The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, April 14, 1910, Image 4
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BRIBE MONEY !
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Traced ( a Promiieat Busiuess Mas in
Pittsburg by Jury.
LARGE SUMS WERE GIVEN
To Buy l'|) the City Officials for all
Sorts of Favors.?Climax in the
Graft Scandals, Dong Promised,
Gomes With Disclosure of Biggest
Deal of Whole Corruption System.
The climax promised in the Pittsburg
graft exposures came as prom
Ised late Wednesday with the prei
Bentraent <by the grand jury In which
is .?re<j?m,mended the indictment of
Prank N. HofiVot, president of the
Pressed Steel Car Company, one of i
the most prominent business men in ,
the country.
Simultaneously in the open court
cn<me a plea of Emil Winter, president
of the Workingman's Savings
and Trust Company, that he had no
defense to make to the charge that
he gave a $20,000 bribe to Former
Councilman Morris Einstein.
Ttoe following in abbreviated form
are some of the miost startling findings
in the grand jury's presentment
made puDlic i nursua; ninm.. i
1. That Frank N Hoffstot. nresi-1
dent of the Pressed Steel Car company
and president of the German
National Hank of Allegheny and
prominently identified with other
banks, paid to Charles Stewart, a
former select councilman, the sum
of $G2,500.
2. That the money was a bribe
UflkM in Influencing the votes of counciimen
to pass an ordinance naming
three banks in which Hoffstot was
Interested as official depositories of
the city's unillions.
ST. That th6 arrangement for the
l>ayn*>nt of the money to Stewart
was made in the spring of 1908 and
that the late James W. Friend at
that time an official of the Pressed
Steel Car Company, was an associate
in th?o transaction.
4. That the original plan which
Friend had was to obtain the services
of William A. Hlakeloy, who
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who is now the district attorney in
charge of th* graft prosecutions, as
a stake-holder of the bribe money
until the ordinance had passed.
6.. That Attorney Blakeley declined
to act in the capacity named and
warned all parties of the criminality
of the proposition and of their liability
to prosecution if ,t went further. I
6. That subsequent to iM.r. Blakeley's
refusal, Friend and Hoffstot
completed an arrangement with Stewart
whereby Hoffstot would pay or
cause to be paid to Stewart the sum
named?$52,500.
7 That the transaction was arranged
to be made in New York city and
took place there in June, 1 908, in
order, if possible, to avoid criminal
liability in Allegheny county.
8. That Hoffstot did a'so solicit
and secure from one James N. Yb'ufig,
cashier of the Second National bank
of Pittsburg, the sum of $21,000
to be paid Stewart to insure the selection
of the Second National as
one of the favored city depositories.
9. That Stewart did demand from
the now deceased friend, who was
acting as agent for the Second National
bank, a bribe for Stewart's
vote in favor of the bank ordinances.
1A Tliut in nrrnrditneo with the
A V. A II (I V *
findings, it b? recommended that indictments
charging conspiracy and
bribery be returned.
The banks named as ultimate
principals to profit by the bribe alleged
to have been paid by Hoffstot
to Stewart are:
The> Farmers' Deposit National
bank, the Second National bank of
Pittsburg, and the German National
bank of Allegheny. In additofn to
these three, the Columbia National
Dank of Pittsburg, the German National
hank of Allegheny and the
Workin.gman'8 Savings and Trust
company of Allegheny were named as
city depositories in the ordinance
passed July 9, 190&, over the Mayor's
veto.
The nlea of nollo contendere by
President Emil Winter of the VV-orlcingman's
Savings and Trust com
pany was no less a sensation than
the report of the grand Jury. He
was charged with the payment of
$20,000 in bribe to Morris Kiustein,
a former select councilman. When
Winter api>eared in court, Judge It.
S. Frazer, who is presiding i;i the
graft cases, asked to he excused from
hearing the plea. Judge Fiasn explained
that on account of his long
and intimate friendship with Winter
he wished to have nothing to do will)
the ease. Winter was then taken
before Judges Thomas I). Carnivan
and J. M. Swearengen and entered
the Oormal plea. Sentance was postponed.
Frank If. TToffstot, as president of
the Pressed Steel Car Company, one
of the largest industries of its kind
in the country, recently figured prominently
in the public eye while a
strike was on at his plant in McKees
Rocks.
Just before President Winter's appearance
in Judge Frazer's court,
James Anderson, th?? general bookkeeper
of the Workingman's Savings
RACE TRACK SWINDLE
ORIGINAL, SPECTACULAR, CONFIDENCE
GAME.
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One Man Buncoed Out of Nearly Five
Thousand Dollars by the Sharpers
\+ Who
Escaped.
At Jacksonville, Fla.. Simon Jacobaon
of Tarboro. N. C., reported To
the police Thursday that he had beet:
swindled out of $4,300 in a fake
horse race in St. Augustine last week,
showing that Henry Wagne", of New
York, who lost $10,000 in a similar
manner, was not the only victim of
ono of the most famous original and
spectacular confidence games ever re
corded.
'Jacobson practically retold the
story of Wagoner, only varying in
the manner in whioh ho was lured
into the game. He said he met the
swindlers on the smoker of a pullman
car one night several weeks
ago. The men represented them[
selves to be race horse men and
asked about accomodations on the
Florida tracks. One thin.j let to
another until Jacobson consented to
go to St. Aagustine and act as stakeholder
for th? other men.
The victim stated that the money
given him to hold amounted to hundreds
of thousands of dollars and as
his expenses were paid he only
thought it just to give the gambiers
security, placing in the same satchel
with the other money, his $4,300.
When the race finally came
off with the speculators making lavish
bets on the result.
A jockey fell off one of the horses
apparently doad and with blood stain
ed clothes. Just then a ge^otai ru*ilade
o-f revolver shots rang out and
when Jacobson's acquaintances appeared
shouting that he had better
run for his life, he was glad to turn
thp heavy satchel over to them. The
swindler's parting words were:
"We"' meet in Washington." It
appears that the swindlers had fixed
up a complete racing plant in
St. Augustine, the magnitude of
which settled all inquiries as to their
financial standing. Many persons
are thought to have been fleeced
without ever making a complaint. *
MR. FOSS SWORN IN.
Lead to Speakers Desk by His Brother,
a Republican.
The dernoorats of the house indulged
in a noisy demonstration on
Thursday when Representative Fobs.
of Illinois, a republican, escorted his
brother, Eugene N. Foss, of Massachusetts,
a democrat, to the speakers
desk to tak-e the oath of office. The
new 'Massachusetts member succeeds
the late (Mr. Lovering, a republican.
The republicans remained quietly In
their seats as the democrats arose
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enmasse, appotuuiiiK tmu uucci mg v??
the front now of the sneakers gallery
A sweet faced old lady, joined
in the applause, she was the mother
of the two brothers, who were the
centre of attraction. Never before
have brothers of opposite political
faith been members of the house at
the saine time. *
WATCH MAN ASS A SSI NATHD
llis Head Almost Blown Off by I/)ud
of Shot.
Assassinated whilo making his
rounds. William M. Holland, night
watchman at the Altlanta Ice and
Goal company plant, was found dead
early Friday morning, with his head
almtost blown off by a heavy load of
shot. Holland had pulled the boxes
011 his threo o'clock round and when
no further calls came in the telegraph
signal company made an investigation
and it was found the
wires had been cut. There is no
clue to the murderer. About a year
ago Holland was fired 011 by unknown
parties while making his
rounds at the same plant. *
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llat l*in Causes Explosion.
A hat pin was indirectly the cause
of the perhaps dying condition of (
Miss Annie Oliver in Massac county,
Illinois. K. If. Austin, a farmer, had
left a number of fulminating caps at
his house and Miss Oliver, who is a
neighbor, was curiously picking at
one of thorn with a hat pin, when it
exploded, probably fatally wounding
hor. . *
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The Texas Way.
Folowing hia sensational escape
from jail, Frank Hates was lynched
by hanging in the jail at Centerville,
Texas, last week. Dolly Bates, his
son, wa&also strung up, but was cut
clx>wn before life was extinct. The
two Hates were ringleaders in the
jail delivery. The were both wounded
as was also Jailer St. John. All
of the jail breakers were recaptured.
Young Hates was revived. *
Hank and Trust company at Allegheny,
had also pleaded nollo contend
re to a charge of falsifying the
books of the bank in connection with
the payment of $20,000 to Einstein.
The pleas of Winter and Anderson
came opportunely, for the district attorney
said that otherwise they were
to have been indicted Thursday.
j THAT MAN FOSS
His Coming Eagerly Looked For by the
Congressmen.
RECALLS NOTED SPEECH
Made by Cuahman, the "Fanny Man"
of the Hoa.se. from Washington,
Who Said He Wanted to See Fo??,
and Hidlculed Him and Other Heform
Kepublicaiis.
In his letter to The State McGhee
says scarcely any member's coming
to the house of representatives in
recent times has been looked forward
to with more interest than the
coming of Eugene N. Foss, the Democrat
who overturned the hide-bound
Republican district in 'Massachusetts.
The advent of Fobs is much talked
ubodt ana the speculation as to the
significance of his election goes
steadily on.
It is interesting in connection with
it to recall a speech made in the
house of representatives on June 28,
1 906, by the late Francis W. Cushman,
a representative from Washington,
and onje> of the most brilliant
members of the house while u<*
was here. Cushmau was the "funny
man" of the house also, and always
when he arose to speak there were
as many members in ineir seais as
could be there, as well as clotse attention
in the galleries.
Speaking of Canadian reciprocity
and of the reciprocity convention
which had just been held Cushman
said. "One of the prime movers?I
might say, one of tho major prophets?of
the late national reciprocity
convention was one Eugene N.
Foss, a free trade theorist from Boston,
and a tariff agitator by profession.
It has never been my pleasure
to meet that man Foss, but I
have a growing and an almost unconquerable
desire to see him. He
must be wonderfully and fearfully
made."
The brilliant and satiric Cushmai j
died two y*vars ago; else he would
have been now able to gratify his
desire. That is unless something
else had overtaken him as has overtaken
several other stand-pat Republicans
to whom in the same speech
ho paid glowing tributes. For if
Cushman had lived he would have
seen other alarming things besides
th/o coming to congress of this "wonderfully
and fearfully made" Foss.
Notable among the strange happenings
is with respect to Senator Cummins
of Fowa. In that speech Cushman
further said:
"And who were the men that attended
this so-called 'reciprocity
convention?' Nearly all of them were
free traders. Some few of them had
donned a protection coat in order to
gain admittance underneath that
guisp; but underneath the coat?
down next to his hide?was a free
trade shirt. In that gathering the
free traders tasted a congenial atmosphere
and felt that their feet
were planted on familiar ground.
"Chief among them was Gov. Albert
B. Cummins of Iowa, the most
prominent political orphan that
America has produced in a geuer1- i
tion.
"Dear Old Iowa?the commonwealth
that gave me birth, and
around whose groves and orchards
the gentle landscapes are clustered
the ^richest and happiest memories
of my life," etc.
"And what great names has Iowa
given to the world and to fame?
Their names are legion:
"There is William B. Allison, who
for more than forty years has helped
to gnide and guard the destines of
the American republic.
"There is William Peters Hepburn,
the cliearest-minded statesman and
the greatest debater upon this floor
of tho irreatest nariiamentary body
on earth.
"There is Jonathan P. Dolliver, a
patriot and an orator, whose fame
j has reached two continents." He
mentioned also John F. Lacy and
Leslie M. Shaw.
"And legions more of heroic
names coming trooping to my mind
today like the doves to the window
?names that Iowa has given to the
world and to fame.
"And thien?and then, there is
Cummins! Ye gods. I never expect
to live to see the day when the
great State that bore me would elect
a Republican governor, the back
door of whose executive chambei
opened directly into a Derncratic free
trade convention.
Poor Cushman! Put he was
spared the humilaiton of seeing this
same Cummins succeed hij reverel
Allison in the United State senate
Allison died in time to pre 'out his
own defeat, for Cummins was surely
headed this way? the great standpat
giant, Col. "Pete" Hepburn, defeated
by a Democrat ;John F. Lacy,
laid low by a Cummins follower;
Leslie M. Shaw, retired to private
life; Jonathan P. Dollvier join the
Cummins forces to prevent his own
defeat by the coming storm; and,
alas, this man Foss converting a
1 1,000 Republican majority into a
6,000 Democratic majority
And, perhaps, if he had lived, he
CASH TO BACK COOK.
Has Pledged Over $100,000 to Help
the Explorer.
On the authority of Capt. B. F.
Osbon, one of the moat active supporters
of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, tie
explorer it was announced in New
York, last week, that about $173,000
had been guaranteed toward a
fund to help Dr. * Cook prove his
claim to discovery of the North Pote.
"A promlnient Western man,"
Capt. Osbon said, "had pledged
$100,000 of this sum and Eastern
friends of the explorer the remainder.
Much more would be forth
coming if needed," he declared. C pt.
r\a r? otilH that h? wan in cr.prfls
VOI/Vlt ? *4 ?V ?. ? v.. . pondence
with the explorer, but he
would not indicate where letters to
Dr. C/ook were addressed. The captain
stated, however, that he e.cepcted
the doctor home by the latter
part of the present month.
PLAGUE OF ISLANDERS.
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Islands Being l>epopulated by Tuberculosis.
Declaring the sixty per cent, of
the natives of Unalaska and St.
George and St. Paul islands, in the
Aleutian group, are suffering from
tuberculosis, Surgeon Simpson, of
the revenue cutter Manning, reporting
under date of Oct. 12, 1909, says
that the disease exists in all forms,
and that there are only a few children
who do not show some eviI
donee of the disease. He adds, how
ever, that many of them improved
I during the summe* of 1909' under
| treatment. Kfforts, are being made
to intsruct the natives in cheeking the
disease. If the natives of St. Paul
had an abundance of water, which
now has to be hauled some distance
in wagons, according to Dr. Simpson,
they would keep their houses
cleaner and the danger of the spread
of infection would be greatly lessened.
KIND OF OOW TO HAVE.
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Produces Nearly Thirty Pounds of
Butter a Week.
The world's record for milk and
butter production was smashed recently
by a cow belonging to Eugene
Lamunion, living near Solsville, N.
J. In a thirty day test in which
dairy sharps from the Cornell Agricultural
college had charge of the
animal, she made a record- of 80
IKHimls of milk a day and 29,27
pounds of butter a week. She not
only broke the world's record for a
cow of under three years of age but
she raised the world's record for
any cow which had been 27.06 pounds
of butter in seven days. Ix>ckhart
de Kol No. l u l,5 4 4 is trie |>oeuc
name of the extremely practical cowFarmer
Lamunion has been offered
$2,500 for his animal hut refuses
to look at that amount. *
SENDS IflVE ADDfiKS.
To the Girl Who (N>uld Not Reciprorate
His Ix>ve.
Two wriggling adders, each measuring
nearly 2 4 inches long, were in
a paper box which Mlcael Hasselbar
confided to Miss Alice Stuart, of New
York, with a request to give it to
her chum, Rosie Cabana, wh > had
spurned his advances. Inquisititive
members of Miss Stuart's family lifted
the cover of the box, which she
had taken home after a vain attempt
to find Miss Cabana. One of the
snakes crawled partly out, but was
jammed back and the box and its
contents was rushed to the police
station, where the snakes were killed.
Hasselbar was arrested on a
charge of disorderly conduct.
Old Couple Seeks Divorce.
P. B. Alverson, aged 9 4 years, is
the defendant in divorce proceedings
instituted by Mrs. Luck Alverson
aged GS years, in the Seventeenth
district court. They were married in
1880 and their domestic life, accord
ing to the allegations of the petition,
had been extremely peaceful until
a few months ago. The plaintiff
charges cruelty. *
One Year for Night Kider.
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The jury in the case of Roone
Rush, charged with taking part in a
raid upon Rycusburg, K> , on the
night of Feb. 3, 1908, found a verdict
of guilty and fixed the penalty
at one year in the penitentiary Thirty
other persons are under indictment
on the same charexj.
Mouse Solved Unfiling Problem.
A tin mouse, with a thread tied to
its leg, solved the problem ot getting
!>n olootrie wire through a 197-foot
pipe in the Vinery building1 in Norfolk,
Va., last week. Tape was ti d
to the thread and the wire tradn
Mechanics had been trying to got the
wire through the bent pipe f'or several
days.
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Many Mules I turn.
Sixty-three mules belonging to
to the Westmoreland Coal Compan>
wore burned to death in a fire dotroying
the company's stables al
Pittsburg, Pa., Sunday afternoon.
miight have seen more b fore tliif
year is out. It is thought so ir
Washington, anyway.
Charlotte, N. C., F
m?us May
by declaring heNelf free and
thus arousing tlr other twelve
adelphia I>eclar?lon followed
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Bribe Taker Resigns.
At Albany, N. Y., Senator J. P.
Allds, who' was accused by Senator
Benn Conger of having accepted a
bribe to further the interests of certain
bridge legislation in the New
York Legislature, has filed his resignation
with the Secretary of State.
The investigating committee may
attempt to whitewash Ballinger, but
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lie wl'll nave 10 go as ne is aii^.-?uy
convicted by public opinion.
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On Trial for Murder. I
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girl, Clovie Tedder, was placed on
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