Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-27
GIVES UP THE KEY
Pittsburg Councilman Believed
to Have SqueaIed.
TELLS STORY OF BIG GRAFT
Indictments Against Implicated
Bankers Regarded as Certain.
SOME ACCUSED MEN RET1CENr
Indications That They Mean to
Make Contest With the Prose
cutting ohacers.
TELLS STORY OF BIG GRAFT
SOME ACCUSED MEN RETrcrNT

PITTSBCRG. Pa. March 2s.-Another
or the councilmen, one who has been
charged with being one OF the ring
leaders. Is believed to have weakened
today and to have told his story OF the
graft conspiracy to the district attorney
This step and the unusual activity o.
county detectives serving to indicate to
councilmen that any sudden departure
from town would be hazardous, were
the only developments OF the day in the
graft cases.
Charles Stewart. with his attorney
former Gov. w. A. Stone. called on Dis
trict Attorney Blakeley today and shortly
afterward Assistant District Attorney
Seymour, followed by corps OF stenog-
raphers. focked to BlakeIey's Office Three
hours later. when they emerged, Blakeley
and Seymour were smiling, but would
give out no definite statement.
Stewart Holds Key.
The district attorney. however, has re-
peatedly announced that Stewart held the
key to some of the big ones implicated
in the graft conspiracy. Blakeley knows
the whole story Of the bank deals, and
II Stewart has made a clean breast OF It,
indictments against certain bankers are
assured.
Stewart called on Blakeley several days
ago and was closeted with him but few
minutes. What he said then was unsatis-
factory, and the district attorney told him
that when he was ready to tell the truth
to come back. The grand jury yesterday
tn tie anti
man who was paid $4,000 in the Hotel
Imperial, New York. The name Of the
man who paid 1t Is known and Stewards
evidence would be in the line of corrobo-
ration.
Judge Robert s. Frazer. expecting that'
few of the accused would be scared
into rushing for cover" at this late hour.
sat In court to receive the pleas OF any
who cared to come forward.
Indications Of Finish Fight.
The failure Of any OF the accused men
to come to the front indicates that it is
to be a finish fight between the accused
men who have not confessed and the dis
trict attorney.
Although there was no statement by the
court or the district attorney. ii is the
belief about the courthouse that the
postponement of sentence in the case OF
Harry E. Muehlbronner and Charles We
yerka. confessed embeZZlers or funas
from the Workingman's Bank, was Tor
the purpose of having them appear before
the grand Jury Monday to tell what they
know regarding the part their bank play
ed in the furnishing Of funds for the pass
age Of the bank depository ordinance
Banks Excite the Curious.
Interest today centered about the meet
ings of the dlrectorates of banks named
by the grand jury yesterday. The sub
ject of a reply to the district attorneys
demands was not taken up at the Column
bia National Bank or the German Ma
tional of Pittsburg, while the Farmers
National Deposit Bank announced that
would readily comply. The Second Ma
tional directorate prepared statement
signed and certified. as ordered, ana LOT
warded it to Harrison Nesbit. foreman
Of the grand jury. The German Natoha,
Bank of Allegheny had no statement "
make, while the Workingman's Savings
and Trust Company held no meeting.