Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-07
WOMAN BR|B||[S JUDGE
Sensational Evidence Given in
the AmalIamated Copper
Company's Suit.
Woman Said to Have Influenced
Judge Harvey in His
Recent Decision.
Boosted Of Her Action and
Claimed She Got 100000
for Her Service.

Butte. Mont. Aug. THE attorneys
Tor the Analgamated Copper Company
have made good their promise to furnisr
evidence in support of their charges
made against Judge e. w. Harvey OF
the district court that his conduct in re-
lation to the trial Of the Minnie Healy
mining case was such that the company
could not have a fair trial. and that he
decided the case in favor OF r. "A. Heinze
as the result of corruption and the in
fiuence Mrs. Ada H. Bracket had ac-
quired over him.
A great mass OF affidavits was filed
N court yesterday in support of the
company's motion for a new trial, and
the testimony contained in them is to
the effect that Mrs. Ada H. Bracket, a
stenographer who came to Butte from
Minneapolis, was employed by the
Heinze interests soon after the election
last fall to do work for the Heinze COM
pany in the legislature last winter and
in Butte.
She entered the Office OF Judge Har-
ney soon after election. and later went
to Helena and worked for Heinze in the
interest of his mining manager, John
MacGinnis. one of the candidates for
United States senator, and for certain
bills in the interest of Heinze and
against the Amalgamated Company.
After the meeting of the legislature she
returned to Butte.
The testimony contained in the affida-
Wits filed declares the woman frequently
boosted that she had Judge Harvey I'M
der her influence. and tells of his admis-
missions when drunk that he would do
anything for her.
The most damaging evidence is con-
tanned in the affidavits of female de-
tecttve named Miss Z. L. Walters, who
was set to work following Mrs. Brack-
EFT while the latter was trying to influ-
ence the judge. Miss Walters proved
the more clever of the two women. She
Won the confidence of Mrs. Bracket,
and the latter unbosomed herself to her.
She told about MacGinnis renting a
house for her, where she could entertain
her judicial and political friends.
When Harvey finally gave his decision
in the Minnie Healy case Miss Walters
declares she was present in the inter-
view between the judge and Mrs. Brack-
EFT. When he told her what he had done
she exclaimed that she was going to get
500, 900 for 1t. Judge Harvey declared
that he was going to throw 1t into the
Amalgamated Company from then on"
When away from Mrs. Bracket. the
afadavits say, Harvey declared drink
was hls curse and that Mrs Bracket
was the cause OF the whole thing and
was the cause of every bit of meanness
that he had done or been the cause of.
He admitted. according to the testi-
mony, she had much influence over him,
but that he was going back to his wife
in Illinois and quit drinking.
Mrs. Bracket complained to Miss Wal
tiers that John MacGinnis frequently
called her down." because Of tine fact
that she was seen too much in public
with Harvey and spent her money too
openly. He feared suspicion would be
aroused.
Another detective to whom Mrs.
Bracket and Judge Harvey are said to
have fallen easy prey was j. W. Waters,
who worked with Miss Waters. The
male detective worked upon the feelings
of Mrs Bracket and also got into the
confidence of Judge Harvey. The four
were almost constantly together in pri-
waite and public.
The two detectives were brought to
Butte and when Mrs. Bracket was sent
to Salt Lake after she was supposed to
have accomplished her work. with the
Judge, the detectives followed her and
formed her acquaintance, and became
Intimate with her. There and after the
parties returned to Butte they learned
nearly everything from Mrs. Bracket.
Other witnesses and detectives who
followed the Judge and the woman
about, testified the judge was usually
drunk and threw money at his compan-
ion.