The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-07-11
sISoERrY IN 1T.

sINGERLY IN 1T.
Martin and Porter and all Of Quay's
people we're working for Crawford, and
the result was overtures were made to
Singerly to draw lennon out of tho fight.
He was promised that if lennon was
taken out 100000 OF State money would
be placed on deposit in the Chestnut
street bank.
This was done. lennon was taken
out of the fight and the 500, 1000 is in
the bank now. Crawford got the place
and Mayor Filter got angry at what he
I.claimed to be broken promise.
Bardsley had paid Hugh Mullen $500
to redeem the promise to the Mayor.
H. H. Yard, he said, got great deal
OF the Keystone Bank money. lie was
in the pool with Lucas and Marsh and
Marsh allowed him to overdraw his &C
count 500, 900, even when the run on the
bank was going on.
Widner and Elkins, the traction mag
mates, he said, never sold him any trac-
ton stock orhad any dealings whatever
with him. He said Judges Fnletter and
Ashman had borrowed money from
him. The money, he understood, was
simply an advance on their salaries.
They did not know whetherhe waslend-
ing the State moneys, city moneys, or
his own.
H. II. Yard was then called, but did
not respond, rs his case had been ap-
pealed to the Supreme Court.
The committee voted to instruct the
City Solicitor to take measures to COM
pei Yard to obey.
wANAMAKER's DENIAL.
Postmaster General Wanamaker, who
had entered the room while Bardsley's
statement was being read, then stepped
forward and requested that he be
allowed to testify. He said that his
interest in the Keystone bank arose out
of his acquaintance with President
Lucas and his brother when they were
young merchants. he stated that he
never pledged the over-issued stock
after he was told it was an over-issue,
and it was out of his hands at the time.
He did not know II. II. Yard, and had
never met Mrs. Lucas but once, and
that was at an interview about the over
issued stock.
Mr.. Wanamaker said the last money
received from the bank was about
year before the bank was closed. As to
the story told by Bardsley to McWade
that he had threatened to close the bank
unless he was paid for the over-issued
stock, and that Lawyer Sulzberger and
johnson had forced him to return it,
Mr.. Wanamaker said it was absolutely
false.
Granville B. Haines and Samuel B.
Huey came to Washington to see him
about the over-issued stock and he told
them they must settle for 1t, and that If
they did not, in justice to himself, he
should inform the Comptroller of the
Currency. After the bank closed he
gave up the stock.
Bardsley's statesment that Marsh OBJ
tanned from him 100000 for Wana-
maker in March, 1890, he said was ab-
solutely untrue, and invited the COM
mittee to inspect his books.
Mr.. Wanamaker was then informed
by q member of the committee that
during their examination of the stock
book Of the Keystone bank they had
found 5000 shares OF stock in his name,
in addition to the 25l5 shares which he
testified had been given him by Lucas
to use as collaboration deal in Reading
stock.
PERFECTLY SQUARE.
"when appeared before this com
mittee before" said Mr.. Wanamaker,
az did not suppose the committee
wanted to hear of private operations"
That some of the 2,515 shares had been
at one time in his name, he did not
state, as he had not used them in any
operation. In regard to the stock
which had been found in his
name, 625 shares OF it, Mr.. Wanamaker
said, was held by Irwin and Toland, his
bankers, MS collateral. This reduced 1t
to 1000 shares OF stock. OF these five
blocks OF 200 shares each were issued in
his name, but thepowerof attorney had
never been endorsed by him, and they
could never be used. OF these shares he
had absolutely no knowledge.
~ have been Just foolish enough all
my life to do those things, and / got
10000 on the stock and gave it to Lucas,
who wanted to borrow 1t. It was paid
of by the Lucas estate, and they got
the stock back"
"0f the doother unused five blocks OF
stock, my impression is that Mr.. Lucas
OF first intended to ask for larger loan
and so issued them. Itwas never used,
however, as it could not have been with
out my endorsement. know OF mother
stock, but remember that ten yearsago,
when Lucas was securing control Of the
bank, he came to me and said he did
not want the people to know who GER
tain stock belonged to before certain
time, and he placed some in my name"
Mr.. Wanamaker then read letters
from Comptroller Lacey, and Assistant
Secretary Nettleton, showing that he
had never delayed the receivership OF
tho keystone bank.
After the hearing Mr.. Robert Alex
ander, counsel for John Bardsley, read
letter from John Bardsley stating that
McWade came to Bardsley as q friend
and not from the papers, and then went
and wrote out lot OF stuff. What 1t
is Bardslay did not then know, and he
might have put stuff in his mouth
Bardsley never said and that he (Bards-
lcy) did not want to injure any man.
Important Insurance Case.
BosToN, July 1O.-Judge Dunbar, in