Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-12-11
MOVES SIDE OF CASE
Judge Noyes will be Ready to Meet the
Charges of the Lane Syndicate
atWashington
Af6davits Setting Forth the Tactics of
Men who Tried to Bluff OF Buy
the Judge.
Some Sensational Allegations as to the
Methods Contemplated by the
Lane Crowd.

Journal: Judge Arthur II. Noyes
of 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 an Investigation at
any moment.
A. K. Wheeler Of Minneapolis, his
private secretary, called on the attor-
ney general of the United States today
and filed w..l that official five affi-
davits, setting forth in detail Judge
Noyes' side of the case, and in the ag-
gregate these affidayits are an express
denial of the charges of malfeasance
in Office preferred against Judge Noyes,
and they form counter charges of cor
Tnption against his accusers, which, if.
possible, are more serious than those
of which Judge Noyes himself has
been made the target. s
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 Noyes 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.
II the charges which have been made
are true he-Mil be impeached and re-
moved from Office, and possibly inn
prisoned; but the government intends
to proceed on the assumption that
Judge Moves 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 af1idavits
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 afidavits 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. K. Wheeler.
Reese and Heron are the men who
have figured in the numerous news
paper stores.
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-
scepting a DriIbe. He declined, and
was then told to find some one who
would make such an affidaYit. He
found Reece, who agreed for ST 600 to
make the affidavit. Before doing so,
however, Reeee laid the whole matter
before the United States clerk Of
court, who told him to go ahead and
make the affidavit as requested and
then make counter afldavit expos
ing the affair He made the afIidavit
for the Lane people, and was paid $50
instead Of the promised ST 600 Inn
mediately thereafter he made the
counter affidavit. s$
This is a brief statement of the con-
tents Of two Of the Reace affidavits
filed with the attorney general today.
They go into minute detail and show
plainly every step OF the proceeding
from start to finish. slsli
The third Reece affidayit relates to
the trip from Nome to Seattle on
the steamship ST. Paul. light was
aboard the ship, having run away
from the court at Nome, which was
waiting to punish him as a result OF
Reece's exposures. On the way down
Reese was asked to make another affi-
dayiL to the effect that anything he
might have said in the counter am
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 assoeiates and finally how he
was threatened with arrest on some
fictitious charge unless he would make