Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-28
GENERAL DENIAL MADE BY
 DISTRICT ATTORNEY TUFTS

Boston, July 27-District Attorney Nathan A. Tufts of Middlesex county to- day denied that he had made any threats or promises to New York motion picture men after the midnight dinner at Misha- wum Manor, Woburn, in March, 1917, at which the producers and several women were present.
 Testifying in his own behalf before the superior court in the proceedings which Attorney General J. Weston Allen has brought for his removal. MT. Tufts as- serted that he did not present the Mish- awum Manor case to the grand jury be- cause the only evidence that he possessed had been discredited.
 This evidence, MT. Tufts said, com prised the testimony of Theresa Sears and Bessie Mcdonald, who gave to the district attorney a different version of the affair than they had previously off, fered at a preliminary hearing at Wo- burn in May, 1917
 | A transcript of the Sears girls testi- mony taken at the hearing was read to- day. The version of the dinner contained | in this paper indicated a much Hvelier I, affair than she represented it later to the district attorney.
 The Mcdonald girls testimony at the Woburn hearing was also read. In it she asserted that there were sixteen girls and fifteen men al the dinner party and that ffty-two bottles of champagne were consumed. Brownie Kennedy, proprie' tress of the Manor. sent for the women the testimony said.
 1 Under cross examination, MT. Tufts as serted that after Chief of Police McDer' mott of Woburn had talked with hin about the case on May g, he summonec the two young women. The Sears girl MT. Tufts testified, said she didn't know what happened at Mishawum and didn' think it amounted to much"
 She denied her police court testimony he added.
 The Mcdonald woman also, MT. Tuft
 asserted, told him different story o the affair than she had told the Woburl
 police. According to the witness testi
 mony today she said:
 MT Tufts, don't know anythini
 about it. I think l had something t
 drink that night
 Tufts said, the women disappeared. Tn district attorney said he then wrote t
 Daniel H. Coakley, counsel for the mo
 tiou picture men. that the witnesses hal
 been tempered with.
 Concerning Mr Coakleys first visit t : him on May 12, after Coakley had learn ed that the district attorneys office wa
 Investigating the Mishawum affair." MI . Tufts testified that Coakley told him hi , clients were business men and hadn !. done anything wrong except to get
 drink"
 T told him." continued the witness that isn't the way l understood tn
 story I understood that instead of go ing out for bite to eat, and drink they went there for immoral purposes. MT. Tufts said he granted Coakley' , request that he be allowed time to se the facts in the case. He denied he ha
 ever said that if the complainants Wer taken off his back" he might feel dit ferently.
 Earlier in the day Melvin M Johnson = of counsel for MT. Tufts, took up tn
 case of John W. Coombs, charged wit
 operating an automobile while under tn
 influence of liquor in December, 1s1i A This case was cited against MT. Tufts
 Attorney General Aliens allegations. . MT. Tufts testified that at the time f knew MT. Allen, then in private practc : was counsel for Coombs in civil cas
 He said that in a conversation regardin
 a criminal case against Coombs MT. A |. len had expressed to him a wish tn; - Coombs could be indicted for mai n slaughter.
 He said his only chance to get an l. money out of the fellow was to put hi
 through a course of sprouts in the erin
 inal courts,'' MT. Tufts testified. l to IF him 1 couldn't vary the usual practice