Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-12-05 | Page 2 | Federal Judge Was to Get Coal Profit

FEDERAL JUDGE WAS TO GETCOAL PROFIT Close Friend of Jurist Testifies Testi-fies That Arch bald Was Promised Half Interest. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. Admissions that Judge Robert W. Arehbald of tho court of commerce had been Interested with him In a deal for the Katydid culm dump, near Scranton, Pa., and would have profited from the sale of the property, prop-erty, were drawn today from lSdwanl J. Williams of Dunmorc. Pu., before tho senate court of Impeachment. Interest today centered about tho first article of tho charges, which alleged that Judgo Arehbald had exerted inlluuiice upon officers of tho Erie railroad when they had a lighterage case pending in his court, to compel them to give an option to Williams' upon Its portion of tho Katy-djd Katy-djd refuse coal heaps,, owned through Us subsidiary company, ihc .Hillside Coal & Iron company. "What did Judge Arehbald do for which ho was to rccclvo one-half the profits from the coal dump?" demanded Representative Repre-sentative Webb. "It was none of anybody's business If I wished to give it to him." retorted Williams. Wil-liams. To this he later added r.hat the interest of Judge Arehbald resulted from "what ho did for me" and. ihut "it was partly through his influence . that T got the options."