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Show Judge Probed j As Principal In Shady Deal ROBERT W. ARCHBALD. CALLEDAGRftFTER Stenographer Reads Memorandum Memo-randum Concerning Remarks Made by E. J. Williams. WASHINGTON, May 20. The relations rela-tions of E. .T. Williams, one of tho leading1 witnesses in the house judiciary inquiry into charges agninst Judge Archbald of tho commerce court, to the ."judge, was the subject of testimony jiven today by Miss Mary Boland, stenographer in tho office of W. P. Boland of Scranton, accuser of the jurist. Miss JBoland swore that ins-tead of W. V. Boland having dictated the letter let-ter of March 13, 1912, in which a reference ref-erence was made to a ''silent partner" in the Katydid culm bank deal, now claimed to have been Judge Archbald, that Williams was the author of it. Williams corrected his testimony Friday Fri-day so as to make it appear that Boland Bo-land dictated the lotter. Miss Boland declared that Williams' asked her to write the letter one day when Boland was absent, told her what he wauted to say, that she complied with his request and the next day submitted sub-mitted tho letter to him for his approval. ap-proval. She said he signed it. Miss Boland read to the committee memorandum she had jotted down in her note book during the last few months of remarks Williams had mado as lie dropped into Mr. Boland 's office. The notes wore not stenographic reports; re-ports; but mere memorandum. Muuy of them credited Williams with saying he had just left Judge Archbald 's office after talking about cilm bank deals, or was going to seo some ouo at the judge's request about culm deals. On .September 30, Miss Boland testified. "E. J. W. told W. P. B. he was going to .Tuclgo Archibald's to look after a brief which the judge was pc-paring pc-paring for tho Erie railroad." Miss Boland continued that E. J. W. came in later in tho day and "told me that he saw the brief, and it was about a case for the Erie railroad for a lighterage light-erage charge." On November 1, 1011, she said Williams Wil-liams told Boland that he would hnye Judgo Archbald hand thorn, tho Erie, n. few decisions that would make thera "sit up and take notice." On November 2i! ho was credited with saying that, he "had sent the judgo on nn errand" that morning, and that "ho had not gotten back yet." On January 13, 1012, Miss Bolnnd declared Williams told her he thought it was a bad idea for him to be associated asso-ciated with Jndce Archbald any longer, that the judge was "no good nnd a grafter." |