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Show H EX-CHAIRMAN NORMAN E. H MACK FAILED TO APPEAR Hj Beforo Special Investigator Hennessy HJ To Answer Charges Concerning HJJ Certain Campaign Funds. S Albany, N. Y.. Sept. 17 Nomnn H E. Mack, formor chairman of the Do- HJ mocratlo national commlttco, failed to HE appear today before Georgo A Hen- HJ aflsy, Got. Bulser's special lnvestl- Hf gator to answer charges of having failed to account for meneys contributed contri-buted to him In the gu'jo.niuor al campaign of 1910. Instead Mr. Mack through h 8 secretary served Mr. Hennessey with summons and complaints in a $50,000 action for libel. Mr. Mack complains that Hennessy has caused to ba puoltshed 'charges in effect that tho plaintiff unlawfully unlawful-ly appropriated to his own use moneys contributed by others as a campa in fund towad tho election of John A. Dk ns governor of tho state cf New c.k, and salU pub.lcatlon also charges In effect that the pla ntlff blackmailed Individuals and corpora tions lu connects l with the ccl.eo Jon cf campaign fundB. Following tho publication of Mr. Hennessy's charges Mr. Mack announced an-nounced his -Allltngness to appear before be-fore the investigator at any tlm and place he might designate. Mr. Hennessy Hen-nessy then fixed tho hearing rt Albany Al-bany this morning. 1 After waiting with staiographers 'fcr half an hour Mr. Hsnncssy announced an-nounced that as neither Mack nor 'Arthur A. McLean, of Newburgh, trca , surer of the Democratic state committee, com-mittee, had appeared th0 Bession stood adjournsd. |