Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-07-14
film NMTN PAID ONE
I LAWYER $4,000
Gao Was Price Of Obtaining
poadhouse Releases, D. n.
coakley .rest.fies
CALLS ACTIONS H0LD-UPs

poston. July 14.-Daniel II. Coax
Il, named by ]. Weston Allcn' Attor-
r.r General. MS n princinnl with Dis
49,, Attorney Nathan a. Tufts, OF
s,,dd,csey County. in an alleged con-
.n,~ocv TO cxtort 800 600 from notion
,,o,ure men who participated In n mid
n,,ht pprtv Mt Mishnwnum Manor in
Wnbr,n ~ 1917. received S31 600 as his
~ In ,be case. he testified yesterday be-
iort the Supreme Court. ,,
No srid Its services consisted OF OBJ.
to;ninr releases from women who were
A. The roadhousc and others. David
ctoncman. counsel for Hiram Abrams.
.Ilercd by the Attorney General to have
Non tbc 20 between. had testified pre-
v;onsly Yesterday that he Daid Coaklep
sS5 06O from funds given him by
Abrams.
: Coakley confirmed this payment. and
named sums that he had pnid to settle
cnims, The various claims were set.
tied in cash, he said because he did
moi wish 60 run the chance of a check
setting into the hands of woman of
he underworld, where II might be
photographed
Believed Actions Hold. Ups
The witness coupled the cynical con =
S,ssion that he thought most Of the
claims against the New York notion
nicturc men. growing out of the Misha-
wnm Manor affair. we're 'hold-ups."
Coaklcy did not investigate the cases
against tile movie men enough to know
A. &c tha hn IL
Here is how he says S76,25 of the
5000 paid over by the frightened
motion picture men was split: Daniel
II. Coaklcy. for attorneys fees. S31. :
600 to S32, 900: Attorney II. G. Saw
ger. for settlement of claims against
movie men by girls who were Mt the
Mishawum Manor orgy. and their
Husbands" $1G.IjO; Attorney Daniel
Sughrue, a member of Coakley's Office
force. gift" S13 900; Attorney w.
". Clark. settlement of claims of girls
and Husbands" $4,000; Attorney j.
=. Aylward. settlement of claims by
"I.ord and Tierney," whose wives af-
fections, they charged. were alienated,
$500.
The "bCtwccn S31 900 and $40, 900
fee he got was what was left" after
he had settled with all the girls who
were threatening trouble. He person.
ely paid no woman any money in con-
,pection with the Mishawum Manor af-
fair, Coakley snid.
No Claims Legitimate
Mr.. Coaklcy was asked If he thought
the women who were at Mishawum
Manor possibly could have any legiti-
mate claim against anybody.
mo, didn't" he replied. MY
JOB was to see that no suits were
brought and l worked for that end,
but when | paid I believed they were
oil bad claims and dishonest"
Coakley related his version of q con-
yersatlon with District Attorney Tufts
In the lattcr's Office in May. 1917. He
snid he went there with Hiram Abrams,
Walter Green and Harry Asher and
introduced the men. II said. Mr..
Tufts, ! want you to meet Mr.. Abrams.
Mr.. Asher mad Mr.. Green. These are
three men who / understand were out
OF Mishawum Manor, at a party, which
you are investigating. brought them
out SO you might see that they are de-
cent, respectable business men of high
standing. | feared you might bring
some criminal action. and | believed
you shouldn't. and should first see the
men. y Conkley testified.
The witness insisted that nothing was
said by Mr.. Tufts about getting the
eomplainantS off his back"
The next time he saw Tufts was
early IN July, he said, when he told
Tufts that Aylward, Sawyer and Clark,
lawyers. had no objections to the mat
Ter being dropped, and that he had set
tled with them. Mr.. Tufts then told
him he was not going to push the mat
ter any further. he snid.