Arizona republican., 1910-04-07
h Pittsburg Graft And Brl
 bery Cases BANKERS TURNS COME
One Appears in Court to Plead No Defense - A Grand Jury Presentment Recommends Indictment of Another Financier.

lAASOulS- Aptli D. ut Cul1dA x promised in the Pittsburg graft expos ure came as promised late today with the presentmcnt Of lengthy grand jury report recommending the indict- ment of Frank Hoffstott, president Of the Pressed steel Car company. and one of the most prominent business men in the country.
 Simultaneously in open court came q plea of Emil Winter, president of the Workingnen's Savings & Trust company that he had no defense to make to the charge that he gave a s3O.oO0 bribe to former Councilman Morris Einstein
 Tine following are briefly some of the most startling findings in the grand jury presentment:
 That Frank Hoffstot president of the Pressed Steel Car company and president of the German National bank of Allegheny and prominently identi fled with other banks. paid to Charles Stewart. former select councilman. s52.O0o
 That the money was a bribe used in influencing the votes of cOuncilmen to pass an ordinance naming three banks in which Hoffstot was interested. as official depositOrs of the city's mill lions.
 That the arrangement for the pay ment of the money was made in the spring of 1908, and the late James Friend. at that time an official of the Pressed Steel Car company, was an associated in the transaction
 That the original plan that Friend had was to obtain the services of Will liam Blakeley. then practicing at torney. but now the district attorney in charge of the graft prosecution. as stakeholder of the bribe money until the ordinance had passed.
 That Blakeley declined to act in the capacity named. and warned all par ties of the criminality of the proposi- ton. and of the liability to prosecu- ton if it went further
 That subsequent to Blakeley's re- fusal. Friend and Hoffstot completed an arrangement with Stewart where by Hoffstot would pay. or cause to be paid. to Stewart s52.500.
 That the transaction was arranged to be made in New York and took place there in June, 1908. in order. if possible. to cvade criminal liability in Allegheny county.
 That Hoffstot also solicited and se- cured from James Young. cashier of the Second National bank of Pittsburg, s21.OO0 to be paid to Stewart to insure the selection of the second National bank as one of the favored Repositories.
 That Stewart did demand from the now deceased Friend. who was acting
 F.r- %1,O bank. a bribe for Stewart's vote in favor of the bank ordinances.
 Tho banks named as ultimate prin- cipals to profit by the bribes alleged to have been paid by Hoffstot to Stew art are: The Farmers Deposit Ma tionaI. the Second National. and the Germany National bank of Allegheny. In addition to these. the Columbia Ma tional bank of Pittsburg. the German National bank and the Worldngmens Savings & Trust company of Allegheny were named as city Repositories in the ordinance passed over the mayors veto.
 The plea of nolle contendre. made by Winter of the Worgingmeu's Savings X Trust company was no less sensa- ton than the report of the grand jury. He was charged with the payment Of a s200O0 'bribe to Einstein. former se- feet councilman When Winter ap- peared in court, Judge Fraser. who IS presiding in the graft cases. asked to be excused from hearing the plea. Judge Frazer explained that on ac- count of his long and intimate friend ship with MT. Winter, he wished to have nothing to do with the case. Win ter was then taken before Judges Car nivan and Swearingen and entered the formal plea Sentence was postponed
 Hoffstot, as president of the Pressed Steel Car company, one of the largest industries in the country. recently fig ured prominently in the public eye while 2 strike was on at his plant in McKee's Rocks. During the long suspension there were many riots, many persons were killed and the state troops were called out.
 The reference to the alleged plan to have Blakeley act as stakeholder is as brief in the report of the grand jury as it is in the abstract given above, and the district attorney tonight would not comment for publication upon it.
 The court ordered indictments drawn against Hoffstot in accordance with the grand jury's presentment. namely. on two counts of bribery. and
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