The morning call., 1895-01-17

trickery of the trust company and their
attorney" said he last night, "a letter was
indicted to me this evening by them and
mailed at the Postoffice at P. NJ. 1t
was addressed to the Mills building.
Now there is where the mean piece OF
business lies. They knew very well
O'Clock and thought that 1 could not. get
the letter until tomorrow morning.
incidentally the "trust company re-
ferred to Familiarity is the California Sale
Deposit and Trust Company, an institution
of long and unimpaired financial standing,
and the attorneys are the well-known firm
of Gunnison Booth and Bartnett. Neither
firm is at all supposed in the popular mind
to consist of society of highbinders.
''Now about the charge made by George
Schultz, stakeholder" continued Mana
ger Sheehan, 81 could have him arrested
for perjury any day, for | can prove he is
a perjurer. He made a statement in a
legal complaint that caused to be printed
in the Journal of Commerce notice to the
effect that the annual meeting of stock
holders would be held on the fourth floor
of the Mills building. Now that is not
true
''Such statement appears in the sworn
complaint" was suggested to Mr.. Shee-
han. 'The avowal is plain enough, but is
it not true?"
''Well, few papers were printed with
fourth floor in the notice, but that was
corrected in the general issue. l suppose
it was mistake they discovered after
few papers were printed, as it did not ap-
pear that way in all that particular edition.
We can show you the papers with tenth
floor in the notice of meeting"
The trust company's attorneys, strange
to say, can produce copies with "Fourth
al I'll i1o+ ho -
ing signed by "John f. Sheehan, Secre-
tary," as required by the banking laws of
California.
'They make fuss about my compensa-
ton. really don't believe that the trust
company wants to manage the Peoples
Home Bank at all, but it has been drawn
into the matter, and, | guess, would
about the compensation given me
in the last-six months. 1t was cheerfully
accorded me by the board of directors, and
without a question, and isn't that enough?
But it was not worth $500 month to me.
You must remember | had many expenses
to meet that l would mot have had in
another line of business, and that spent
greal deal of money. Let me tell you L
had to pay a man to watch l was not assas-
who got on the inside of the depositors
went so far as to threaten to murder me.
l had detective watching them.
"There's Pike-an opium fend'and anar-
chist, who was driven out of Colorado and
his wife was arrested the other day for
burglary. Why, at a meeting in his house
one night-a meeting of the depositors'
committee-his wife urged the gang on.
y gu go to the houses of Sheehan, Thorn
ton and Watt, and the others; threaten
their wives that you will kill those fellows,
and then you have got them said She
"And | was threatened with assasslna-
tion," added S. K. Thornton.
sit is claimed by the opposition" Shee-
han said, continuing his story, "that we
refused to allow. the trust compan3yy's ex-
perts to investigate the books. That is
another false statement Now, why do
they do such things as that?
eve allowed them to examine every
thing up to ten days before closing of the
stock as required by law. I'm more than
surprised that they should make such mis-
leading statements. Their experts were
only too welcome to everything in the
Office.
1.-The only time I objected is when we
found out that they had leagued them
selves with Dick Mcdonald and Liver
nash, who is villain-a mere 'qulmp.' 1t
was plain the trust company and the gang
in with their attorneys made an at
tempt to get control of DIR. Jenning-
sons stock to vote it, and with
other stock to get control of the board of
directors. | have plenty of proof they Of
ferek to buy Jenningsons stock. They
wanted to get the control of the bank"
''To loot it, Thornton interrupted.
''To loot it" assented Manager Sheehan.
at was a scheme to put the Me ona z
gang-Pike and Livernash and Mccarthy
and a tailor and the rest-into control.
1 saw how the scheme was being engi-
neered, and it was then that we objected to
an investigation of the banks books.
Chow can Pike and Mccarthy spend so
much of their time around the trust COM
pany's place? 1t was those agitators who
first started this thing of getting the de-
positors to go into a scheme to collect
their money. 1 suppose 1 per cent
would pay them pretty well. The
trust company went into it without
thinking - honestly enough | have no
doubt-but they have injured themselves
by so doing, and 1 understand they would
be glad to get out of it now"
''Twenty five hundred ---. I call
them that because I'm hot at them," said
Attorney J. Alva Watt, referring to the
$500 persons who assigned accounts
to the Trust Company for collection.
He Just then entered into the con-
81 agree with everything general
Sheehan has said. They got together and
were led by these fellows such as Pike and
Mccarthy. The others dropped out one
by one and disappeared from the COM
mittee But what is the use in talking
about such people. They wanted to get
hold of the bank and tried every means
possible, but couldn't make it CO."