Evening star., 1894-11-27
Fidelity Officers to Be Arraigned To-
morrow Morning.
BAIL GUARANTEED FOR Mr.. DINGMAN
Mr.. George H. Walker Returns
From Pittsburg.
WHAT ATTORNEY HENRY SAYS
Special From a Staff Correspondent.

Special From a Staff Correspondent.
PITTSBURG, Pa, November 27.-Har.
rison Dingman was taken out of the Cen
trail station yesterday afternoon to give
bail for his appearance when required to
answer the charges filed against him as
president of the Fidelity Building and
Loan Association and its successor, the
Columbia Building and Loan Association.
Altogether there have been fourteen sep
arate informations filed with the authori-
ties. all charging Mr.. Dingman and his as
sociates with conspiracy to defraud.
Allison Nailor had authorized the Wash
ington agent of r. G. Dun & Co., Mr..
Riddle to secure bond for Mr.. Dingman in
the sum of $4,000, or as much more as
might be necessary. and the commercial
agency had notified it's agent here, a. B.
Wigley, to give the bond. Mr.. Wigley had
already given the bond for 81, 500 to secure
Mr.. Dingman's appearance tomorrow MORN
ing to answer the first of the charges
brought, the larger bond now required
being for the additional cases.
Harry Standiford and George II. Walker
had come from Washington to represent
Mr.. Dingman's friends.
When the party assembled in Judge DON
ohue's office to give bail Mr.. Wigley found
he would not be able to qualify In the full
amount of real estate required, and the
matter was postponed. This morning a
telegram was received by Mr.. Dingman.
stating that Congressman Hopkins would
be in Pittsburg today to go on his bond Tor
any amount.
Messrs Dingman and Wall and the clerks
in the Pittsburg office of the Fidelity Com
pany, who are under arrest, will be ar
raigned tomorrow morning. They viii all
waive an eXamination-that is, the present
intention, at least No arrangements have
so far been made to secure bail for Vice
President Wall l saw MIR. DinSman tris
morning.
Mr.. Dingman's Statement.
II know no mere about the financial
operations of the brarch offices of the lii
deity Company than you do" he said
earnestly. "All business appertaining to
them was conducted by Mr.. Wall, as man
ager; Mr. Tweedale, as secretary, and the
other officers My duties were entirely in
connection with the Washington office. If
anything wrong has been done, which l
do not believe, 1 am entirely innocent of
any participation or knowledge of it,
Attorney Henry of the Fidelity Company
said to me this morning that under the
charter of the company, issued in Virginia,
the association had done nothing against
the laws of Virginia, or the United States,
or the penal laws of Pennsylvania.
Superintendent of Police OMara, who is
conducting the prosecutions, says he will
convi,t all the defendants. Fourteen in
formations have been regularly filed
against them, and he said numbers OF In
vestors in the association were coming in
all the time with their claims. G. e.
MIR. Wall Highly Indignant.
None but his attorneys We're admitted
to see Andrew Wall until The Star corre-
spondent went in today. He is confined
in a cell en- the upper tier of the central
station prison. He was highly indignant
over his Incarceration. He denied in toto
all charges made against the Fidelity
Company and said he would not attempt
to get bail until the preliminary hearings
were over, as extra charges would be made
in order to cause his rearrest and his
continued trouble and Inconvenience.
He claims there is plot behind the pros
ecutiou and promises big developments
hereafter. He said that Dingman had
nothing to DO with the work of the branch
Offices of the association.
The impression prevailing here is that a
tedious trial will grow out of the cases.
1t is expected that Interesting proceedings
will occur at the hearing tomorrow, as
nearly all the local certificate holders in
the company will be present, and 1T is be-
lieved to be the intention of the dissatis-
fled to file further charges in large num-
bcrS.