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Show HHI lr w 1 W 4 n b j 21S b II y HHI h w i 13 3 EL" i Jffl B 5L-7 oLlUMliif H I Accuser and Accused H Before the Senate H Committee Washington, July 2C. How Gov. HHH Altgerald pardoned former Cashier 1 Louis A. Hillycr of the Chicago H Tribune, convicted of emboloment, H and the claim that knowledgo of tho undervaluation of tho Tribune's prop- HHH erty for assessment purposes might H have been a factor in tho young man's H fall, figured at the outset of tho hear- H log before the senate Lorimer com- H mittcc today. H Attorney Hanecy, for Lorimer, con- H tinucd tno cross-examination of H, James Keoley. general manager of H the Tribune. Ho submitted evidence H in the Hillyer pardon, in which tho ' governor said the cashier's moral H courage might have been weakened H I by seeing that tho Tribune failed to H pay, by about $25,000 a year, enough H rent for school lands It occupied and H also that it undervalued, its property M , so that It paJd $32,000 a year too lit- H tie in H 1 Smiling one minute and irritated H the next, Mr. Koeley countered on ( many of the pointed questions fired at him Tho Tribune's printing of an H item about tho opening of the "Lori- H mer's bank" at the end of the White H confession story, was taken up Mr. H Hanecy purported to repeat what Mr Hj Keeley had testified to as the way H the Lorimer bank item happened to H fit the vacant newspaper space un- H der the White confessions about the H election bribery. "When you quote me, pleaco read H from the record." .Mr. Keeley sharply m reminded. "You qut words In my HI mouth that I did not say." Hj Mr. Hanecy said he was not pretend- Hl ing to quote the witness' words, but B was calling attention to the incident. H Mr Keeley insisted that the Juxta- H position of the Lorimer bank item H and the White story was accidental, H that the former was picked from other P newspaper "copy" in tho make-up H room in order to fill the hole In tho Hl page and not because of the subject Hj matter. H Mr. Hanecy asked about the send- H ing out of detectives and reporters to H strengthen the White story. H "We did not send them out to H strengthen the story and I have not H said so. It was to investigate it " H "Well, you put it any way though H you want 'Strengthen,' 'corroborate,' H and 'Investigate' are synonyms in the H case. Analyze and diagram them, if Hj jou want to" H Another clash occurcd when Hanecy H asked Keeley if he was "after" Lor- H lmer rather than Lee O'Neill Browne. H "I was not 'after' Lorimer," Keeley B explained. 'I believed that Senator &- Lorimer was not In his position in H the United States senate by legal and H proper means." Hj "Did you over study law." H "No, but I nave studied civic hon- H "Would you mind telling us where'''0 H "Not In association with you " H Such a roar of laughter from spec- H tators filled the room that Senator H Fletcher declared there must be no Hj more such disturbances H It is probable that heads of big 1 stock yards companies in Chicago will H be called as witnesses to explain the 1 use of "lard" (mone) in the Lorir H mer election Witness Keeley said H representatives of the Armour, Swift, H Morris and other concerns might en- H lighten the committee. |
