The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-05-23
On Trial for MiSapplying
the Concerns Money.
ONE ADMITS GUILT
Former Employees of the Enterprise
National Bank, of Allegheny,
are Put on the Rack.

Pittsburg, May 23.-Thomas w.
Harvey, former paying teller of the
Enterprise national bank, of Ale
gheny, which failed two years ago for
over a million dollars, was placed on
trial before Judge Ewing In the Uni.
ted States district court Wednesday.
Harvey has been indicted on charges
OF making false entries. abstracting
funds, misappllcation of funds and aid
ing Lee Clark, the cashier in the mis-
application of funds. Clark subse-
quently committed suicide.
Edward p. Mcmillan, interest book.
keeper of the defunct institution, was
10 have been tried first, but following
a conference between the accused
man, his wife and attorneys In the
court room, he pleaded guilty to the
charges. The case of Harvey, charged
with the same offense, was then taken
up.
Three other employees OF the bank
and Forest Nichols, secretary to win.
lam b. Andrews, territorial delegate to
congress from New Mexico, will also
De tried In connection with the failure.
When the bank failed It was given
national publicity owing to published
rumors of the part politics had played
IN wrecking the institution. President
Roosevelt was asked In letter to in.
yestigate the failure personally. but
wrote a letter To the department OF
Justice concerning the affair. There
was state fund of 81 900 900 In the
bank aud this was later made good by
the directors OF the bank, a number OF
whom lost their fortunes In doing so.
Clark, the cashier, who was busi.
ness associate OF W. B Andrews. was
Interested In several New Mexico rail.
roads aud on the morning after the
bank examiner discovered the short.
age he shot himself
Clark was interested I'm numerous
other concerns throughout western
pennsylvania and the courts appoint
ed receivers for all OF them.
Assistant United States District At
torney Gibson opened the case for
the government yesterday. He re.
hearsed large number of figures
from the bank books, including a
check for $1,000 that Harvey is ac-
cused OF falsely handling, and the
irregular entries of various sums az.
gregatlng S225,000 He alleged that
the actions of Harvey and other In.
dicted employees were made with full
knowledge that he and they criminally
acted to deceive the directors of the
"dilapldated' institutiqp and the Uni
ted States bank examiner. He spoke
Of the Irregularities made I'm the re-
ports of the statement book, which
was prepared to govern the actions of
the banks directors.
The defense will attempt TO show
that all the clerks under indictment
were absolutely under the control Of
Lee Clark, the cashier; that he alone
was responsible for the trouble in the
bank; that the clerks OF the bank
were figureheads and that all the false
! entries and defalcations were made
i by Clark. IL viii be the defense that
; entries which are alleged to be false
In the case of Harvey were made un-
der the positive orders of Clark.
United States Bank Examiner John
B. Cunningham was the first witness
called by the, government, The witness
spent much linie IN explaining how he
made an examination OF the affairs OF
the bank.