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Show I PROBING SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST JUSTJCjJOHALAN Aerated by Business Man of Grafting on City Contracts. ALBANY. N. V.. Jiy W UntU lats last nirM John O. Connolly, former prsst-dont prsst-dont of a hotting company, wss kopt bs-fora bs-fora tha laclalatlva In vss tig ting committee commit-tee answering question at to his charfOO against Supreme Court Justice Danlal F. Cohalan. He charged tha Jurist with hav-Ing hav-Ing axaetad commlaaions for procuring city heating work contracts.. Tho question war directed particularly gt Connolly' contract with the New York World, by which he received 11000 caah a nd pi omtae of employment for three year at $1000 a year. All the defense big guns were trained on a clauae In tht contract which permitted its cancellation by the World In caee Connolly failed to make out a case against Cohalan to the World entire aatlafactlon. The witness responded affirmatively to a question aa to whether he waa familiar with tho action ac-tion of Surrogate John P. Cohalan. a brother of the Jurist, In rejecting an appraisement ap-praisement of the estate of Joeeph PMIit-ser, PMIit-ser, late puhllaher of the World, on tho ( ground that it unjustly dsprived the state of u large emount of money Attorney for Juitlce Cohalan alao brought out that the payment mad to ColuUao were aaiareJ un the heating ggggsi pany book In January, 190$, several years after the transaction involved, as "money advanced." Asked whether the entry was false, tho witness said the amount were correct, but the uae of the word "advance" made the entry technically false. |