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Show ii "ESess H'! Miss Helen Margaret Seavers, t j Telegraph Operator, Swears j Lumberman Offered Her j 'j Money for Telegram. SENSATION AT THIS I , LORIMER HEARING H ' Lawyers Pass Alleged "In-H "In-H suits" Back and Forth Dur- inr the Examination of H the Witness. IW International News Service. i WASHINGTON, Feb. S. A scusb- i tion' wns sPn,,, n t,,c i'or,,ncr W 'uminlitco hearing today when I V MIfs Helen Margaret Seavers. a 'j Ptrllsliigly pretty girl of 20, who fl n employed as a telegraph operator in ihe Xv "Wlllard hotel In Washington, tost JfiMl that Edward Ilincs of Chicago, millionaire lumberman, had tried to bribe ( ier in show him a telegraphic message i sent by Detective A. C. Bailey, whose I testimony had been Introduced to dls- credit n IHncs-Lorlmcr witness. Miss Sen vers wont upon the witness ' Ftand just when It was expected that J Senator Dillingham, chairman of the com- j mlttce, would announce that the long i drawn out hearings In the Lorlmer case j had come to an end. Added to Miss Soavcrs remarkable .ory. a serious clash between attorneys, In which charges of "Insults" flew thick and fast, enlivened (he closing hour of B ( the hardest fought election Inquiry in B B 'w MIfcg Seavers was called to the wlt- B t hcas stand by Attorney Hcaly. counsel B I fur the investigating committee. She said B I she was employed by the Postal Tcle- B giaph company at the hotel stand. Sent Message for Bailey. B '' "Did you send a. message, for Mr. A. B 4 .'. Bailey within the last two weeks?" f "To whom?" B ' , "To Mr. Harry Kerr." ICcrr lives in Detroit. Bailey took him B in Toronto to act as a. witness to a con- B i I versalion with Charles McGowan. In the B I conversation McGowan Is alleged to have fl , '( confessed that he was bribed to perjure i ' himself in lllnes's behalf. Kerr testified B several dayg ago corroborating Bailey's B story of. the confession. t Asked If she had talked with Edward B t Hlncs about the time she sent the mes- B sage for Mr. Bailey, Miss Seavers said: B "Vcs, he came to my desk and asked B I inc to lot him sec the message sent by B Mr. Bailey. 1 said it was. impossible B that such a thing was against the rules. B "Mr. Hiiies said. 'I know It Is, but It is B very important to me.' lie said he would B give me something If 1 would let him see J St. I said 1 couldn't ' do it and that I B ' 1 couldn't be bribed In that way. He said. B 'Well, then, think It over.' " Had Money in His Hand. I Miss Seavers waa asked If Mines had , anv money In his hand. She answered; j "He was holding some money, crum pled up. I don't know how much. He made the remark, 'I'll put this in your ) paw.' I had a money drawer on my desk. It was opened and J closed It. Mr. Hlncs ( tamo back later and asked mc about it. I told him I wouldn't let him see the message." Miss Seavers said she told her father I' j and mother of the Incident, but said no more about It, except to Bailey and At-, At-, tomey llcnly until sho was called Into , the office of the telegraph company and j asked about it. Jt was during the cross-examination by Attorney Hanecy, counsel for Lorl-nicr," Lorl-nicr," that the clash was precipitated. ' ' Ilancy asked: I ' ' "Did anyone havc any money In his ( hand when Mr. Bailey and Mr. Healy ' I lalkrd with you?" 1 "That" a gratuitous Insult," inter- , ' J"-ted Hcaly. , Attorney Hanecy sprang to his feet. ' "It i. not, and P want to enter a prb-I prb-I . lAit against tile assumption that Mr. 1 ' ' Hincs and Mr. Lorimer and 1h- gcntl"-' gcntl"-' ' men associated with them arc the only i "tits here who can be insulted," said j. Hanecy. i: 1 Healy Excited, jj ',)! , Attorney Healy was more excited than ' ever appeared before the commlt-1 commlt-1 He took the floor angrily. !'Jf R representative of this com-i,U com-i,U rnllte. am coing around attempting to M bilhc witnesses to testify I should be ! I - driven from these doors," he cried. "That altitude of indignation is a bluff." said Hanccy. Senator Lea broke into the argument: "Ir Is mannlfcHt that if Mr. Bailey were to offer money to a witness Mr. Healy could not be present, without being be-ing regarded as an accomplice, and 1 think the assumption of assumed indignation in-dignation should be stricken out," said Senator Lea. . Attorney Hanecy said lliat hn did not mean to suggest that Healy attempted a bribe a witness. Then Attorney Marble, Mar-ble, associated with Hcaly as counsel for the committee, characterized the offending of-fending query as a "trick question," and the row broke out afresh. 'T refuse to submit , to an insult of that kind," shouted Hanecy. "That gcntlc-mnn gcntlc-mnn would not use such language out-sld out-sld this room." The committee finally quieted the lawyers and announced that a majority of the senators thought the question waa Improper and should not be allowed. Other Witnesses. Other witnesses today worn McCowan. whoe cross-examination ended without result: Dr. J. P. .Tupp of Toronto, who testified that McGowan telephoned him at the time lie wa.s supposed to be in the hotel room with Bailey; McGowan's father. fa-ther. Jiihn McGowan. a former member of the Canadian parliament; Miss Kathleen Kath-leen Ltfwlcr. clerk to tho investigating committer, who told of the erratic actions ac-tions of Milton "W. Blumcnberg. official reporter of tho senate. Just before lie denounced de-nounced ttho shorthand notes of McGowan's Mc-Gowan's "confeaslon," as "faked," and C. F. Wiche, brother-in-law of HInes, who Is alleged to have bribed McGowan. Mc-Gowan. Wlche's story agreed to every detail with that told by McGowan, that the I lines. Lumber company paid .McGowan ?r00 to reimburse him for loss .sustained because of his well-drilling machine being be-ing Idle the five weeks he was In Washington. Wash-ington. Tomorrow TCdward Illnc will take the stand to answer the testimony of Miss Shavers. |