The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-04
SENATOR QUAY ARRESTED
He II Charged With the Misuse
Of Certain State Funds.
THEY ARE AFTER HIM
His Lawyers Say the Arrest IL Simply
an Attempt to Manufacture Cam
psign Thunder and That 1t win
React In His Favor

II
rumors that warrants have been issued
for the arrest Of United States Senator
Quay. charging the misuse of state
funds. District Attorney Graham this
afternoon stated that warrants had been
issued charging Quay. his son. Richard
r.. Quay. ex-State Treasurer Benjamin
]. Haywood and Charles r. Mckee
with conspiracy with the late John s.
Hopkins, formerly cashier OF the Peo-
pies bank. to make use of the states
| funds in stock speculation. The affi-
| davft upon which the warrants were
| sworn out was made by Detective
Myers. who is an attache of the district
attorneys Office. Hopkins. who is named
| In the afhdavit, committed suicide in
March last and the examination OF the
banks condition shows that its assets
were impaired. The bank went into
liquidation. The state had half a mill
ion dollars in the institution, but the
banks president, James McManes, made
this good.
The warrants have been placed in the
hands Of Pinkerton detectives FOR serv-
ington to-day. but refuses to talk Of the
arrest
Quay and his son Richard appeared
before Magistrate Jermon this after
noon and entered bail I'm the sum of
$1,000 each, for appearance Thursday.
Pittsburg. Oct. 3.-Richard Quay is
said to be in Atlantic City. Ex-State
Treasurer Haywood is in Minnesota and
Attorney Charles Mckee is in New York
city on business, hence none of these
mentioned in the case from the eastern
end of the state could be seen.
Lieutenant Governor Walter Lyons,
who is McKee's law partner. says the
incentive for the issuing Of the warrants
was to produce campaign thunder. but
he thought 1t a decidedly reckless piece
of business. Inasmuch as there was not
the slightest shadow Of wrongdoing on
the part of the defendants. IL would re-
act to such an extent upon the prose-
cutors that more harm than good would
result to them.
He said Richard Quay had been
loaned money from the Peoples bank TO
build the New Castle street railway.
and he presumed Senator Quay was
brought into the matter by his having
signed his sons note. Lieutenant Gov
ernor Lyon said the money had all been
paid back to the bank and the state
had lost nothing. The firm of Lyon &
Mckee acted as attorneys for the New
Castle street railway. but had no con-
nection whatever with the financial end
of IL. and he could not understand why
his firm had been brought into the mat
ter.
The warrants were for the arrest of
Matthew Stanley Quay, his son, Rich
ard X. Quay; ex-State Treasurer Ben
jamin j. Haywood and Charles II. Nc
Kee of Pittsburg. law partner of Lieu
tenant Governor Lyon. They are ac-
cused of conspiracy with Johns Hop
kins, formerly cashier of the Peoples
bank. to use public moneys for their
own use. Hopkins killed himself last
March, shortly before the banks fall
ure. Senator Quay and his son came
up from Atlantic City as soon as they
heard of their intended arrest. They
promptly surrendered themselves and
Magistrate Jerome placed them in s. 900
bail each for a hearing at noon next
Thursday. David II. Lane. the repub-
lican leader, became their bondsmen
and to-day they returned TO the sea-
shore.
BY advice OF their attorney. they de-
clined to discuss the case. They will
come back to the city on Wednesday,
so as to be in full time for the hearing.
Mr.. Haywood is in Montana and Mr..
Mckee is in New York. United States
Senator Penrose. who was with his col
league this afternoon. spoke freely af-
ter the latter's departure for Atlantic
City.
II presume Senator Quay will not
make any statement at this juncture,"
said he, regarding this last dastardly
attack of his malevolent enemies,
though he doubtless will at the proper
time. There is, however. no reason
why 7, as his colleague and principal |
friend, should be silent. Attempted as |
sassination of Quay's character has |
been almost the sole method OF attack |
employed by Senator Quays opponents |
of several years, and the methods they |
he.x. nI ls.x. "a T.
viciousness and vindictiveness, as has |
fully been demonstrated. AS the last |
despairing effort of INSCRIPTIONS con-
spirators. comes this brutal move OF |
the opposition, which they have had |
upon their programme for weeks, with !
the desperate hope that il might in |
some way aid in the election of a dem |
ocratic legislature. The people OF /
Pennsylvania are, above all things else. |
fair and just. and they can be trusted |
to see the motive snimating the small |
coterie OF disgruntled. defeated poll |
ticians who are responsible for the sem |
sational resort to the courts. In due |
time there will be a complete exposi- |
tion OF the true inwardness Of this lat |
est act in the drama OF character as |
sassination now so conspicuous a feat /
ure in Pennsylvania politics"
The warrants were made out on Sat- |
urday by Magistrate Jerome at the in |
stance Of District Attorney Graham |
and on the affidavit OF Charles F. Myers |
of the district attorneys Office. Mr.. |
Myers is a detective and acted on in /
formation furnished by Thomas w. |
Barlow. receiver of the Peoples bank. /
The affidavit on which the warrants /
were issued is as follows:
State of Pennsylvania, city and /
county of Philadelphia. SIS: Charles f. i
Myers. being sworn according to law /
doth deDose and say that Matthew /
Stanley Quay, Benjamin J. Haywood.
Richard r. Quay and Charles II. Nc /
Kee and other persons 90 this deponent /
did unlawfully combine. con-
federate, conspire and agree to and /
with each other. and the said persons
unknown. to use the public moneys of /
the commonwealth OF Pennsylvania for /
their own use and also did combine
conspire and agree to and |