Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-17 | Page 6 | There Was a Jack Pot

UU Man Who Subscribed $10,000 Confessed on a Train , Washington, July 17. The $100,000 legislative "Jack pot," around which revolved charges afTectlng (tb;) election elec-tion of Senator Lorimor, figured lnv the testimoyT" at the opening o.r today's to-day's hearing before the Scrjatc Lorl-mer Lorl-mer committee. Wmlam Burgees, manager and treasurer of a?i electrical company at Duluth, Minn., teetlfled before the Helm Investigating ciram.t-tee ciram.t-tee of the Illinois senate that on a train running out of Duluth, March 1911. C F. Wlebe. who is appelated In business with Edward Klnes, declared de-clared to him that "there -was a jack Dot raised to elect Mr. Lor!m9r; I know what I am iiklnc about because I subscribed $10. 0 to It mvoelf." Mr. Burgess t-tlficd toay about . gWg this conversation. He said he and jrf Wiehc had not met before that da. '.jj: They began conversing In the smoking ;aJl car Burgess said he made a remark j-rtfj about the Lorimer election, which fin- .tjfj ally led the stranger, whom he said zm was Wlehe, to remark that Burgess -g "did not know very damn much about 155 if ;g Shortly afterward, according to the ;JP witness today, Wlehe said: I ' There was a Jack pot for Lorlmer's s election. I know what I am talking about, because 1 subscribed $10,000 to ' P it myself" II "Did you think it strange that a j Ij perfect stranger should make a con- j fession of wholesale corruption to you'" asked Senator Kern. f "I always did. That was the rea- p son I asked who tho man was when i j IB we got off the train. IS