New-York tribune. [volume], March 13, 1920, Page 5, Image 5

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Nugent Hearing
Ends; Argument
Set for May 24
Court Will Hear Plea for
Dismissal on the Ground
the 50-50 Agreement Was
Against Public Policy
Sackes Questions Fissell
Priest Who Is Said to Have
Introduced Parties Is a
Witness for the Defence
The taking of testimony in the suit
.brought by James R. Nugent, Demo?
cratic boss of Essex County, N. J., and
Joseph A. Wright, one of his^ieuten
?nts, to demand an accounting of the
profits in the construction of Camp
Merritt from W. H. Fissell, a Newark
contractor, was finished yesterday a?
the hearing before Vice-Chancellor
Backes in Newark.
Counsel for Fissell moved for the
dismissal of the complaint on the
ground that the agreement which Nu?
gent said existed, to split the profits
60-50 if Nugent and Wright got Fissell
the contract, was against the public
interest and, even if it existed, should
not be enforced. The Vice-Chancellor
set May 24 as the date for this and
other arguments in the case.
Fissell alleges that neither Nugent
nor Wright had anything to do with
getting the Camp Merritt contract for I
him. The belief, he testified yesterday,
was based upon a conversation with \
Captain Kenneth M. Murchison, of 30 !
East Sixtieth Street. New York, who |
?ras connected with the committee !
which awarded the cantonment con- ;
tracts. Captain Murchison told him, :
he said, that he obtained the Camp
Merritt contract without influence.
In answer to questions put by the
Vice-Chancellor, Fisse!'; admitted that :
hi got the first news of the success ?
of his bid from Wright and Nugent j
and that the same thing had happened ;
in a previous contract he obtained and j
then lost.
Hoped for More Contracts
"Why," demanded Vice-Chancellor j
Backes, "if you believed Captain
Murchison that Nugent and Wright
had nothing to do with getting the
Camp Merritt contract, did you agree
to split your profits on that contract?"
"Well," the main thing was." replied
Fissell, "I didn't want to hurt the fu?
ture. If Nugent had a $10,000,000 con?
tract that he could get for me, I didn't
want to quarrel over the Camp Merritt
contract. I figured that if we got a
$10.000.000 contract we would have so
mach money that we wouldn't quarrel
over the Camp Merritt contract."
"But you preferred to believe Cap?
tain Murchison rather than Nugent and
Wright"" suggested the court.
"Yes.'" said Fissell.
Another thing the Vice-Chancellor
wanted to know was why Fissell paid
Wright $100 a week while he was in
Washington if Wright, in his opinion,
wasn't doing him any good there. Fis?
sell replied that he thought it waschest
to pay Wright so he wouldn't do" him
any harm, even if his efforts at lob?
bying were a failure.
Several letters Fissell received from
Nugent were read, each of them en?
couraging ?n tone, but none of them
definite as to the progress being made. '
A letter from Frederick Law Olmstead,
of Brookline, Mass., who was a mem?
ber of the Emergency Construction
Committee, which let the cantonment
contra?*?, also was read. Mr. Olmstead
?aid it was the custom of the commit
tee to he guided only by the actual
representatives of the bidding firms in
awarding contracts. He expressed the
opinion that there were "few if any"
lobbyists sent to Washington by con?
tractors whom the committee failed
to "size up." s
Priest Is Witness for Fissell
Father Cornelius, the priest who,
Nugent =aid, introduced Fissell to him,
saying the contractor would split profits
50-50, was a witness for Fissell and
denied Nugent's statement that he had
brought Fissell to the politician's of?
fice. He had called Nugent by tele?
phone, he said, and told him Fissell
wanted to see him.
The priest said he knew that the
general plan was the making of a
profit-sharing agreement with respect
'?o any government contract Fissell
might get through Nugent's aid, but
?aid he had not been present when the
agreement was made.
WASHINGTON, March ^--Secre?
tary Tumulty's comment to-day on
?Ismes R. Nugent's testimony that
through introductions obtained from
wie President's secretary' be had suc?
ceeded in getting war contracts for a
nrm Nugent now is suing for an ac?
counting was:
"I introduced Nugent when he came
to me, as I did many others. He was
treated as any other person was treated
who asked for introductions. I hope
Jim made some money out of the con^.
tracts." ?
Secretary Tumulty said many other
persons who had obtained Introductions
trom him in a regular way were suing
'or commissions on contracts.
? ?
R. T. Andrews Acquitted
On Hotel Bill Charge
Admitted That Widow of Gen?
eral Burnett Sent Check
to Pay Debt
Robert T. Andrews, of 34 East Thir?
ty-second ?Street, arrested last Janu?
ary on complaint of the Pennsylvania
Hotel management that he had incurred
?.bill of $30 there last fall and left
Without settling, was acquitted in
wi?al Se8Bions Court yesterday.
When Andrews, who is twenty-three
years old, was arrested on this charge
Mrs. Agnes Suffern Taller Burnett,
'ixty-one-year-old widow of General
"enry L. Burnett, appeared in Jeffer
jon Market Court and disclosed the
T*ct that Andrews had been a member
?* her household for four years. She
???d at that time that she intended to
?dopt him.
Testimony was Introduced to show
Jnst Andrews went to the Pennsylvania
Hotel and signed checks in settlement
g* his bills "Agjes T. Burnett, per
*? F. Burnett." R was admitted that
Wi. Burnett had sent the hotel a
?eck in settlement of Andrews's in
WDtedness.
Mrs. Burnett has stated that An
?*?*? had her perm ssion to sign hex
**?? not only at hotels but to bank
a*.
bought in North-west Is Said v
To "Amount to Disaster*'
WASHINGTON, March 12?Clsssi
j/u?f the plight of families in the
wottght regions of Montana and North
?wota a? "amounting to a public dis
**_7r? tlle American Red Cross to-day
2_*opriated $50,000 for relief and tc
Bg* obligations incurred by local
"Wters. Red Cross officiels said the
"?Wstion -? the drought regions wat
??a a* "to demand state end Federal
g*jeyeud the resources of the Red
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