The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-07-28
DEPOSITS MADE
ABOUT TIME OF
"MANOR" PARTY
Tufts Was Subjected to
Sharp Cross Examina-
tiOn In Proceedings
Brought By Attorney
/ General to Secure Tufts
Removal

Boston, July 2s.-Deposits OF approx
imately $4,000 made in two banks II
May and June, 1917, by District At
torney Nathan A. Tufts of MiddleseS
county were subjects of principal in
uuiry to day at his continued cross
examination in the proceedings before
the supreme court growing out OF At
torney General Aliens petition for Mr.,
Tufts removal.
The money represented gifts from
of his estate, the district attorney
said in explaining them. Assistant
Attorney General 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 intro
duced previously by the attorne.' gem
eral had shown that Hiram Abrams,
Jesse Lasky, and Adolph Zukor. nc
tion picture producers, contributed a
fund of SlO5,O00 to stop litigation
which threatened as result OF mid
night revels at the Woburn roadhonse
by party of which they ware mem
bers.
Mr.. Tufts, questioned concerning tie
money given him by his father in 1917,
a year before his death, said his father
first gave him $1,000 in cash. No one
saw him give the money, Mr.. Tufts
said, his father having asked to see
him alone, but he showed the money
to his wife afterward.
/, Mr. Tufts again received money from
his father in June of that Year. he
said The second amount WAS 50, leo.
all in bills.
The money was put in the Waltham
National bank and the Exchange Trust
company. just before the first of July
MIR. Tufts said he received $1,000
The money in all three cases was
taken from bureau drawer in his |
fathers room.
Later he received ten shares of tele.
phone stock, which he sold through !
jackson and Curtis
Mr.. Hurlburt produced deposit slips |
of the Exchange Trust company show /
ing that on June 5, l7l7, Mr.. TUFTS |
deposited S6,450.
In the Walthsm National Bank s. |
06l was deposited on June j, 1917. III
was the proceeds of check receireI /
from Jackson and Curtis for the sale
eYT l. h. Z 4
posted on June -.
On May 2s, 1917. $1,000 was deposit
ed in the same bank
The name of Daniel II. Gov klev, a
Boston attorney, who testified 10 the
receipt and distribution of $4,000 for
settlement of claims and local ex-
penses in the effort of the motion pie
ture men TO settle the cases that
threatened, was introduced again by
Mr.. Hurlburt.
Did Mr.. Coakley at some time in
form YOU that he had settled with the
lawyers"
Il have no recollection"
As a matter of fact you know
shortly after June 4 that these claims
were settled ?"
He said he did not Jemember any
with Mr.. Coakley about
it. nor did he remember that either
James r. Aylward or Harry g sawyer
ever informed him that the claims OF
their clients had been settled
II wasn't interested in the civil
claims he said II
what investigation in connection
with the moving picture men did YOU {
,,aLa bnssda .oatpy tha .,,o ,;rI. 80 d,
Mr.. Tufts said that was all Chief ]
NcDermott asked him to do. Z
The witness said he frst heard Of 4
he large fees paid by the movie men Q
n June. 1920. He then talked with .
Mr. Coakley. e
What did Mr. Coakley saw"
"He said il was part Of the Bar J
associations propaganda, that it was :
in old story. that they are trying to :
ret him and were trying to involve
ne"
Did you ever 90 70 the investi-
.ating committee TO repudiste this in
imation that money was paid yOut~
Mr.. Tufts said that on June p.
ql7. the case Of Brownie Kennedy.
r Lillian Kingston, charged with 7
.eeping = house of III fame At Mis- q
sWum Manor and also with keepingi 9
quor for sale, came up 70 the su- \
rene court on appeal from the lower b
ourt. She had been sentenced % siN n
lonths on the first charge and fined A
100 on the second Z,
Mr. Tufts j. charged with failing =
, prosecute -BroWnie- Kennedy a. q
art of the conspiracy to obtain slOo.- y