The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-07
IEDICTS HOPPSfOT As BRIBER
GRAFT GRAND juicy SCORES
SrEKL CAR 90. PRESIDENT.

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Damk q CSay Depositsry- DlstrSet 40.
I0rnsy q witness mefOre Grand Jury.
PErvsuUno. April e.-The GRAND Jury
to-day indicted Frank N. HoGstOa. Presi-
dent 90 the German National Bank %
Allegheny and president % the Prsssod
Steel Car Company. on charges Of bribery
and conspiracy.
Prcsadsns Emil Winter Of the Working
mans Savings Bank and Trust Company
% Allegheny. another Of the financial
pillars % Pittsburg. came 20 court late
this evening TO coufese that he had bEibed
councilmsn 60 che extent Of s5o.Ooo.
James NJ. Andersen. general bookkeeper
of The workingman's savings Bank and
Trust Company. was arraigned on a
charge Of having mutilated the books Of
hls bank to save exposure Of certain
psrsons He pleaded nolo contendere and
was released under hail.
The indictment Of HO6stOt was not UNI
expected by those who have followed the
graft casss. but the vtgor q the present.
msnt made to the court by the Grand Jury
asaOundsd every one. For some years
HoGstot has had his residence in New
York The Grand Jury takes cOgniSance
of this and calls on the District Attorney
20 proceed forthwith 70 SxtTadite him
In care he doss not obey the summons 20
appear bsfOre the Grand Jury.
The most startling feature Of the graft
inquiry 90 date 10 the information con-
veyed in the pressntmsnt handed down
against HO6stot this afternoon. u APP
pears that District Attorney William A.
Blaklsy appeared as q citixeu before this
Grand Jury in connection with the Hodstot
case and told how before he became
preached a. an attorney by HoTstos.
by the late j. W. Friend and by Council
man Charles Stewart and asked to act an
holder Of Q fund Of ga 600 which they were
70 pay certain Councilmcn for the passage
u bank ordinance.
BlAkIsy was asked TO hold the money
a. n guard against cheating on the part
Of the Councilman and part OF his duties
would be 10 pay IL ont 90 the crooked
city fathers a. they fulfilled their promises
Attorney BlAklsy il said 20 have re-
fused to consider the proposition and TO
have warned Hoaseot. Frisnd and Stewart
that their course IL pursued would get
than into trouble and that II he ever at
tanned a position Of authority In the courts
Of Allegheny county that he would 90
AftsG them.
This 10 thought 10 have frightened
them 30 that HoGstot and Friend began
to negotiate with stewart to have all
payments Of graft made in New York
city with money shipped from PIttsburg.
This 10 was thought would do away with
all possibility Of prosecutions in case
the matter should get into the hands Of
the proper authorities.
The coufersnce which District Attorney
Blakley had in New York last Monday
with District Attorney Whitman and the
Indictment Of to-day convey the idea
that the authorities think they can vet
get Ho6aaot, though the money. about
ga OoO in the aggregate. was shipped from
Pittsburg to q New York hotel and there
paid out
The Grand Jury does not say that
HOGstOt paid the money out there per
sOnally. but says that parsons who paid
thu money at the Hotel Imperial 90
Councilman stewart and others are not
yet known 90 IT,
AL this money was bribery for the
passage " tho bAnk ordinances. IL il |
alleged
II h alleged that HOnstOt On two occa- |
sions solicited money from Cashier James |
NJ Young % the Second National Rank |
Of Pittsb,Irg one u the institutions lately |
named - a city depository. and caused |
him To ship 60 New Yor s1I .OOO ~ that |
hanks share Of the bribe money
Cashier YO'InE was b~fOrs the Jury a i
OnG time to-day.
The srraispment Of PresiJsnt End
Winter " the WOrtin kI,sn : Savings bank
and Truss Company before the court pro-
voked q pathetic incident. Judge Robert
T. FRASER and Winter have bsen friends
since b0yhood. and ~ the banker. white
lippsd and fearful. bowed his head in
shame a. he confessed the bribery Judge
Frassr's voice broke. and motioRinx for
Judge Elliott Rogers 90 come closer he
Explained that he and the man about 10
plead WEIR friends-of too long standing
90 srmit Of his hearing tho confession
WtNBDtN H11us 10 WOSltSl I9turN Fue9Aalf-DN |
Winter made his statement Ia some other
court
winter was then taken before Judges
Carnahan and swearingen. where he con-
Te&ssd that he had given Councilman
Norris Einstein go. O00 IN order that his
hank might be made q city depository.
He was part under - zoo hail.
The hearing Of BoOkkesper Anderson
n winters hank proved sensational. He
was accused Of having removed leaves
from tho hooks Of tho hank when ex-
posurs thrsatsosd snd of having rrturned
leaves to the books when ordered by the
hank examiner. The pages which he
had cut from the books containsd the
records 0G President Emil Winter. the
sccl -: - Mrs. Emit Winter and the
special account. Of President Winter
u n understood thaa the Grand Jury 10
not 20 satis6ed WHISTLER the leaves axsd
In the mutilatSd books were the same
hat had been taken out or not.
Tbs indictment o: HOHetot Of the Ger
man National Rank and the ArraiRnment
and pbeaAing Of President Winter Of tho
wOrkAngman's Savings Bank and Trust
Company mal1B four Of the sin hank
$1,000 49, t..affe,,egs...s 49,. -,