Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-19 | Page 2 | Testimony Favors Clarence S. Darrow

TESTIMONY FAVORS CUENCES, HHROW By "International News Service. LOS ANGELES, Fob.18. Tho claim of Clarence S. Dnrrow that tho money used by Dctoctive Bort Frankliu in tho bribing of jurors in the rcNamara case was furnished by some mysterious unknown un-known man was advanced through the testimony of two of his witnesses who testified today. Gcorgo W. Hood, an acquaintance of Franklin, testified that in a conversation conversa-tion he had with the Mclsauiara detective detec-tive subsequent to his arrest ho told Franklin that ho was foolish not to have put the bribe money in hip pocket and to havo told DarroV that it had been used for the purpose of bribery. Franklin, ho said, repliod: "I couldn't do it, they "were watching me too close. The man I got the monc-from monc-from was a stranger, and I have not sqqu him since. He stood within thirty feet of me -when tho mohej' was passed, and then disappeared. I think the man who gave the money was a Sau Francisco Fran-cisco or possibly an eastern man." Franklin had'previously denied from the witness stand that "he had made such a statement. Leonard S. Hober, the watchman- of the McNamara defense headquarters, who was called to the witness stand, swore that Franklin had come to the defense de-fense attorneys' ToomB early on the morning of November 28, 1911, the date of tho bribery of prospective juryman Lockwood, in companj' with a small, medium-sized man of sallow complexion. Franklin he said, was apparently in great excitement, and after a consultation consulta-tion tho two went away. A number of witnesses were called for the purpose of impeaching the . stories told from the stand by Detective Franklin and Attorney John E. Harrington, Har-rington, two .of the most important -witnesses for tho state. Most of the tostimonj' was rolative to statements made by the two former McNamara defense employees subsequent to Franklin Frank-lin 's arrest, in which they are said to have declared Darrow innocent of jury bribery.