Show I I COVER FROM m OLD n GENERA WM HAIG AIG FIGURES F GURES IN TELEGRAM I Mortimer Gives More Revelations of Vet Bureau Contracting MESSAGES READ Wife of Witness Wa Promised Expensive Motor WASHINGTON Nov ElIas IT-ElIas 17 H Mortimer star etar tar witness against Charles R Pt Fortes Forbes took the th stand agaIn tonight before betor the senate enate committee to renew his 1115 charges and to present new nw ones onos one Chairman Reed Red announced that James S Easby counsel for tor Forbes sill III not be bo permitted to cros s examine Mortimer but but as aa has been the custom the chairman chair chillI- man mun will put to the th witness ques- ques lions prepared by Easby Smith Examined by John r F ORan general couns counsel 1 tor for the th committee sold said he h had been able to locate local he h last appeared on the stand a number of ot letten letters and telegrams to charges In his hia previous One of the first pap papers PM read was wa I a letter addre sed to My lIY Dear Katherine and Mort Mont It said You Tou will see seo se by th tb the thit tb June 1 Wa was best I could do Will keep you advised and hope you will wll give sive me m a TI ride rid le some omo time tim You Ton certainly have hav been generous with your our car With 10 lov lote e t to Ion OU J both Jack SEEKING CONTRACTS TR Mortimer Montimer said aid this was as from J r rW JW W Thompson of ot the Thompson- Thompson Blick Construction company of ot Chicago who was seeking gOHrn- gOHrn got to era ern- contracts at t that time On the th strength h of promises made nade mad to Thompson by Forbes Fortes about government work said eald aid Mot Mor- Mortimer timer be n had promised Mrs Irs Mor Mon Mortimer timer an expensive car She Sho Sh was In the he west went about about the time the car cal wis W rea ready y and I knew the car never was delivered A telegram sent from Washinton ton on March 28 2 1922 and ad ad dressed to E B H Mortimer at th the Waldorf hotel New York an sod nd signed e said s1 Colonel left lett 1 05 P 1 m in Be B a Wentworth Mortimer said Mid ald the telegram waP wai scot by his wife wit Forbes decided when we w firs first talking about the these con con con- tra ts Mortimer said ald that I it would be b better for fot us not to bd b set seer together Ina In Wa a too I murl I went to New York anti and she sh let me ma m know when h he l would be b tb there thoro ro SCOTCH G GENERALS LR S Sto to OR an au then put Into the record a L number ot of telegrams between James W W Black ot of o the Thompson Thompson- Thompson Black BI Black ck Construction company and Mortimer for tor th tb ho purpose It as w U explained of showing sho that Mortis Morti suet mel did have business relations with Black One me of the th tel telegrams was dated doted at t Seattle on July uly 4 1922 signed James Jarne W IV Black Elack And addressed to Mortimer at San Francisco have havo all of the th Scotch generals when you arrive here h re with Uh l Gner fi In command said sald ald the tho th telegram There Ther wn was also inc Int InI I as x to when MortImer would S Seattle I i At that tine tin Mortimer was we w In Fa Pan n Francisco with Forbes Fortes a sod nd his hl 1 official party part and said eald I the t aa aae to meet lk El at Seattle thy they did didi Were Vero jill all the tho th Scott Scotch generals I there asked Senator Ree Rd Reed t I Yes Yes Mortime Mortimer responded |