The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-06

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fil6d almost to fuhocation bV crowd
of politeiant' rev paper men ana laW-
senator Quay pushed his way
through the crowd TO the space 10 front
of the magistrate'S desk, promptly at
- o'clock He was accnmp anied ~
Richard r. Quay ~. Mckee, Lieuten7
ant Governor lr Lyon ana Bonoa-
nan Lane, ~ o1lurer Beacon oe-
MED 4 SEA ~ district attorney.
n Nus p, shihlll H md A. 8. i. Shields.
Two OF tha lights Of the local
bar, rapi liited The accused.
Afr. Grah1m, who conducted his case
] without assistance, arrived eoon otter.
The httorneya for the defense opened
the proceedings with q fruitles8 eiiort
70 secnfs from tho district attorney the
names q the per1ons re1ponsible Tor the
proso odntion,
6hiy Thrte WttneuSes.
There Eere only hree witpesSea. The
drst was Thomas 81. Barlow, receiver
tor the Peopiss bank who 9 also .
special assistaht district attorney.
In RntWer q Question9 py5lAr. Gte-
ham, MI BRFloW stated TINT m his ca.
pacity as reeeifer be opened che deaa
cashiar'6 de6f md found among other
things q numb % letters end tele-
grams and Q toq containing memof-
andaf 10 Hnplslt handWri ting. This
book referred 10 bH Lawyer Shields aa
,sriif red hOols2 was about a foot
sddr re and contained 200 pages. II
dkhfed sensationally In the days pro-
ceedlngE and was the subject Of much
hitter controversy.
After Mr.. Graham had obtained pos
session Of the letteg, teiegFams and
book, M. Barlow Ta6 excused and Al
bert l. trhbbr, receiving teller Of the
PEOPLES bank, from 1898 until i closed
on slInf6h % OF this year, was placed on
a md. He Identified the handwrtt-
in9 "a the book as that OF CaShier Hop
ltlh8 Identified number Of letters In
Senator ouay'a handwriting written 20
Honiting and bearing dates from early
IN Bec6mber, 1891, until February 1888,
also a letter written by state Treasurer
Haywood from Harrisburg TO President
MoAlanes, OF the Peoples bank, on July
81, 1896, but said BY District Attorney
Graham to have been enclosed In an ems
.Veiope 10 Cashier Hopkins; and q letter
and telegram from Mr. Haywood to
Hopkins.
Mr.. Graham did mot ,aucceed In get
ting the "red book IN evidence until
ne placed his third witness, Mr. Gold
smith, an expert accountant VINO mao
worked on the banks books on the
stand. ~
Ths Memorandum Beck.
After ali the letters mad been read,
they got down to the memorandum. It
was stated that the entries extended
from May ], 1894, to the date OF the
closing OF the bank, a period OF nearly
four years. Only a few Of the entries
were read. They showed that from
April 30, 1897, TO June Is, q period OF
fortV-slx days, the state deposit IN the
bank was $525,O00 from June is to June
10. Il was S555, 900, from June 10 TO Oc-
tober 81, It was $5e5,OO0. From this to-
tal there was deduction a. ~ per
cent, evidently as Mr.. Graham explain
ed for the bnnk's use, then an entry
"loss 100000, Quay, 1874 days" For
this period the interest was computed
m the book as 1884, one-third Of
which $1,slS SS. was marked paid, C
n. Nc" IN October, 1895. there was
computation Of interest on state depos-
II amounting to S1,S5Sis2, OF which "
45l IL 0f irti I1Rtitpas -. aslit.e. 9
ed to @. a. Mex" The name OF "C. II.
Mckee, 11S Diamond street., Mckees
Pittsburgh address, was entered IN an-
other part OF the book. In referring %
the book. Mr., Graham SAID that In all
entries OF the amount Of the state de-
poslt there was q deduction OF the
amount Mr.. Quay had in use and there
never was one dollar OF interest credit
ed against II. He said there were me-
uuent entries Of 'Due O." "Due u. 8.
o." and "Due Quay" Mt. Shapeleigh
after the district attorney had conelud-
ed his presentation OF facts, said:
'In ali these transactions there iB not
an instance to prove that either Senator
QUAY or his son Richard, engaged IN
speculatlons with the state money.
They bought, and ordered bought shares
of stock which they paid for with their
Individual funds and that 10 proven by
the letters read by the district attor-
neV."
Mr.. Shields referred several times IN
the course OF the hearing to Mr.. Gra.
hams arguments as Swallow stump
speeches"
al the close of the testimony, the
uamorandum book was passed around.
Senator Quay looked through Il with
his son, and Mr. shapeleigh watching
over his shoulder. Suddenly Mr.
shapelelgh stepped up to the magls-
trate's desk with the book and laid II
down, eXclaiming:
1.-THE name has been written BY q
different person at q different time"
Mr.. Graham denied this and the
magistrate expressed the opinion that
the writing was oil done by the same
person.
All through the ordeal Senator Quay
bore an air Of composuee, he took an
active part in the case and prompted
his lawyers frequently. All the letters
and other documents were submitted
to him and he passed judgment on ex-
cry point that was raised. The district
attorney had some difficulty in deciph-
ering the senator's handwriting occa-
sionally, but the latter always came 90
his aid and finished the reading usual
Is, however, in a voice that was not
audible ten feet away.
After the magistrate had bound the
three men over for court, the senator
and his son went back to their rooms at
the Hotel Walton. where there were con-
stant streams OF visitors.
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