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Show SULZER MAKES A STATEMENT Denounces Trial as a Lynching Lynch-ing Calls It Murphy's High Court of Infamy. Albany, N Y. Oct. 17. William Sulzer, twenty minutes after he had been ened with notice of his re raoval from office at 6:50 this afternoon, after-noon, gae to the public a statement in which he denounced his trial as a lynching and declared that Charles F Murphs was judge, jury and bailiff and had written tho verdict of the court ' Had I but served the 'boas' with half the zeal I did the jtate. William Sulzer would never have been Impeached," Im-peached," was the keynote of the statement. Sulzer asserts 1. That Murphy began war on him when he refused lo call off the investigation inves-tigation of graft hi which the state had lout millions of dollars That he never speculated in stocks ' That he did not appropriate cam-1 paign contributions to his own U6e. I That he paid to campaign committees com-mittees all of the money he collected. 5. That he s poorer today than he j eer was In his life 6. That he was in debt $70,000 when he became a candidate for governor gov-ernor 7. That Duncan W. Peck and Allan A. Ryan lately testified against him 8. That the proceedings of the ! court were held in secret 8 That ho was lynched by an as I assembly and a senate controlled bv I Charles P Murphy, whom ho charged with writing the ultimate verdict The former governor also declares bis purpose to go on the lecture platform |