The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-04-07

ingmen's Savings and Trust company,
today was no less a sensation than the
report of the grand jury. He was
charged with the payment of $4,000
bride to Morris Einstein, former sell
ect councilman. When Winter appear
ed in court, Judge r. S. Fraser, who
is presiding in the graft cases, asked
to be excused from hearing the plea.
Judge Fraser explained on account
IF his long and intimate friendship
with Mr.. Winter, he wished to have
nothing to do with the case. Winter
D. Caravan and J. M. Swearlngen.
and entered the formal plea Sentence
was postponed.
Frank N. Hoffstot, as president of
the Pressed Steel Car company, one
Of the largest industries of the kind
in the country, recently figured prom
inently in the public eye while a strike
was on at his plant in McKees Rocks
During the long months suspension.
there were many riots, many persons
were killed, and the state troops were
called out.
The reference to the alleged plan
to have Attorney Blakeley act as stake
holder, is as brief in the full report
of the grand jury as it is an abstract
given above, and the district attorney
tonight would not comment for pub
LEGATION upon it,
indictments Ordered Drawn.
The court ordered indictments drawn
against Hoffstot, in accordance with
the grand jury's presentment namely,
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conspiracy to defraud the city.
The presentment reads that Hoff-
slot shall be ordered to appear as
witness and in case he does not do
so Immediately, the district attorney
of Allegheny county. proceed forth
with to extradite him.
The presentement concluded with an
order that the investigation continue
along lines already pursued, which is
taken to mean more men higher up are
Yet to be named.
Just before President Winters APP
pearance in Judge FraseI''s court, Jas.
Anderson, the general bookkeeper oil
the Workingmens Savings Bank and
Trust company of Allegheny had also
pleaded nOlle cOntendre to charge
If falsifylng the books of the bank in
connection with the payment of $780,
600 to Einstein. The plea OF Winter
and Anderson came OPPORTUNITY for
the district attorney said otherwise
they were to have been indicted to-
day.
Anderson, who for twenty years has
been a private secretary to President
Winter, was charged with having cut
~ 1,yFe
on which were special accounts" of
Emil Winter and Mrs. Winter. The
district attorney said the missing pages
were later found by State Bank Exam
liner Shafer and McBurnie, who were
present before the grand jury as wit
nesses last week. Anderson waived
a hearing on the charges
Winter is mah of 60 years. who
has worked up from a local barber
The foundation of the Hoffstot for
tune was laid when the leather in
dustry was one of the chief trades in
Pittsburg. District Attorney Blakeley
was once his personal counsel. His
present lawyer is W. D. ROBBERS. who
says tonight he had no comment to
make on the case.
Winter and Hoffstot complete al
quartet of bank presidents who
have been named in the graft scan
dals. William Ramsay, who was
the head of the German National
Bank of Pittsburg at the time that
the graft crusade started, is now in
the Western penitentiary for the part
he took in the bribing of councilmen,
and E. H. Jennings. president of the
Columbia National. has pleaded no
defense to a similar charge and made