Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-12-14
Judge Noyes will be Ready to Meet the
Charges of the Lane Syndicate
at Washington.
Af6davits Setting Forth the Tactics of
Men who Tried to Bluff or Buy
the Judge.
Some Sensational Allegations as to the
Methods Contemplated by the
Lane Crowd.

or the federal court in Alaska has
taken the initiative in the matter of
the charges which have been made
against him by the Lane syndicate of
San Francisco, and the case is now in
sucn form in Washington that the
judge is ready for IN investigation at
any moment.
A. X. Wheeler Of Minneapolis, his
private secretary, called on the attor-
ney general OF the United States today
and filed WI that official five afi-
davits, setting forth in detail Judge
Noyes' side Of the case, and in the ~
gregate these atIidavits are an express
denial OF the charges of m]alfeasance
in office preferred against Judge Noyes,
and they form counter charges of cor
ruption against his accusers, which, if
possible, are more serious than those
Of which Judge Noyes himself has
been made the target.
The affidavits tell a connected story,
and Judge Noyes' many friends in the
northwest, and also the many friends
of Alex Mckenzie of North Dakota,
who is interested with Moves in this
matter, will be glad to know that Off
cial sentiment here inclines distinctly
towards Judge Moves. Not that he
will be screened if guilty; far from it.
If the charges which have been made
are true he will be impeached and re-
moved from Office, and possibly i'm
prisoned; but the government intends
to proceed on the assumption that
Judge Noyes is innocent until proven
guilty.
The fact that Judge Noyes has sent
his private secretary to Washington,
accompanied by H. G. Steel, editor Of
the Nome Daily News. to remain all
winter and to take such aggressive
steps as may by them be deemed best,
and the further fact that the first of
these steps is the filing today of five
lengthy and circumstantial affidavits
with the attorney general of the United
States, would suggest that it is not the
intention of Judge Moves to rest easy
under the charges which have been
made, but rather that he purposes to
do a little of the fighting himself.
The aftidavits submitted by Judge
Noyes' direction to Attorney General
Griggs are made by three persons.
Three are by p. F. Reese. one by
Charles Heron, one by A. X. Wheeler.
Reese and Heron are the men who
have figured in the numerous news
paper stories.
Heron is the detective employed by
the Lame syndicate to secure evidence
of various sorts for them. He was
asked by his employers to make an
affidavit accusing Judge Noyes of ac-
cepting a bride. He declined, and
was then told to find some one who
would make such an affidavit. He
found Reece, who agreed for 81, 900 to
make the affidavit. Before doing so,
however, Reece laid the whole matter
before the United States clerk of
court, who told him to go ahead and
make the affidavit as requested and
ing the affair. He made the affidavit
for the Lane people, and vas paid 500
instead Of the promised 81 900. I'M
mediately thereafter he made the
counter affidavit.
This is a brief statement of the con-
tents Of two of the Reece aftidavits
filed with the attorney general today.
They go into minute detail and show
plainly every step of the proceeding
from start to finish.
The third Reece affidavit relates to
the trip from Nome to Seattle on
the steamship St. Paul. Knight was
aboard the ship. having run away
from the court at Nome, which was
"dIt1uS W pulllSu It'll DIS q ISSull Ot
Recess exposures. On the way down
Reese was asked to make another aft
davit to the effect that anything he
might have said in the counter aft
davit was untrue. This he declined
to do. The statement is lengthy and
narrates how Reese was bounded on
the ship and later in Seattle by Knight
and his associates and finally how he
was threatened with arrest on some
fictitious charge unless he would make
an affidavit which Knight wanted.
But he escaped from the gang and his
statements stand as originally made.
The Heron affidavit. filed here yes
terday, contains some matters which
have not until now come to the knowl-
edge of the public. Heron was in
structed to pay 500 to somebody who
vas to kill Alex Mckenzie by knock
ing him On the head as he was on his
way to his home at night. Heron
was informed that $65, 900 had been set
aside for the purpose of Ibribing Judge