The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-07-28
TUFT rs BRINGS
FATHER INTO CASE
Says He Gave the $4,000
Tufts Deposited In
Banks
ABOUT SAME TIME
BIG DOODLE is PAID
Tufts Memory Fails at Certain Points
In Cross Examination Made Very
Little Investigation of Moving Picture
Mems Offense.

Mems Offense.
BOSTON, July 2S.-Deposits of ap-
proximately $4,000 made in two banks
in May and June, 1917, by District Attor-
ney Nathan A Tufts of Middlesex county
We're subjects of considerable inquiry to-
day as his continued cross-examination
in the proceedings before the supreme
court growing out of Attorney General
Aliens petition for Mr.. Tufts removal
The money represented gifts from his
father an ante-mOrtem settlement of his
estate, the district attorney said in ex-
planning them. Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Henry f. Hurlburt had asked whether
it was not true that they came at about
the same time as the Mishawum Manor
affair was on. Mr. Tufts said it was.
Testimony introduced previously by the
attorney general had shown that Hiram
Abrams, Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor,
motion picture producers, contributed
fund of 100000 to stop litigation which
threatened as a result of midnight revelS
at the Woburn road house by a party of
which they were members.
The name of Daniel II. Coakley, BOs-
ton attorney who testified to the receipt
and distribution of $50, 900 for settlement
of claims and legal expenses in the effort
of the motion picture men to settle the
cases that threatened, was introduced
again by Mr.. Hurlburt.
Did Mr. COakley at some time inform
you that he had settled with the lawyers
Il have no recollection"
AS matter of fact you knew shortly
after June 1 that these claims were set
tled?"
He said he did not remember any con-
versatiOn with Mr.. Coakley about it. He
said he did not remember that either
James Z. AylwaFd or Harry e. Sawyer
ever informed him that the claims of their
client had been settled. II wasn't inter
ested in the civil claims" he said.
What investigation in connection with
the moving picture men did you make be-
sides seeing the two girls?''
Mr.. Tufts said that was all Chief Me
Dermott asked him to do. The witness
said he first heard of the large fees paid
by the movie men in June, 1920. He
then talked with Mr.. Coakley.
What did Mr.. Coakley say"
He said it was part of the bar asso-
citation propaganda; that it was an old
story. that they were trying to get him
and were trying to involve me-"
Mr.. Tufts said that on June 23, 1917,
the case of Brownie" Kennedy or Lillian
Kingston, charged with keeping a house
of ill fame at MiShawum Manor and also
with keeping liquor for sale, came up to
the supreme court on appeal from the
lower court. She had been sentenced to
six months on the first charge aud fined
500 on the second.
Mr.. Tufts is charged with failing to
prosecute Brownie Kennedy as party of
the conspiracy to obtain 100000 from
moving picture magnates.
Mr.. Tufts said that when the case
came he told the court the facts in the
case.
Did you tell the court that this was
a place of very i'll fame?"
Il don't think | did because the evi-
dence in the lower court was not substan-
tiated."
Asked about a case against Helen A.
Morse, alias Lillian Dale Mr. Tufts said
he was not informed that the woman was
Brownie" Kennedy. She defaulted
In his direct examination yesterday
Mr.. Tufts denied that he had made any
threats or promises to New York motion
picture men after the midnight dinner at
AHshawum Manor, Woburn, in March,
1917, at which the producers and several
women We're present.
Mr.. Tufts asserted that he did not pre-
sent the Misawum Manor case to the
grand jury because the only evidence that
he possessed had been discrediated
This evidence, Mr.. Tufts said, COM
prised the testimony of Theresa Sears and
Bessie Mcdonald, who were present at
the dinner and who gave to the district
attorney a different version to the affair
than they had previously offered at a
preliminary hearing in May. 1917.