Evening star., 1932-08-17
ROOSEVELT ANGRY
| At HEARING DELAY
Rebukes Walkers Counsel,
Threatening to Take Per-
sonaI Charge.
Continued From First Page.)

told Mr.. Kerrigan we were eager to
get Sherwood. Mr. Kerrigan said Sher-
wood had told him of an attempt to
serve papers on him.
"Kerrigan asked if we were going to
| examine Sherwood while the mayor was
abroad and l explained why. Kerrigan
promised to produce Sherwood. Kerri-
gan said. however. I know the mayor
| did not expect you to find Sherwood. y
Warned of Subpoena.
From Easthampton that week end
Judge Seabury and I asked Mr.. Kerrl-
gan if he had heard from Sherwood
A couple of days later Judge Seabury
informed Mr.. Kerrigan on the telephone
he was going to turn over to the police
subpoena for Sherwood"
Cross examined by John J. Curtin
Walkers counsel. Schurman said he
prepared the material in the inveSti-
cation of the mayor.
| Il wasn't interested in Mayor Wal
ker's personal affairs, Mr.. Curtin
Schurman replied sharply in protest
against one of Curtins questions.
A letter Schurman wrote to Walker
before the mayor went to Europe year
ago, and the mayors reply, were intro
duced as evidence.
| Curtin read Schurman's letter, which
requested a list of the mayors bank
and brokerage accounts since he had
taken Office as mayor. January l, 1926
and list of his securities.
| Schurman said he wrote the letter
but Seabury signed it. Curtin then
read Walkers reply. It listed his bank
accounts and securities and stated
! Walker had no brokerage account. save
the Joint account with Paul Block.
Hove you any idea" Curtin said
"how the newspapers got word that
Mayor Walkers accounts we're sub
poenaed?"
Il have not If you imply they got
it from me, I assure you they did not y
Didn't Discuss Trip.
| @. Was it ever discussed with coun-
sci by Senator Hofstadter whether
Mayor Walker should go to Europe at
that time?
A. Not with me-
@. Did Mayor Walker ask Senator
Hofstadter if there was anything he
| could do to cooperate with the COM
mittee before he went to Europe?
A. do not know.
@. You asked Mayor Walker for in
formation and you got it, didn't you?
| A. Yes, in part.
Sherwood's name, Schurman said
| first appeared in connection with the
mayors account in the Federation
Bank & Trust Co.
He said he ran across Sherwood
name in tracing coupons from Con-
solidated Gas bonds. which the mayor
said belonged to Mrs. Walker. Part
of the coupons were deposited in the
Walker account in the Federation
Bank, he said, and part in an account
of Sherwood in another bank.
Denies Arrangement.
Curtin asked Schurnan If he ant
Kerrigan at lunch did not discuss ar
arrangement whereby nothing was don't
about Walkers affairs until he had re.
turned from Europe.
Schurman said the arrangement was
not mentioned.
THE talk was" he said, that II
was unfair to examine Sherwood while
the mayor was away"
@ (by CurtinD Didn't Mr.. Kerri.
gan say it was unfair to examine The
mayors affairs while he was away.
A. No.
6. Didn't Mr.. Kerrigan say the
newspapers were publishing that ac'
counts were being subpoenaed while
you knew, as matter of fact, the
mayor had turned them over to yot
voluntarily?
A. No. Nothing like that was said
Curtin asked Schurman If he had
received word from Harry Snyder, g
process server, where Sherwood was
with his hotel room number in At.
lantic City.
II believe he did" Schurman re.
piled
O. When.
A. Some time in September, I be.
lieve.
@. Didn't Snyder say he had seer
and talked with Sherwood in Atlantic
City?
A. He reported he was in Atlantic
City, but he did not say he had seer
and talked with him. Sherwood
he said, was at the Hotel Traymore-
Atlantic City.
Schurman said he turned over to the
police subpoena for Sherwood on Au-
gust 20. Schurman said he told the
police he had heard Sherwood was II
Atlantic City and asked them to veri-
fy it.
Told to Hold Subpoena.
Curtin then read a report to the po.
lice department stating Schurman tolc
the police to hold the subpoena, while
Sherwood was in Atlantic City, in the
the event he should return to New
York
@. No application for an order fol
Sherwood was ever made while he was
in Atlantic City, was there?
A. No, because he disappeared from
there.
@. Did you call up Mr.. Kerigan ano
ask him to induce Sherwood to come
back?
A. No. can tell you why if yol
want to know.
@. I don't want to know why at this
time. Now later Sherwood showed W
in Mexico City, didn't he?
A. Yes, we learned it from the press
@. And you sent process server!
down there?
A. Yes.
@. You recall the newspapers quot.
ing Mr.. Sherwood before he was served
A. I recall something of the sort.
@. Did YOU call Mr.. Kerrlgan al
that time to assist you?
A. I did not call Mr.. Kerrigan.
Refers to Newspapers.
Roosevelt suggested they take from
newspaper files the dates OF Sherwood
arrival in Mexico City and of the serv'
ice of the subpoena on him.
Curtin objected to taking the date'
from the press. but the Governor sale
he would send to the library for news
paper file and look up the dates during
the luncheon recess.
Odd you prepare the affidavit!
upon which a subpoena for Mr.. Sher'
wood was obtained?
Al did not.
Odd you know. when SHERWOOD
turned I'm in NeYicO CitV that MayOl