The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-03-21

Shumaker, Former Superintendent Of
Buildings and Grounds.
i Harrisburg, Pa, March 1.-THE
jury in the first of the capitol conspir.
acy cases to be tried gave verdict
of guilty as to every one of the four
men who have been on trial here for
the last seven weeks after six hours
elaboration. There were two ballots
taken, but the jury did not come into
court until two hours after reaching a
conclusion.
Sanderson, contractor; William P.
Snyder, former auditor general; w. L.
Mathues, former state treasurer, and
James M. Shumaker, former superin-
tendent of public buildings and
grounds.
Motions for new trial were made in
each case.
Only Sanderson and Snyder were in
court when the verdict was given, and
neither would talk. None of the coun-
sci for the defendants would say any
thing about the case.
The maximum penalty for each de-
PENDANT is two years Imprisonment
and $1,000 fine.
For Defrauding State.
The four men were convicted of de-
frauding the state in furnishing the
new capitol building, which cost the
state about $13,O00,OO0 instead of
$4,OO 900, the figure at which the con-
tract was estimated.
| When the cases now pending against
the four persons who were convicted
are concluded the other defendants
will be heard. The state claims that
there are frauds amounting to nearly
81, 600, 900 in the furnishings of the
capitol.
The arguments we're concluded
Thursday and yesterday Judge Kun
KEEL gave final instructions to the jury,
who have patiently listened to testi-
mony and speeches since January ~.
The case constituted one of the
longest jury trials in the history of
Pennsylvania courts and it attracted
much attention throughout the coun-
try. The prosecution of the capitol
frauds was the direct outcome of the
great political upheaval in Philadel-
phia in 1905, which resulted in the
fall of that year in the election of w.
H. Berry, a democrat, to the office of
state treasurer.
StartIes People.
After Berry took office he startled
the people of the state by charging
that the books of the state treasury
showed that the capitol, instead Of
costing $4,000,00O, had actually cost
$13,000,000.
An investigation followed and the
findings of the investigators were to
the effect that great frauds were com.
mitted in the furnishing and decorat-
ing of the building. The case was laid
before the attorney general, who be-
gan proceedings which resulted in the
indictment Of fourteen persons. After
the case of the four defendants now
before the court has been disposed of,
the prosecution of the others will be
taken up.
Architect Joseph H. Huston, himself
under indictment in connection with
the capitol frauds, practically turned
states evidence. His testimony was
most damaging to all of the men con-
nected. Huston's story brought for
mer Governor Pennypacker to the
witness stand to deny certain allega-
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