New-York tribune., 1910-08-14
MRS. HOPKINS GIVES OUT
A CANNED INTERVIEW
Defends QuaIey and Denies That
She introduced Him to Mrs.
Bull, as Alleged.
SATISFIEDWITHI INVESTMENT
Saws She Didn't Advise Mrs.
Bull to Invest, but Did Get
Other Friends to Put
Up Large Sums.


Up Large Sums.
Standing in the courtyard Of the New
ark plant Of the Magnesia- ia-Asbestos
Company and pointing out from time TO
time the extent Of the plant, Mrs. Ellen
Dunlop Hopkins gave yesterday after
noon her version Of how Mrs. William T.
Bull came to invest $4,000 in the stock
of that company.
She had been In consultation with
Qualey and Corbett and their lawyers
for four hours and half before she gave
her interview. and she came to the plant
armed with a typewriter statement
which it was hoped would satisfy all
corners, but after this had been read
and found wanting in many particulars
she consented to answer questions.
Contrasting with the scene of activity
on Friday. not wheel was turning IN
the plant yesterday. A few workmen
stood around in shirt sleeves and over
alls, but no steam hissed from the valves
and there was no ring of hammer on
steel.
Corbett was there with Dana Pond,
Mrs. Hopkins's cousin. who came back
from England with her on Friday, and
Wilhelm Funk, the artist, to show visi
tors through the plant, and Corbett's
uncle. ex-Judge U. T. Wiley. Of Indian
apolis, was there on visit Of advice
and inspection.
Mrs. Hopkins was in consultation with
John F. Mcintyre. attorney for Qualey
and Corbett. and Qualey, Corbett and
David Weiss. Of Mr.. McIntyre's office.
in the Lackawanna station In Hoboken.
Corbett then went to the plant, while
Mrs. Hopkins went with QuaIey, Mr.. Nc
Intyre and Weiss to the office Of Frank
M. McDermit in Newark, Mr.. McDer-
NIT being the Jersey representative
of Qualey and Corbett. The statement
was prepared there and Mrs. Hopkins
came on to the plant.
The Scene at the Factory.
She rolled into the courtyard about
$50 in an automobile with Qualey, Nc
Dermit, Weiss and Miss Nelly Pond, a
cousin of Dana Pond. After a few pre-
liminary words of good cheer to those
waiting. she took her stand by one of
the buildings with Funk and Pond as
her bodyguard, while McDermit and
Weiss stood ready to advise and object
to questions. In another corner of the
yard Mrs. Corbett sat talking to her
husband and ex-Judge Wiley, while
Oualey walked up and down and in and
out Of the buildings and mopped his
brow.
After Mrs. Hopkins had been under the
fire of questions for quarter OF an hour
Qualey could stand the strain no longer
and asked one of the reporters:
How Is she standing it7"
''she is holding up her end pretty
WE'LL was the reply.
"Ah," breathed Qualey. She is won-
derful woman. A wonderful woman
Mrs. Hopkins's Statement.
Mrs. Hopkins's statement said:
Several months ago 1 received a
check from my brokers for the sale of
some stock, and finding that the Mag
nesia plant was in need of some money
with which to purchase machinery I in
dorsed this check Cbetween $4,000 and
$4,000 over to the agnesia-Asbesto
Company as loan-distinctly a loan
and for which I received their note, pay
able on demand
Il did not purchase Magnesia stock
with this money because 1 had already
invested $4,000 in the company and
knew that l should need some Of this
money before long. l have at various
other times loaned small sums of money
to the company, sometimes by check and
sometimes by cash, all of which had
been returned. I have complete docu-
mentary evidence of this entire matter
Il do not recognize the right of any
one to interfere with my personal. pri-
vate affairs, and I shall bring forward
all the evidence necessary to refute the
implications made against me while
was out Of the country.
Says She Is Satisfied.
Since returning to this country have
had a very careful investigation made
of the Magnesa-Asbestos- Company's
plant and the splendid machinery in It's
many buildings by experts. and am more
thoroughly convinced of it's worth and
the magnitude of it's future development
than ever.
1T seems to me that one would be
mentally incapacitated to put ones
money into an investment and to inter
| est ones friends in the same invest
| ment if one did not absolutely believe
| in the investment and was not thorough
| ly convinced that it was safe and Sc
| cure one.
II have returned to this country vol
UNFAIRLY. to defend my friends whom
have interested in this business. as well
as the gentlemen who have made the
plant possible.
II did not introduce Mr.. Qualey to
| Mrs. Bull.
II have never received any stock from
the Magnesia- Asbestos Company other
than the certificate for my 200. and
have never received any finances from
the company or it's directors or officers
other than the return of the loans of my
money.
Mrs. Hopkins Answers Questions.
| Mrs. Hopkins was told that the state
ment left much unsaid. and she folded
T.