The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1901-08-15
EVIDENCE is STARTLING.
Determined Effort to Impeach Judge
Harvey, of Montana.

: claimed TO have to sustain their
: charges OF corruption against Judge
: +. ". Harvey, of the state supreme
: court, who. they allege, decided the
: big Minnie Healy mining case in ia
: vor of f. Augustus Heinze. because a
woman in the employ OF the Heinze
people Influenced him to do go. was
presented in court to day The evil
dence is contained in great mass OF
: affidavits made by persons claiming
to be familiar with the habits of
Judge Harvey and the woman in the
case, Mrs Ada X. Bracket The al
legations are SO startling that the
community is shocked by the dis
closure.
The chief evidence is furnished by
two persons, Miss f. l.. Walters and
J. W. Waters. who represent that
they had been on most intimate
terms of friendship with both Judge
! Harvey and Mrs Bracket The par
ties were all guests at the Butte hotel
prior and subsequent to the trial OF
the Minnie Healey case and about the
time that Judge Harvey rendered his
decision by which he gavea $4,000
900 property to Heinze upon the
payment by him of $4,000 to the |
Amalgamated representative in the
case.
Miss Walters and MIR Waters tes- |
tify that Mrs. Bracket told them re-
peatedly that she was in the employ |
OF Heinze and John McGinnis, the lat
ter Heinze's chief manager, and that
McGinnis had promised her $780,
600 and had employed her to take
care of Judge Harvey and do other
secret work for the Heinze company.
Harvey, so the witnesses say, visited
Mrs Bracket i'll her rooms frequent
ly, and the two were often under the
influence of liquor. 1t is alleged that
Judge Harvey once told Miss Wal
ters that drink was his curse, but
that Mrs Bracket was to blame for
it all. He said he would 60 to his ,
wife and children and let drink alone. |
On one occasion, the affidavits de
clare, Harvey and Mrs. Bracket got :
into IA cheated alteration and he !
to have one OF her friends
court, whereupOn she call !;
ed him "a id sOft-headed old ,
drunken fool and said that if he
dared do as lie had threatened she
would have him thrown from the :
bench, and that she had the power I
to do it, and he knew it. He then
promised to be good and to obey her !
IN every suggestion. On the day that
he made his decision he told Mrs.
that he had signed an order ,
that would cause the Amalgamated .
to do some thinking and
that from then on he would not let | =
up on the company, but would con- I
tinue to give it hell. Mrs. Brack-
ett urged him to do so. and he told .
her to keep her eye on him and watch.
Mrs. Bracket also asked him to
watch her, as there was 100000 in
t for her. The parties were out on a i,
,arOusal one night, according to the .
lttidavits. and became very drunk.
Harvey continually told Mrs Brack-
ett that he loved her, and then threw !
\ handful of money at her. She pick
I'd it up, gave him $50, and retained
$50, which she said she would play
ln the races
After the exposure came Judge Har-
ley told Waters that he was going )
20 call on Mrs Bracket. because he
owed her so much
Harvey is quoted as saying that
he earth is not big enough to hold 7
he who gave him away,
and that he would certainly kill him
1t is related that Mrs Bracket
and the Judge often occupied the same :
and witnesses testified
hat they visited neighboring towns
md resorts together, and remained 6,
over night. On such occasions Judge
Harvey, it is alleged, was usually !
-ery drunk.
Other evidence is that the Heinze 7
people rented a furnished house for :.
Mrs. Bracket on the West Side.
where she could entertain political
riends At this house she was fire.
luently visited by Judge Harvey.
Miss " alters SAYS Mrs. Bracket