Evening star., 1907-11-13
NAILED LOT Terry GANG FATTENEO ON GOLD
Secret Service Men Make I'M Enterprise Bank Got Many
portant Arrests in Chicago Millions of State Funds
MAY INVOLVE RICH MEN SENSATIONAL SUIT FILED
Said Have Branches Throughout of Pennsylvania the
the Country Defendant.
200 MORE ARRESTS EXPECTED PROMOTERS ACCOMMODATED
scid Bank Had the Use of Immense
in Sums Two
the Extensive Trade Interest ~
Ex-Treasurer of Pennsylvania the
Defendant.
PROMOTERS ACCOMMODATED
Bank Had the Use of Immense
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Interest. 8,M

PITTSBURG. November l3.-Thomas
Rinaker receiver for the Enterprise Ma
tional Bank of Allegheny. today filed a
suit In assumpsit against Frank G. Har-
ris, ex-state treasurer of Pennsylvania,
claiming sooooo, with interest from Octo-
Der %, 1903.
This suit is on two drafts of $1,000
each. made Oct ober II of the same year
to the order of W. II. Andrews terri-
torial delegate to Congress from New
Mexico and indorsad by Mr. Harris One
draft was paid through the Common
wealth Trust Company of Harrisburg, and
the other through the Clearteld Trust
Company of CIearfield
These notes were concerned in the or-
ganization Of the Pennsylvania Develop
ment Company.
Made State Depository.
The summons in the case was issued re-
turnable the next return day, which Is
the first Monday in December AS Harris
lives in Clearfeld county the papers will
be served by United States deputy mar.
shall from this city. The statement filed
by Receiver Rinaker alleges that Harris
frequently made loans through the En-
terprfse National Bank. The petition re.
cites that after his election as state
treasurer in 1901 the Pennsylvania De-
velopnent Company was continually in
need of money, and from May l. 1902,
until May /. 1898 Harris deposited In the
Enterprise bank state funds to the total
OF $50 100.
The drafts upon which the suit il
brought are alleged to have been made
by Cashier T. Lee Clark OF the Enter
prise Bank In favor Of W. H. Andrews on
the Merchants National Bank of Phila
deiphia, where, it Is claimed, the Enter
priss National Bank kept a considerable
deposit.
Development Company Proflted.
The bill Of complaint further alleges
that the Pennsylvania Development Com
pany was formed in 1901 by Andrews,
Clark. Arthur Kennedy and Francis J.
Torrance, with Clark as treasurer Its
purpose was the development of coal and
timber lands in New Mexico. In May,
1902, Harris was given the office OF state
treasurer. and assumed his duties as such
Official remaining in the office until the
first Monday In May, 1904
During this time he had the power to
select the repositories for state funds,
and, acting in such capacity. he did de.
post is Is allie ged, in the Enterprise Bank
various sums, ranging from $4,000 to
81, 10000, in all aggregating the immense
total of $2o935.o0O, on which two per
cent interest was to be paid by the bank.
Bill Of Complaint.
The bill of complaint further AYERS:
In order that Clark, cashier, might
accommodate said Pennsylvania Develop
ment Company and said promoters there
of. including himself, with additional loans
of money, said promoters of said Pennsyl-
rania Development Company, or some Of
them, in some manner unknown to the
plaintiff, induced the defendant, Frank u.
Harris, to select and retain the Enter
prise National Bank of Allegheny as one
OF the repositories OF state funds, and TO
increase the amount OF state funds de-
posted therein from time to time"
The bill further says:
"On the strength Of this agreement. as
has already been charged and proven in
the United States district court during
the trials of the men convicted of com
plicity in the wrecking Of the depleted
bank. large sums were loaned by Clark for
the sustenance Of the Pennsylvania De-
veiopInent Company
1t then alleges that Clark and Andrews
entered into a conspiracy TO enable Harris
to get money out of the bank by drafting
on its funds in the Merchants Bank OF
Philadelphia. Clark agreeing to take care
Of and pay the drafts when they came
IN. and all without the knowledge of the
bank s directors
It is alleged that Harris put this money
it for this purpose and knew that ii was
fra udllienttE given him