
That wasn't any good, and since that
time 1 have had to pay Harvey back
$4,000 of the note and / will pay the
paid $4,000 on account of it. and still
owe thousand. OF the $4,000 coinci-
dence. $4,000 of II is notes in the bank.
which wish didn't owe.
THE bank book shows the first re-
newal of II, which Is January 10, bu,
the original note I have not got. The
fact of II Is, when / gave the money
gave them an ordinary form of note
and I gave them the little slip note with.
out mentioning security put. up, and they
did not enter 1t for the reason that
had not given them the right kind OF
note, and they waited until I gave
the note In which the security presented
the Liberty bonds was offered and those
particular bonds are there still. by the
way. and I have to renew that note the
first of January" %
When he got down to examining Mr.
Connolly regarding the campaign fund
Mr.. Brown asked who signed the $1,000
note concerning which the father-in-la law
Mr.. Conncll, had testified The wit
ness said he understood Mr.. Conneli tc
say Mr. Harvey was one of the signers
us that the Harvey who Is the ex-