Show EVIDENCE EV IDE NeE IN I If r HOOKER HOOKERMan Ml SE SEr r Man Mn Who Wo wi Ow Jurists j Wife on on I Ithe the Stand StandS S 4 4 GRAFT IN THE HE POSTOFFICE DREW SALARY BUT UT PERFORMED NO WORK WORK Albany X N Y March SO Frank P Ball Ban the Dunkirk ticket broker alleged to have ha ve been placed in the Fredonia posto ce by b the of Justice Hooker testified d today toda before the as assembly assembly judiciary committee investigating ing lug the charges against Justice Hooker Ball Bal said sid that although he had done no work at the Fredonia postoffice he had bad received 2533 Practically all aU of this he lie said al was wa used to repay the wife of or Judge Hooker who had en endorsed endorsed domed a note for him Later he re returned returned returned turned every cent of the amount he lie had received to the postmaster post at Fie Ftc don In who had been ordered to re refund refund refund fund it to the government Ball Han that he was notified by b Postmaster Taylor that he had received an order from the department to repay to the government all al the money mone that had been paid pid to Ball Bal as a salary and I that in the th same Caine month he Ball Bal gave a note to Mr tr fr Taylor Ta lor for 2500 and a check cheek for the remainder of the money Jone It I was developed by b the evidence that three men Inen one a newspaper man mun of New York City and nd two others hostile hoste to Justice Hooker Hoker had attempted to corrupt the testimony of Ball Bal by b as assuring I suring him hini that he would not have to pay pay the 2500 50 note and that they the would i furnish a lawyer r at their expense to defend det nd any an p suits that might be b brought as the th result of the nonpayment of the note if he would disclose evidence which they believed he possessed in iii relation to Judge Hooker Ball Bal de declined dined to enter into any agreement to injure Hooker Through the introduction of a report by W V E Cochran chief ch f postoffice in inspector inspector Inspector it was learned that Minerva Jeffrey is not a myth as has been claimed Evidence was wat introduced at atthe atthe atthe the early hearings that Minerva nerva Jef JoE Jeffrey Jeffrey frey was was appointed to the Fredonia on Jan 17 1898 together with wih several other persons without the knowledge or request of the postmaster ter who testified that he h had never neverseen neversen neverseen seen sen the woman and that her pay paychecks paychecks paychecks checks were sent to George W Yo Beaver in Washington The portion porton of the report admitted says Minerva 1 Jeffrey Jefrey is the th e daughter daug of Mrs lr Kate K Blackmar Blackmur of or Washington D C at whose residence Mr Beavers Be vers had a u room |