| Show i Sl to aAL POI fIN N FAVOR v Blanco Prosecutions Chief Wit Witness ness floss Said no Money Was Extorted From Him HinI MAYORS CHANGE OF FRONT One Jute r I in to Jl 1 Ite vii ui c J t lenc ii Is lo h I o i tul I tug fin I They ii icy bu he It ia UI eti Suit SAn tt June JUliO A few minute before heu nl of If court this after afternoon noon noun the defuse lu itt the trial of ot Mayor I tot for extortion tl what they Ih a tL point thin the I of lit one OtiC if f thin the chief Antonio It U Until Unlit the tho great Brent flu IJ fri pil tor of ur one cute of the titu five French restaurants from whose owner Ito tho t mayor tout and Abraham thra ha in ark ure HI accused of f having n thou thon thousands t Ito ii sands sit it dit oC or 0 f dollars nit under threat th I Implied I iii cut cutis Is 18 not 1101 e to prevent the thc of If their liquor licenses HM hid ever OCI thI you II that tha t I If tf you pay lay titus this Ihl money mono you would not hIlt get Ket t your licenses renewed asked Atty 13 Campbell senior counsel Xo Xu replied Ie 1111 11 promptly 11 he itO hodill dill did not Did the ever toll tell you that Ihal No Xo Did ever tell oti Oll no so noNo soNo No Nobody ever enI made that threat throat to me inn wild Four were Welt on III the thc stand to today 0 day Charles F Jo 1 secre secretary II re tary 1 r of oC the board of commission commissioners lIlon ers former I Police Pollee Commissioner loller Tham Thant Thamas as nit and lint Dr 1 Joseph and iund o Thin Th first witness to tomorrow morrow morning will be Mai Ial proprietor of De res tes lie acted acINI its liS aceil I for Or the theother other othil French restaurateurs and handed ha to 10 tIe the money which the prose pros prosecution cution was cuts extorted ami which the defense maintains was IUS paid purely ns its a ii retainer and in Iii pursuance of ft a t lesal contract by 13 h which Heuf was Willi to 10 tonit nit ait us ns attorney for the Frenchmen In itt Inthe the Iho matter of or securing Iring the renewal of tildE their licenseR license has hall been held up lip by hy y Polka Police Commissioner ami Hutton on charges of immorality Pierre Piet who conducted the ne negotiations with on behalf of oC the tite other restaurant re keepers and him himself self 11 and whose name appears aft aS s a 11 signature to the contract cou alleged all Is dead ul cad Former Commissioner Heagan testified fled fied minutely to the sudden 81 1 1111 nod and deter determined mined change of the tue mayors attitude on oil HI French license renewals from ad nd advising their refusal to 10 demanding that they the be lie granted simultaneously with the tite appearance of or Abo Aho Huer RH nH attorney for or the ho JI and amI his hll testimony Implicated the Walters aIters union III lu a plot pint lo to expose the Immorality of these places as a 11 of union with their proprietors Former Formel Commissioner told of the compiling by of a set of oC bogus for ur till the government of the restaurants rei td how ho he lie II and the boss 1055 haul hall laughed over Oel these and how after they had been een by suit sub submitted to hI the thc police board bonI the licenses were well renewed Antonio testified that Iha t he and the tho th proprietors o or 01 the thc Pup lup Marsh h and Hand Saud had raised a fund of it to be hue raid paul to HuE as IS asa asit a it lawyer and thin the political boss boits for fol 11 I ln care cure of their licenses for tor them Ast Atty Ally Honey conducted this tha examination for COI the state slate Former Formel Judge J C C Campbell for the defenO deene c clel After lel adjournment Mr III Henl waT WM nuked aked a when Hu will trill be to 10 the lie He replied that ho was Will unwillIng Ing lo tO say n because he lie did 1 not nol want to 10 give Mr ut 11 t Campbell n a chance to 10 pre lwe prepare pure pare for fot cl a Ue on tho thin trial was WIlS larger than ever before Crowds pressed about the III locked doors ot of tho the Hush flush Street synagogue before the opening ot of court this morning mid and amI luring the he 1 e every pew Ile In itt the hinge was wan filled and Inri scores curt ot fit f persons perform 1 tJ on stood Flood Lute In till the Ito morning AtOIl the Iho women spectators it lIt the thc lIon of Mr Campbell thai thu Ih might t sate embarrass embarrassment ment by hy doing so o |
