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Show NEW YORK'S SCANDAL Legislative Probing Into Charges of Bribery Brings Surprises Albany, N. Y., Feb. 10. Since 197 I II ram G. Moe, thief witness for Senator Sen-ator Ben Conger, In his efforts to prove that Senator J. P. Allds accepted accept-ed a $1,000 bribe, has been under he.vsy financial obligations to the Conger family. He admitted today, at the senate Investigation of Senator Conger's charges, that at tho present time ho owed Ben Conger, as executor execu-tor of the estate of his brother Frank, $3,fi0n. In addition to this sum thj two Croton banks, which tlio Conger family control, hold Moe's notes for $3,oou. When they had dragged from the witness this catalogue of his obllga tlons to Allds accuser, Allds' attorney attor-ney announced their cross-examination was over Conger's legal staff immediately took the witness In hand to offset the damaging- effect of his latect revelations. revela-tions. For the first timo since the investi-gation investi-gation began, the testimony today showed -decidedly in Allds' favor. Moo was forced to tell of a secret expedition expedi-tion to tho assembly side of the cap-ltol cap-ltol last night to study tho layout of the assembly and committee rooms where he said ho paid Allds the $1,000. When Mr. Osborne took up Moo's re direct examination, he produced the New York drafts which originally represented the $G,000 alleged bribe money and Bhowed that they were i "cleared" on April 23rd, 1901. This was to prove Moe's assertion that he had been in Syracuse to cash' them the day before, |