The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-04-07
RECOMM ENDS INDICTMENT or
PRESIDENT or PRESSED STEEL
CAR COMPANY.
A SENSATION CREATED
lnquisitorisi Body That Has Been In
vestiDatine Graft Affairs in Pitts
burg Makes Its Report-President Of
Workingmen's Saving & Trust Com
pany Makes Plea Of No Defense.

Pittsburg, April 6-Thc climax
promised In the Pittsburg graft cx-
| posurc came. as promised late today
with the prcsentment by the grand
jury of a lengthy report. in which is
recommended the Indictment of Frank
y. Hoffstot president OF the Pressed
steel Car company. and one of tho
most prominent business men in the
country. simultaneously In open court
came plea of Emil Winter. president
OF the Workingmcn's Savings a. Trust
company. that he had no defense to
make to the charge that he gave "A
$4,000 bribe To former Councilman
Morris Eeinstein.
The following In abbreviated form
are some OF the most startling findings
In the grand jury presenimcnt made
public tonight:
THAT Frank y. Hoffstot. prcsi-
dent of the Pressed Steel Car COM
pany and president of the German
National bank OF Allegheny and prom
inently Identified with other banks.
paid 10 Charles Stewart. a former Sc
lect councilman. the sum of sJ2 500.
THAT the money was a bribe used
In influencing the votes Of councilmen
TO pass an ordinance naming three
banks In which Hoffstot was inter-
ested as official repositories Of the
citys millions
3-That the arrangement for the
payment of the money to Stewart was
made In the spring Of 1908 and the late
James w Friend, at that time an off
! ciaI of the Pressed Steel Car com
pany was an associate I'm the trims
action.
THAT the original plan that
Friend had was to obtain the services
OF William A. Bakely. then a prac-
ticing attorney here. but now the dis
trict attorney In charge OF the graft
prosecutions, as "A stakeholder of the
bribe money until the ordinance had
passed
Declines to Act.
5-That Attorney Blakely declined to
act In the capacity named and warned
all parties OF the crIminality Of the
proposition and OF the liability to
prosecution II II went further
6-That subsequent To Mr.. BlakeIy's
refusal. Messrs. Friend and Hoffstot
completed AN arrangement with Stew
art whereby Hoffstot would pay or
cause to be paid To Stewart the sum
named-s52. 500.
THAT the transaction was arranged
to be made In New York city and took
place there in June. 1908. In order. ii
possible, 10 avoid criminal liability in
Allegheny county
s-That HoffstOt also solicited from
one James ~ Young. cashier of the
Second National bank OF Plttsburg,
s2l 900 10 be paid Stewart to insure
the selection of the Second National
as one OF the favored city repositories.
9-rhat Hoffstot did demand from
the now deceased Friend, who was
acting as agent for the Second Ma
tional bank. a bribc for Stewards
vote In favor of the bank ordinances.
l0-That In accordance with the
findings II be recommended that In
dictments charging conspiracy and
bribery bc returned
The banks named az ultimate prin.
clpals to profit by the bribes alleged
to have been paid by Hoffstot To-
Stewart are:
The Farmers Deposit National
bank. the Second National bank of
Plttsburg ANA the German National
bank Of Allegheny In addition to
these three, tho Columbia Natlonnl
bank Of Pttsburg the German Na.
tional bank Of Plitsburg and the
Workingmen's Savings Il Trust cont
pany Of Allegheny were named as city
repositories in the ordinance passed
July .. 1908 over the mayors veto.
The plea OF nollc contcndre made by
Emit Winter OF the Workingmen's
Savings a. Trust company made today
MAS no less a sensation than ihe re-
port from the grand jury Iic was
charged with the payment Of $4,000
bribe 10 Morris Einsteln. u former ses
iert councilman When Winter ap-
peared In court, Judge n, S Fraser.
who Is presiding In the graft eases.
asked To be excused IRON heaflng tho
plea.
Fraser Declines.
Judge Fraser explained on account
of his long and intimate friendship
Win Mr.. Winter, he wished To have
nothing to do with the case. Winter
was then taken before judges Thomas
II. Carnahan and j. NJ. Swearingen
and entered the formal plea, Scn-
tence was postponed.
Frank n. Hoffstot, as president of
the Pressed Steel Car company. one
of the largest industries OF its kind in
the country, recently figured promi-