Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-07
Presentmsnt Forms Climax in SensR-
tionsl Civic Scandal.
BRIBERY BAIT WAS LARGE ONE
Findings Show that Money Was PAID
TO Charles Stewart.
ANOTHER BANKER MAKES PLEA
Emil winter of WorLinrnuu's TruSr
Company Has NO Defense to
OrIer 10 Charge OF
Brfbcrs.

PITTSEJTG April G-Tac rJImea p.um-
srd iu The PIttshurr Ersft exposures caue.
as promised. late tudUy with The pre-eu.-
meut hy the IrauG jury Of O. lnrthy rspur,
iu which De- recommended the iudiCfmart
of Frank N Hoff-tut. president ~ the
Pressed steel Car coupga>. aud one of
The most prominent business men in -
country
simultaneously Iu open court caUF o.
plea Of Emil Winter. president ~ ihe
Workiugmaus Savings and Trust company,
thai ho had no defense 10 make 80 tne
charge that ne gave q sa1 0Jg hriue 10
former Councilman Morris linsteiu.
The following in abbreviated form are
so1ne OF the most startling Findings in the
grand Jury.s preseutment mude public to-
night:
THAI Frank n Hoftstot president OF
the Pressed Steel Car company ana pres.-
deut OF the German National hank. of
Allegheny and prominently Identified with
other banks. paid TO Charles stewart a
former select councilman. The sum OF
sa25Oo
Money Declared Brihe.
e. Thai the money was a bribe used n
influencing the votes Of couuciueu TO pass
an ordinance naming three banks iu which
I4offstot was interested as official dcpus-
tories Of the city's millions
3 That The BrrauEemert for the payment
Of The money TO Stewul1 was MADE in the
spring Of 1908 and that the late James Va.
Friend. al thai time an official Of the
Pressed steel Car cunpauy was an assocl-
ate IN the transaction
That lhe original plan which Friend
had 10 obtain the services OF William
] a Blakeley, who WIS then q practicing
attorney here. hut who is nov the dislriu,
attorney IN charge Of the graft prusecu-
tions. az stakeholder Of the bribe money
until the ordinance mad passed.
! That Attorney BlBkelea declaed TO act
, 10 the capacity harmed RnG warnod ell
+ uufties ~ She criIuiraiits & rte proposition
I and of lhe LIABILITY to prosecution 81 Il went
further
b g. That subsequrut TO Nj Blakeley's re-
q fusEl Messrs. Friend and Buffsiot com
% pleted an arrangement with StCwHr.
whereby Hoffstot would pay or cause 10
% be paid TO Stewart the some uHlned-Su@.a 500
g. Thai the transaction was arranged tD
he MADE in New York City and took place
. there IN June 1905 in order il possible to-
o. avoid criminal liability ia Allegheny county.
Another Bnnk Involved.
b g. That H0ffslgt drd also solicit and secure
4 from one james n. Youul. cashier of ths
( Second National bank oT PiusburE, the sum
e. OF 81 900 TO be- paid stewart 10 insure the
selection Of the Second National Hs one Of
The favored CITY Repositories
: 9. That Stewart did demand from the now
deceased Friend. who was HcriaE a. assent
=, for the Second National bank hribe for
stewards vote in favor OF the bank ordI-
nance
., TO- That. In accordance with the findings
~ IL be recommended that indictments charg
% ing conspiracy and bribery be- returned
The banks named ultimate principal,
u 10 profit by the bribps alleged 10 have beer
e paid 10y Hoffstot 10 stewart are the Farm
ers Deposit NationpI bank. the second M
e uoual bank and the German NaiBnnl bHni
1l of Allegheny. I'm addition 10 these tArs,
e the Columbia National bank OF Pitlsuurg
j. the German National bank of PittsburE aul
% The WurkinEuaus Savings and Trust com
psuy Of Allegheny were named as ciIs
.s depositories In the ordinance passed Ju,g .
-e 1900 over the mayors veto.
70 Winter Creates Sensation.
The plea 81 uulo uJuIeuderr made b,
lt President End Winter Of the yNUrl,.ugInsu
Do Savings and Trust company today was Do,
10 Jess O sensation than the report OF ma
IL grand jury. He was charged with aha pay
ment Of s2O.O8l Dribe to Morris Ansttiu ,
~. former select COUNCILMAN, When WIulC
H. appeared IN court, 9udse X s IrRHpr VIII
\, Is presiding in the graft cases asked 40 b
IA excused from hearing lhe case.
Judge Frazer explained that Oh uCCouu
uf his long and intimate friendship wit
Nj Winter be wanted 10 have nothing o.
do with the case Winter vas then ta.el
before Judges Thomas II Caravan and .
M. SwesriuEen and entered the farmBl pes
Sentence was postponed
Frank n H1ffso. as president % tu
Pressed steel Car company. one Of ia
largest industries of be KIND Boo the rJuu
try. recently figured prominently n ta
pt bile eye while a strike vas On at hl
plant in MCkees Rocks During the lyHl
month suspension there were many rio,
and many persons killed and the stat
troopers called out
re The reference TO the alleged plan TO haE
81 had Attorney BlHhele1 Brt NJ q stHkehoIde
- is brief IN the fan report o. the grand CUR.
~ a. if in the ahstact given above, au
81 the district attorney tonight would no, com
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