The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-11-02
EIGHTY YEAR TERM
Montgomery Could Get This Under the
Present Convictions

Pittsburg, Nov. 2.-"Guilty on nine
teen of the twenty-one counts of the
Indictment"
That was the verdict returned to-
day by the jury in the second case
against Cashier William Montgomery
of the Allegheny National bank in
United States court
Stripped of its technicalities the
verdict means that the jury found the
cashier guilty of abstracting and mis-
appropriattng s125.0OO Of bonds, assets
of the bank. The indictment named
the total as $144.0O0. Two counts, al
leging the misappropriation of $4,000
additional Pittsburg Brewing bonds,
were nolle pressed by motion Of Unit
ed States Attorney Dunkle before the
jury retired, no attempt having been
made to prove the charge during the
trial.
With one more indictment still pend
ing against him in United States
courts. and two, for forgery, in the
state courts, the two verdicts of guilty
already rendered against Montgomery
of eighty years.
Try Another Case Next Week.
The first verdict included one Of
fense against the banking laws; the
second, convicted Montgomery of
seven more. On each of these eight
separate offenses the cashier is liable
to imprisonment for from five to ten
years.
Prosecutor Dunkle expects to go to
trial Nth the third indictment against
Montgomery sometime next week.
This indictment is jointly against
| Mnntonr,oor1y ~
Will likely be tried jointly. 1t con-
tains seventeen counts-all alleging
false entries in the books of the Allie
gheny National, involving a total en-
bezzlement of 100000, Including the
$469,000 cash embezzlement found by
the bank examiner last May.
The cash embezzlement was the
basis for the first verdict against the
prisoner last Monday, but the indict-
ment yet to be tried is for the falsifi-
cation on the books that made the
theft possible. In this coming trial the
amounts of the fictitious notes, said
to total over 100000, which Mont
gomery foisted on his own bank, will
become publfc-notes similar to those
which he was shown in the last trial
to have f1oated in Kittanning and
Beaver Falls.
Sentences All at Once.
Sentence will not be imposed until
this third trial is over. and then, after
Judge Young has fixed the penalty,
the prisoner will be turned over to the
county authorities for trial-or, IL they
are not ready, will enter at once on
his imprisonment.
Evidently there has been no thought
from the start on the part of Mont
gomery's attorneys of a possible ap-
peal of the case. for no exceptions
were taken to any of Judge YoungO
decisions during either Of the two
trials. Montgomery, in fact, seemed
to have totally lost his old care-free
attitude; he was dispirited
Miss Estelle Martin, the stenograph-
er who transcribed the confession
made by Montgomery in United States
Marshal Stones Office May 12, testi-
fled briefly. Contrary to expectations
her testimony did not introduce any
new names into the case President
| William Stewart, former Congressman
]. w. Brown, William H. Latshaw,
Thomas Evans and Walter Chess, all
directors of the Allegheny National,
testified that Montgomery had not
been authorized to hypothecate any
of the securities of the bank