The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-03-06
Expect Poyoff
Man to Tell
His Story

(P) - Harry r. Williams OF
Wheaton, Ill.,, confessed pay
off man" for a group of Michi.
gan naturopaths, is expected to
testify today in the trial of sew
en- defendants in the 1899 Nat
uropathy Graft Conspiracy case
in Ingham county circuit court
Williams, former lobbyist and
secretary of the American Nat
uropathic Association of Michi-
gan, testified under immunity
grant at the defendants lower
court examination that he paid
legislators approximately $4,-
900 in exchange for their votes.
The defendants, accused of
exchanging brides in the associ-
atoms unsuccessful attempt to
have enacted a law regulating
the practise of naturopathy. are
State Senator Carl F. Delano,
Kalamazoo Republican; former
State Representatives Francis j.
Nowak, Edward j. Walsh and
William G. Buckley, named as
bride takers, and Martin w. Hill
debrand of Battle Creek, Min
KEEL Sherman of Detroit and Err
nest w. Alden of Syracuse, N. Y.
formerly of Detroit, chiroprac-
tors and naturopaths.
Special Prosecutor Kim Sig
Ter Monday brought to the wit
ness stand E. E. McMullen, FIRE.
mont chiropractor, who testified
under immunity grant that Will
liams had told the Board of Di-
rectors in March, 1899, that he
needed $3.50 Eat once" because
"a man was going to collect II
that evening" He said the meet
ing was held the day before the
Bill was introduced in the Sen
ate.
McMullen said others attend
ing the meeting were Sherman,
then president of the association,
Paul Faulkner and Max Rosen-
field of Detroit, directors of the
Association who have pleaded
guilty, Fred Wright of Flint,
who has since died and c. B.
Mcdonald, Benton Harbor chi
ropractor who has testified for
the prosecution also under i'm
munity grant.
McMullen testified the meet
ing was held in Williams hotel
room in Lansing, and that later
former Senator Harry F. Shea of
Laurium and Lansing, who in
troduced the bill in the Senate,
entered the room. Shea testified
at the preliminary examination
that he received $500 from Will
liams. He also has been granted
immunity.
McMullen said he objected to
raising the money, but was ov-
err ruled by other Board men,
bers.
Over objections Of defense
counsel, Sigler introduced a
letter from Wright to McMullen
written in April, 1899. in which
Wright said he had wired Will
liams 500 after certain men"
had refused to accept a post
dated check for 5000.
Harry came to me-" the let
ter said, land told me he had
shown the 5000 check to certain
men, and that they said, we
don't do business that way--if
our money had been on the
Board this morning as you were
told, the bill would have been
brought out Of committee by
now"
Former State Senator Chester
M. Howell, of Saginaw, who has
pleaded guilty and is to be a
prosecution witness. was chair
man of the 1899 public health
committee to which the Bill was
referred.
On cross examination Monday
Mcdonald testified that Hide
brand, a director Of the associa-
ton, was not at the Board meet
ing when Williams demanded,
the $3.50.
Mcdonald also testified that
Burritt Hamilton, Battle Creek
attorney who was employed to
draft the Naturopath bill, twas
much opposed to entering into
payment Of legislators, and he
would have nothing to do with
the matter when he found legis-
lators had to be paid"
Detroit Youth Admits
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