New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-07
H1FfST0T INDICTED
IN PITSBURG GRAFT
Alleued Plan of ]. M. Friend to
Use BIakeIey as Brlbe
Stakeholder"
SAY $4,000 WAS PAID HERE
Friendly Judge withdraws When
Emil Winter, Aged Bank
President, Once Barber,
Confesses.

iera ID the FfttSbuFS gram fNp'So''9
cam. late TODAY. with the prosentment
f,. t,. GRAND Jury Of long report. In
,.--f..l, IL recommended the indictment Of
r---rl y Hoffstot. president OF the
rr.assod S;ecl car Company. and one Of
.i.c most prominent business men in the
..,frfrv The indictments were later or
dcred
simultaneously in open court came the
,,rea NJ Emil Winter. president Of the
NarLncmen's Saving and Trust Com
-.ry that he had no defence TO make to
tt.e charge that he gave 100000 bribe
-a ex-Councilnan Morris Einstein. James
Anderson. the general booklleepcr OF the
bank. had previously confessed to falsi-
f.ir- the books bv cutting out pages
of fhs ledger containing graft accounts.
--ar following in abbreviated form are
Some 81 the most startling findings i'm the
grand iury's presentment made public
tonight.
The Presentnaent.
rr-et-Thst Frank \. Hoffstot. prcsi-
don't ar the Pressed steel car Company.
and president OF the German National
Bank or Allegheny. and prominently
Identified with other banks. paid TO
charles stewart a former select coun-
Gilman. the sum Of $52.5oo
~s5a-d-That the money was a bribe
used iu influencing the votes of council
tro~ 10 pass an ordinance naming three
,tts En- which Hofstot was interested
.. ..rTrial Repositories of the ciry's mill
.-r-
Third That the arrangement FOR the
r-t-7ent of the money 20 Stewart was
made iu the spring Of 1905. and that the
la-r James Y. Friend. Al shat time an
Official Of the Pressed Steel Car Com
rs-. was an associate i'm tho transac-
r.on
Faurth-Thst the original plan which
rrfa-d had was 10 obtain the services Of
william A. Blal<eley. who was then a
practising attorney here. but who is now
tHs District Attorney in charge of the
Graft prosecutions. as "a stakeholder Of
rre I,rfbe money until the ordinance had
D. -ead
Fifih-That Rlakeley declined 70 act En-
-ro capacity named and warned al par
tes of the crirninality Of the proposition
and of The liability 10 prosecution If il
vart further
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.e.'s refusal Nossrs. Friend and HoT-
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Say Bribe Was Paid Here.
crerfh-Thar the transact ion was ar
a.I'- i' % mace lh Ne" YORK 'ltF.
ana TOOK place there IN June. l'"'e. IN
'.-'r II possible. 'o aNo'o criminal lla-
.... In A.t'NAeh> '"unfN.
En'n-i hat HoHsl"t dld also solicit
''." one James y. Young, cashier ~
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Juo9e' . Frieno' Excused.
Tho rIea of roIo cortor6ere made lv
president Emil Winter of the Working
.-aH's Savings and Trust Company to-
aaE Eas no less a sensation shan the re
...t .f the grand fury. He was charged
r.ta the pay inout OF $20"J3 bribe To
.us I-irslein. a former select coun-
... When Winter appeared IN court
5.l-. g. +. Frascr, who is presiding En-
'. "rslt Clscs. asked 'p Lc excused
t.'a aearing the rlea.