Show MI11 RAYKEN i IS DRAMA Tm Concludes His Examination in a Most Striking Manner TOYHE BECAME A WITNESS Declined to Swear That He Had Been a Thief JBvca to Save Morris Soul Bamhcr Kcr Put Up His Hands and Said 1 Know Nothings bout it Ask joe Tells About His Dealings I With the Board of Education and About VorUinsr on the Old Crank Hayltcn and Morris Running Wniidcm With Hnylceii as Hind Horse I The two days crossexamination of Martin Hayken by Judge Powers in I the Morris bribery case closed at 51 j j oclock last evening It was a long II siege a battle royal between counsel and the witness and both were thoroughly ended The oughly worn out when it witness as was to be expected was shown to have made many conflicting statements but he stuck unflinchingly in his story that he to the main points had paid Morris 5000 under an agree I of the cent him 20 per ment to give cent gross price of the furniture He appeared ap-peared very anxious to exonerate Bam berger and Cahoon and throw all the is smart and blame on Morris Hayken smat showed it in may ways during his I of why examination His e = explanations he turned states evidence was delivered J deliv-ered with great earnestness in a thoroughly thor-oughly dramatic way and had great who heard it influence on everybody whO it infuence crossexamination was Judge Powers crossexaminaton most able and ingenious and vas a throughout The trial un masterpiece throughOut tial happens will likely extend i something less sOmeting wi 1ely tend into the first days ol next week j HAYKEN RESUMES HIS SEAT I I Martin Hayken took the stand for further crossexamination as follows I kind enough to repeat Mr Hayken 0 repeat 1 re-peat once more the contract that you made with Morris and gave to him on Inde wih t the 6th of April 1894 and of which you stated you kept a copy that was i burnt burt I give exactly the wording 1 substance thereof Judge Powers but the stance of it was that in consideration of stance and acceptance of the con assistance ad acceptace I tract assistnc payment of the different amounts the house would allow 20 percent per-cent of the gross receipts on the contract I con-tract The contracts of March 6 and May 7 with the county were the ones that I wth they not rclferred to were < ere Tlerre to wer NO generally the contracts an I through which I was working at that time and which nad not been concluded con-cluded yetwhich ihad not been accepted ac-cepted F C6That included then the board of education ed-ucation contract Yes sir What was the total amount of all those contracts contrat I The total amount that time you know I could not state I could not I say but after they were completed i was SSSOOO I Eight e ght thousand dollars Yes sir I was to be 20 per cent of that S8000 Yes sir Nothing was said about any additional addi-tional percentage No sir I Nothing was sid about 5 per cent I for the architect I There may have been but I would mot be certain I would not swear to 1 but I think there was another 5 percent per-cent to the architect Now if you think there was why didnt you mention that fact when you stated the substance cf that contract Varian and why didnt to Mr you men tion that fact when you repeated the tor substance of that contract to me this morning I was not asked about it Judge Powers and I held myself strictly to what I was asked SIGNED AT THE KNDTSFORD I 4 That contract was signed by you on the 6th day of April Yes sir signed by meA H Andrews r An-drews Co per M Hayken special agentWhe WlHe was It signed 7 At the Knutsford hotel sir In your room In my room sir Who was present Mr Morris Was that all That vas all Did he sign it No sir Did he give you a receipt I No sir it was merely an agreement you know made between him and me Did he give you any receipt No sir I didnt require any receipt re-ceipt Did he sign the copy that you keptNo No sir Now at the time you had made nO contract with the board otf education No sir Did you at that time know the members mem-bers of the board Certainly sir CertainlJ f board Did you know the president of the I did sir Had you been introduced to hjm I dont remember about that time the 6th of April Did they afterwards come to your room and examine the furniture Tiey did sir Did you talk to them art the valre of i rCa sir A CRANK ON THE BOARD Did roil afterwards state to your firm that there was one old crank one on-e board I did sir Ard that you were working to bring him over I did sir That old crank was Colonel Nelson 1 wa it not Yes sir Managing editor x > t the Tribune He was sir He was objecting to your prices I you will allow me to explain I will tell you why Answer my question first He was Now tell me why i you want to explain Yes Why he objected I had an appointment with the members of the board of education consisting of Mr lf Mr Dooly Mr Westerfield I think and Colonel Nelson Nel-son They came up to my room and had the scedule there of the different rooms just the same as I had for the county and that which each room required re-quired and had made a ground pan and a floor plan Now Colonel Nelson when he come he took a piece of paper out of his pocket and said well he says How much is the price of this chair and he pointed to a chair That chair was in my schedule to be used for the meeting room of the teachers Why I said Colonel do you wish to know the price of one chair or dO you wish to know the price of a room complete and entire NO he said I want to know the price of that one chair Well I said we are not in the habit you know of doing that I I sell only one chair and make a different price for one chair than I make for a dozen or for fifty or for a hundred I said my object in submit i ting to you a schedule is this to first adopt you know the ground plans and the floor plans and are for the main furnishings and the question is if that furnishing is satisfactory to you and if sO after that I will make you the prices for each room and submit them for your inspection and when that is done and you wish t enter into a contract con-tract if the workmanship and prices are satisfactory I say then if you wish to enter into a contract I will then give you the schedule along side of the contract specifying in a separate separ-ate sheet the schedule for each piece of furniture and the price for each and that I have figured in the schedule sched-ule Well he says I am not going to have that at all I will not have it I I cannot have the price of one chair I wil leave it alone and he turned and walked away DIDNT WORK ON HIM Would not have any more to dO with you I told him I was sorry but I could not go over the instructions of the house the rule that we follow Well he says I will have nothing further to sayDid Did you go to work on him afterward wardNo sir You didnt gO to work on him No sir Didnt have anything more to dO with him No Did he ever come back He come back We had a meeting of the board of education I was requested re-quested to be there and submit my schedule and a separate schedule of prices as I had given it I made an explanation to the committee the whole board rather were in session I made an explanation and explained to the committee why it was and they looked i through and eventually you know accepted my contract and Colonel Nelson signed with the rest of them all of them with the exception of Mr Baldwin and after the thing was done I wrote the contract and the contract was signed and Colonel Nelson Nel-son signed it and that is all there was to i At the time they signed that contract con-tract did they or any of them know the price of any individual article that you had there I was prired in the contract because be-cause they could not see otherwise than that it was scheduled right along side of the contract So that it was plain to be seen by them as to what you were charging Yes sir exactly Now you charged the board of education edu-cation higher for many articles than you did the county didnt you No There were some items Judge which the city neither the county had there were a few items there were Judge for instance there was one that I remember a large filing case the city neither the county had anything like that at all That of course I made the price higher than for the other then again the finish of the desks and the construction of them but I dont think there were but two or three items that the board of education edu-cation paid more in proportion than the city or county Only two or three items that they paid more for I think only two or three more You think then that the prices that they paid on the average were the same as paid by the county Yes sir Now have you told us all the conversation con-versation that you had with Colonel Nelson Yes that was all I had at that time you know And after he turned and walked out of the room and would have nothing to do with you you didnt do anything more to attempt to convince him and bring him over to advocate your cause No sir I did not NOW WORKING THE CRANK Now did you state to your firm that you were working this old crank cran Colonel Nelson Well I didnt say Colonel by any means I said I was working the crankWell we wit call him the old crank Why did you cal him the old crank Well I thought i was an unusual proceeding to aske me to dO that what he wanted You thought that a man that would come in and ask you the price of a chair that you had on exhibition and because you refused to give him any information concerning it refused to have any further business transactions with you was an old crank Not necessarily What was i that made you think that he was an old crank Well I was told that he was You was told that he was Yes sir So you come back down to the proposition pro-position that i was nothing that he did and nothing that he said that induced in-duced you to call him an old crank but simply because you were told so No not simply that but the experience ex-perience I had with him I thought i was the same thing Now Morris told you he was an old crank didnt he Well I dont want to say that he did didWhy Why dont you Because I could not swear to that Try to think Mr Hayken and see If you could not No I could not try to do i Wont you attempt to do that No I would not attempt to do any harm to Mr Morris and tell you that thing at alW Wouldnt you swear that he was the one that did it No sir I would not Who did tell you that he was an old crank name any man I cannot Continued on page 2 1ir I |