Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-11
WHEELING w. VA, MORNING. JULY H. 1891

non was taken out OF the fight and the
500, 900 Is in the bank now. Crawford
got the place and Mayor Filter got an
cry at what he claimed to be broken
promise"
Bardsley then paid Hugh Mullen
$500 to redeem the promise to the
Mayor.
II. H. Yard, he said got a great deal
of the keystone Bank money. He was
in the pool with Lucas and Marsh, and
Marsh allowed him to overdraw his
account 100000 even when the run on
the bank was going on. Widner aud
ElkinS, the traction magnates, he said,
never sold him any traction stock or
had any dealings whatever with him.
He said Judges Finletter and Ashman
had borrowed money from him. The
money, he understood was simply an
advance on their salaries, they did not
know whether he was lending the State
money, city money or his own.
IL. ii. Yard was then called, but did
not respond, as his case had been ap-
pealed To the Supreme Court.
The committee voted to instruct the
City Solicitor to take measures 10 COM
pei Yard to obey.
Postmaster General Wanamaker, who
had entered tie room while BardSley'S
statement was being read, then stepped
forward aud requested that ne be al
lawed TO testify. He said that his
interest in the Keystone bank arose out
,f IA inv with prQGinAnt
Lucas and MS brother, when they were
young merchants. He stated that be
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 that the last
money received from the bank was
about a year before the bank was closed.
As TO the story told by Bardsley TO Nc
Wade, 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
10 return it, Mr. Wanamaker said was
absolutely false.
Granville +. Haines and Samuel b:
| Huey came to Washington to see him
| about the over issued stock, and he told
them they must settle for it, 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 statement that Marsh Oh
tanned from him 100000 for Wanna
maker in March, 1890, ne said was
absolutely untrue, and invited the com
mittee TO inspect his books.
Mr.. Wauamaker was then informed
by member of the committee that our
ing their examination of the stock BOOK
OF tho keystone bank they had FOUND
3. 200 shares Of stock in his name in ad-
dition 20 the isis shares which he
testified had been given him by Lucas
TO use as collateral for deal IN Reading
stock.
"When I appeared before this COM
rnjttee ,ho6Os SUPPOSE the committee
- sO near of private operations.
| That some of the 2,515 shares had been
o. one time in his name ne did not state,
as he had not used them in any opera
ton. 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, as collateral.
This reduced it to 1000 shares of stock.
OF these five blocks OF 200 shares each
were issued in his name, but the power
OF attorney had never been endorsed by
him, aud they could never have been
l cl ho hoH aA cot,to
" no knowledge. The next lot of five
blocks of 200 shares each, he said, 81
have been Just foolish enough all my
| life TO do those things, and got $40, 600
on the stock and gave it to Lucas, who
wanted to borrow it. 1t was paid off
by the Lucas estate and they got the
stock back"
'OI the other unused blocks Of stock,
my impression is that Mr.. Lucas at first
/ intended to ask for larger loan and so
| issued them. 1t was never used, how
/ ever, as il could not have been without
MY endorsement. l know Of no other
stock but remember that ten years ago
when Lucas was securing control of the
| bank he came 10 me and said he did not
want people TO know who certain 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
the keystone Bank.
After the hearing Mr.. Robert Alex
ander, counsel for John BardSley, read
letter from john BardSley, stating that
McWade came TO BaldSley as friend,
and not from the papers, and then went
and wrote out lot of stuff. What it
is. Bsrdsley did not then know, aud he
might have put stuff in his mouth Bard
sley never said, and that he (BardSley)
did not want to injure any man.