Garland Globe | 1908-02-15 | Page 2 | Governor in Craft Scandal

GOVERNOR II J CRAFTSCANDAL I Former Chief Executiue of Pcnn Kf sylvania Placed in Unfavorable Light by Witness. w Claim Is Made That Letter Intended to be Misleading and a Whitewash White-wash Was Prepared at Suggestion Sugges-tion of Pennypacker and Others. Hnrrlsburg, Pa. The trial of Con tractor Sanderson and three formei stato officers charged with conspiracy In tho furnishing or tho new capltol, took a sensational turn on Friday, when Stanford B. Lewis, assistant to I Architect Huston, declared with dra- , motlc earnestness that Huston's lot- j tor to former Attorney General Carson, Car-son, explaining his pait in tho contracts, con-tracts, had been prepared at tho suggestion sug-gestion of former Governor Penny-packer, Penny-packer, former Auditor General Snyder, Sny-der, one or tho defendants, nnd Mr. Caison, and that It was misleading -.' and Intended to bo a "whitewash." , According to Lowls' Btory. when It J camo Huston's turn to wrlto nn an- I swer to Mr. Carson, Lowls was tele- phoned to come over to Harrlsburg by M Pennypacker nnd Snyder, una the let M ter was prepared at n conference with M those two oinclals nnd tho former ut- jHI tornoy general, to dovetail in with others prepared by state oinccrs con- I nccted with tho construction and equipment of tho capltol. Tho letter to which Ixswls referred was ono ol a series written during November nnd Decembor, 1900, In response to tha Carson Inquiry Into th capltol scandal.