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id spokener mission e and Mr I tele-u have?have rep-who was wife, andmade and 3 set evi-Mr Clark had made harmless, ty of no don’t be-ted.’ Mr roe could was veryI. Monroe he called told him 1 over his ould look convinced 10 serious ally hope ation and Jmiliation f a good ' over it.had al-oonvinced and that 1—he had could seeposed in four rases and the remaining 16 cases were disposed of by the entry of nolle prosequi or were tiled or placed on probation by or on the recommendation of the said district attorney.Says He Paid Dennison $1500Lester B. Hennessey of Lynn who was charged with operating an automobile while under the influence of liquor on Nov 3. 1010 was called.He said that in the lower he was given 30 days on the operating charge and ttncd $5 on a charge of drunkenness. Ue appealed.Mr Hennessey then consulted Joseph A. Dennison. He said he did not then know that Dennison is a brother-in-law of Daniel H. Coakley. He had never consulted Dennison before, he said.He paid Dennison $1500. Some months before the payment to Dennison Hennessey heard the case was to be fixed up. •*He went with a fri**nd to Tufts office.I went into Mr Tufts’ office.” he said. “My friend lid the talking. He asked Mr Tufts i! the case was to be settled as agreed between my friend and him.Mr Tufts said ’No.’ He added, 'Any one who says he'll get me. I’ll get him.’ I askrd Mr Tufts who told him I made that statement. He said 'Mr Harvey.’He called Mr Harvey in and he said I’d made that statement.”has mac whereab knew m Lord haor.Did husband the case in Cam!:The w resented not adm: Lord wa seeking a diyorcnroe told ler livinghis office pple tele-►plc stated idle crim-sed to layIhad a ad gotten *ing pres-I had been k he wasDenied Making Threatwith Dist d to him Mu n roe's 1 me Mr 1 trial. I Id be con-The witness said he denied having theratened to get Tufts. He went out, leaving his friend with Tufts.Hennessey said he did not remember ever having suggested to Dennison that Mr Tufts’ office ought to be investigated.Didn't you tell Mr Palmer of mv office that the district attornev's office ought to be investigated?Not necessarily.The Hennessey case is cited under paragraph 21, v/hich charges Mr Ti-fts with nol prossing or filing cases from improper motives.Pressed to tell who the friend was who accompanied him to Tufts' office hte witness refused to give the name until ordered to do so by the court.ActingMr CU for a Ne Mr Cl2 the cast scribed was foui He sailt; after it teetive.When w’as con It m weeks a Mr CU his wife are.Do vc Lord is woman i resented Mlbhawi The w was.Wagner Nol Pros’d Caseme some at he get mil if you to you Mr rge of thosaid the friend was Deputy Police Edward Callahan ofto do r andso.Mre to your ue of Mrent at the neral.Ohearing? ise at thisuestion of i servicesHe then Chief of Lynn.The case was nol pros'd in March 1920, by Asst Dist Atty H. a. Wagner.’ four months after the Indictment was returned by the Grand Jury.On cross-examination by Fletcher Ranney, associate counsel for Mr Tufts. Mr Hennessey said that he had never been convicted before; that he hurt no person and no car except his own in the accident; that he was not drunk at the time, and denied the charge in the Police Court.Mr Hennessey said he saw Asst Dist Atty George Stanley Harvey on the night of the accident and later at the Courthouse. He denied that because of something Mr Harvey did he threatened to get the district attorney's office” or Mr Tufts personally.NeverSays Tufts Said He’d Get Me”Mr Cl. now of with the came to repreren been Mu The w for his a ship for Mr CIS Connor, told him evidence court wi Whipple in aecuri ly in get Mr Cl; Daniel S office, b himself, recollect !ng Mur Was night g mentr’lr Coakley to reduce cndly feel-dr Allen hat he did lr Coakley i fee afterformed by aid to Mr lid through n as to the i excluded, hippie said le that Mr ng secured orce.le was in-t Mr Clark he did not ark feared tiich woulii v York. Rugg an-i trial that bn J. Wes-sal of ap-Court were they show ' Tufts, yesterday, ment overMr Tufts seemed to be angry about something, didn’t he? asked Mr Ranney. questioning the witness on the interview in Mr Tufts’ office.He said he’d get me, responded the witness.Mr Hennessey said that Mr Callahan spoke to Mi Tufts of him In the highest terms. He never told Mr Tufts anything about the $1500 which he paid to Dennison some month* after the Interview.In redirect. Mr Hennessey said he never knew Deputy Chief Callahan until a few days before Callahan accompanied him to Tufts’ office.Why HGentile Liquor Casesers tabula*:rds of the bers of the id the chief: the orlgt-ii «. Thta ig the rec-it the rec-Raiph Smith, clerk of courts in East Cambridge, was calleu. He was formerly In the office of the clerk of the Middlesex Superior Court, criminal session.Mr Smith said that a woman named Mary Griffin was the only witness called before the Grand Jury when James B. Munroe was indicted on two statutory charges.Mr Allen then took up the cases of Frank Gentile, charged with maintaining a liquor nuisance on Jan 1. 1921, and with exposing and keeping intoxicating liquor for sale on May 1. 1921. The case *1 Clte‘! .v.unr,ei: Paragraph 14. whichcharges that with sufficient evidence in his possession Mr Tufts failed to prosecute persons who committed crimes in his Jurisdiction.Charles R. McCauley, chief of .ollce of Woburn, was called. He testified that he was familiar with the case against. Gentilo and that be was a patrolman at the time. in the first case Gentile was fined $.# and three months in the lower court, and appealed. On the second c harge he was fined $500 and given six months. * .The w Yesterd} testified phoned after sh that Su* Mr Cl, with the New Yo was Caj Smith o: Mr Clt Gordon wanted, told hln detectivi susnido: evidence therefor ”1 km trict att applicatteetive*, Mr Cl because that th. place ir Gordo Clark s* because he kno1ClarkMr Cli dum of Asked that he awum S said hii ceived t the rele » The MDescribes Brand of “Hooch”ing mon Were tive to received
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Boston Evening Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Tue, Jul 26, 1921
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