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Show 1'GOM DENIES WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Charles McGowan, tho young Canadian witness, wit-ness, denied beforo the senate Lorl-mor Lorl-mor committee of investigation today that he ever had admitted receiving money for perjuring himself bofore the committee last July. Instead of receiving $1,500 for ''perjuring" himself, him-self, as private dotectlveB sworo. he told them, McGowan testified that he was paid only $300 by a check signed "Edward Hlmes Lumber company, by F. C. Wlehe, secretary," to reimburse him for unexpected loss incident to his presence in Washington to testify for Wlehe McGowan admitted that he was in a hotel room in Toronto January Oth with Detective Bailey, of whom ho said ho "never had a suspicion sus-picion that he was anything but what ne pretended to be," a claims agent. It was then that Bailey sworo tho $1,-500 $1,-500 statement was made 'and J. E. Shorldan swore ho recorded such a statement aB coming over a telephone apparatus from the room in which McGowan Mc-Gowan was alleged to have been speaking. Under cross-examination, Mr. Gowan swore- that no talk occurred occur-red in tho room about tho Loriiner Investigation or anything connected with it. "Nothing was said about It, either by you or Bailey?" inquired Senator Gamble. "No, sir," responded McGowan. "One of tho last things you had talked about to Bailey was gettins money from Wieho, and you have written Bailey you had had a settlement settle-ment with Wlehe and yet Bailey never nev-er asked you how much you got7" inquired Senator Lea. "No, sir." McGowan's accounts of tho time ho was in the room varied from that given by tho detectives. Members of tho committee subjected McGowan McGow-an to prolonged examination as to a letter ho wrote to Bailey aftor having hav-ing hi6 settlement with Wlehe. It was In this letter, McGowan said, in speaking of the Hlncs people coming to McGowan's homo In Toronto, that ho had written "by see, they could have been shown what forced hospitality hospi-tality was. The old shotgun would have been loaded with a couple of Peters No. 2. I made them come across at that not all I expected, though and I had a hell of a lime getting it, too. Had to threaten him with all kinds of exposure." McGowan finally said the suggestion sugges-tion of Senator Fletcher that the letter let-ter was a joke was correct. McGowan's McGow-an's threat of exposure was not made to Wiehe but to M J. Shields. oo |