The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-31
MUCH INTEREST IN
 NEW YORK SCANDAL Hyde Trial for Bribery
 Occurs Next Week OTHERS INVOLVED
OTHERS
INVOLVED
City Chamberlain Cummins Indicted for Misappropriati0n of Carnegie Trust Funds-Gaynor Being
 Dragged Into the Case

New York, December 3o.-( -(Special.)-Po- ltical New York Is awaiting with much interest the trial early next week of for mer City Chamberlain Charles Hiram Hdye, and the further probing of the banking scandal that has involved the heads of the Carnegie Trust company, the Joseph G. Robin enterprises, and the New York political machine. Hdye was indicted for the alleged crime of bribery in connection with the financing of these two institutions, and is the fourth man to face the jury of coterie of prominent politicians, bankers and promoters in- volved in the failures.
 The ex-city chamberlain was indicted chiefly on the testimony of Joseph G. Robin, owner of string of banks and industrial enterprises, who alleged that Hyde, himself and William J. Cummins, convicted on a charge of embedding $140,- eco from the Carnegie Trust company, and at liberty under bail o& $50, 000 met in Hyde's office in 1910, while Hyde was city chamberlain Here they conferred with Joseph B. Reichman, former presi- dent of the Carnegie Trust company, con- victed in June last of making a false re- port to the state banking examiners, and, according to Robin, Hyde told him that if he would come through with a loan to the then tottering Carnegie Trust com pany, he (Hyde) would see that the mu- nicipal deposits were increased in Robins Northern bank. IF Robin had refused, according to his story, he was threatened with having the city money then in his bank withdrawn. The bank was in no condition to stand such withdrawals, and he had to accede to Hydes demands, Robin ayers.
 The official records show that the mu- nicipal funds in Robins Northern bank were increased until the aggregate some months after the date of the alleged con- ference amounted to approximately s1,00O,- 000
 Recent developments have given a new turn to the affairs of the indicted city chamberlain. Cummins, found guilty of a misappropriation of the Carnegie Trust company funds, was given his liberty on a certificate of reasonable doubt, and 1t is rumored that he has made overtures to the district attorney to turn states evi- dence, hoping in this way to escape new trial and a possible sentence of six years and six months in the federal pris- on. Color is lent to this rumor by the bad physical condition of Cummins, who suffered considerable during his incar- ceration in the Tombs while awaiting the outcome of his application to higher court for a retrial.
 Robin, too, has been adjudged sane, and the order committing him to sanitar,- um has been invalidated, which, together with the fact that his sentence has been held up till after the trial of the indicted city chamberlain, is considered signifi- cant
 nydes affiliation with Mayor Gaynor, whose administration of city's affairs is very unpopular in many quarters, has brought forth charges of a political plot that have aggravated the excitement at tendant upon his trial. The former city chamberlain is a law partner of the may or's. and at the time of the Robin bank failures and the crash of the Carnegie Trust company, mysteriously disappeared, remaining away until the hue and cry over the distributions of the cty's funds in the defunct institutions was spread from New York city to almost every city in the east. He then returned to the city, alleging illness as the cause of his ab- sence, and was promptly indicted on charge of swinging the city's millions to benefit his own ends, which constitutes the act of bribery in the eyes of the law.