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Perth Amboy Evening News
Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey
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In Chicago's Forbes-Thompson fraud trial on Dec. 2, testimony from builder Daniel A. Garber interrupted witness Elias H. Mortimer. Garber's firm bid on 1922 veterans' bureau hospital contracts but lost the Northampton, Mass., job to Pontiac Construction for faster build time. Defense subpoenas war secretary files.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (By The Associated Press).—The government interrupted the story of Elias H. Mortimer, chief witness in the Forbes-Thompson fraud trial here today to take the testimony of Daniel A. Garber, of New York, president of the Northeastern Construction Company.
His company was a bidder on hospital contracts during the term of Charles R. Forbes as director of the veterans' bureau in 1922. Although the low bidder in money on the Northampton, Mass., hospital foundation, the Pontiac Construction Company of Detroit, was given the contract because its bid was the shortest in time of construction.
Colonel James S. Easby-Smith Forbes personal counsel, obtained from Judge George A. Carpenter a subpoena for certain papers desired by the defense from the files of the secretary of war.
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Dec. 2; 1922
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Government interrupts chief witness Elias H. Mortimer's testimony in Forbes-Thompson fraud trial to hear Daniel A. Garber, whose company bid on 1922 veterans' bureau hospital contracts but lost to Pontiac Construction Company for Northampton, Mass., foundation due to shorter construction time. Defense obtains subpoena for war secretary papers.