Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1909-09-28

That said newspapers at all times
as aforesaid, published pictures and
cartoons representing aiiiant as eX-
! tremely greedy and avariciOus, and Il
worshipper OF money above every
/ virtue, and such pictures and cartoons
so ublished by said newspapers de-
picted scenes Of distress wherein de-
positors were represented as persohs
sick, bed-ridden, hollow checked.
sunken-eyed. ana with tattered gar
ments, al, suggested in said pictures
to have been caused directly by the
conduct of atiiant as director and
president of said bank.
And in others Of said pictures and
cartoons so published from time TO
time in said newspapers, atiiant was
represented as living in luxury pur-
chased with ne money he had tilched
from said bank while women and
starving children, old. aged persons.
decrepit and sick persons, were sub
jccted to distress and misery because
On the loss of deposits in said bank
all OF which was charged to aave Seen
directly caused by the conduct OF al
fiant as president and as a director
of said banG.
The atiiant goes on to say Il lot
more about the newspapers and the
power they have welded in bringing
Tom Hickey to justice and the man
ner in which they have shed light in
the dark places of tae State Bank Il
Trust co. affairs and then takes a
rap at Sam Platt in the following
language:
That soon aftctr the suspension of
said Bank. as aforesaid. certain in
fuential citizens, one of them being
the United States Attorney for the
District of Nevada. another being the
editor and publisher of certain
newspaper of the State of Nevada
represented themselves as being fam
iliar with all the facts connected
with the management of and control
OF said bank.
THE influential citizens shortly af
ter the suspension of said bank "a
aforesaid, went through the counties
wherein said branch banks We're sit
uated and said other counties and
caused people to assembly taat they
might address them and said inhuen-
tial citizens did address such assem-
blages in said counties, making in
said addresses the same charges
against this afiiant as We're then and
had heretofore been made in said
newspapers, and charged that the
bank was entirely the result Of the
management and control of the said
ahiant and in this connection they
stated that said afiiant had practical
ly usurped all the powers of the board
of directors and had directed and con
! trolled the said bank according to the
atlantis individual judgment and for
! his own individual benefit and profit.
! He pays his respects to Frank
| Wiides, receiver of the bank. saying
That after his appointment as receiv-
er of said bank the said Wildes stated
and charged this affiant with the
same neglect. ommission and com
mission which had been published in
said newspapers and AS had been
stated as aforesaid by said influential
persons"
Then hear the result of all this
campaign of publicity as recited by
tae affiant:
| THAT by reason of said publica-
tions in said newspapers, and OF said
statements of said influential persons,
and by said depositors. and by rea-
son of the loss to said depOsitOrs, the
mines of practically all the adult peo-
pie of the said counties, including the
county of Ormsby, were greatly in
famed and all of said people became
angered and hated the said affiant
, and such state of mind still continues
/ anu Sdiu duUll ptopie VI Sdlu countries
are desirous and eager to do anything
within their power to compel this af-
tiant to pay the said sum owing by
said bank to said depOsitOrs.
| He goes on to say that an election
was held in Nevada and that tae
candidates pledged the people that IL
elected they would do {" possible to
bring the affiant to justice and that
curing the election violent attacks
were made upon the honesty and in
tegrity of Honest Tom Hickey.
strange as that may seem. accusing
him of profiting by his operataions ir
the ! ank and accusing him. last straw