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Show I SULZER SHOWIV TO BE 1 DEEPL1MI0LVE0 I Broker Tells Under Oath of the Governor's Wall Street Transactions, i YORK, Sept. 12. Governor Sul- ! sscr's transactions In Wall street from June 27. 1 y 10. until they ceased at least so fur as one 11 rm of brokers was concernedon con-cernedon July li last, were described tinder oath today by Melville D. Fuller, who said lie was Seizor's broker, In a hearing held by Hie nine Impcnchment managers appointed by the assembly. Mr. Fuller, who before the Frawlcy Investigating commission refused to testify tes-tify eoni-emlng certain inattcrp, answered all questions today. He ' testified that Sulzer had paJd him $1!.000 In person within a month and a day after the last election and that he (Fuller) had Jiad no dealings with Mrs. Sulzcr. According to Fuller's testimony. Pulzer, while a representative, opened an account ac-count with his firm, Harris it- Fuller. June 27, 1910 In .September Sulzer borrowed bor-rowed ?L'3,000 from the firm, giving as collateral 100 shares of "I3lg Four" railroad rail-road stock. In November of the samo vear Sulzer added some American Smeller Smell-er stock to his collateral held by the brokers. "Big Four declined from SO to 57 within with-in a year," Mr. Fuller continued, "but Mr. Sulzer bought some more of the stock and added Southern Pacific to his holdings. On November 13, 1012, a few days after he was elected coventor, Mr. Fuller continued. con-tinued. Sulzer walked into the office of Harris & Fuller with ten ?IOQ0 bills In his hand. These he paid on his account, his indebtedness, owing to other transactions, transac-tions, having increased to 550.612. On December G, Mr. Fuller said. Governor-elect Governor-elect Sulzer paid in person $6000 more In cash on his account. On June 16 of this year Sulzcr's debt to the brokers had been further reduced. One of the checks, Mr. Fuller said, was from A. E. Sprlggs. a former governor of Montana. Lieutenant Commander Joscphthal of Governor Sulzcr's staff visited the office of Harris & Fuller on July 16 last, Mr. Fuller added, and closed the account by PRylng the remainder, $26,730. Mr, Joscphthal Jo-scphthal presented an order which was produced today. Tt was signed William Sulzcr for "Mrs. Sulzcr." Mr. Fuller could give no explanation of the words, "for . Mrs. Sulzer," he said, as neither he nor his firm ever had had any dealings with |