Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-02
City Chamberlain Asks
Public to Suspend
Judgment.
BORROWED MONEY OF
CARNEGIE TRUST co.
Checks Traced to Him Through
Various New York
Banks.

AL W iOiNANt tlety NSiittA 100 AhiieAAA
Hyde, the city chamberlain, appeared
in court this afternoon and pleaded not
guilty to an indictment charging bri-
berry. The offense charged is punish
able by Imprisonment for not more
than ten years, or fine of not more
than $4,000, or both.
Bail was set for $500 and given.
Samuel Untermyer, the chamberlain S
counsel, asked for an early trial, which
District Attorney Whitman promised.
Before his appointment Chamberlain
Hyde was the law partner of Mayor
Gaynor, and has long been his personal
friend and political adviser.
Chamberlain Hyde, through his
secretary, today issued the following
statement:
For more than two months the cam
paign has been carried on against me
by the district attorney and other offi
cials, with the active and hearty sup
port of tive. newspapers with large cir
culations in this city. On April 10 l
asked the public to suspend judgment
until the close of the case. stating that
nothing had been done by me as city
chamberlain of which | or my city
need be ashamed. No official act of
mine has been influenced by any i'm
proper motive. 1t has taken two months
to indict me before a body that does
not hear any defense or even explana-
ton ] have no doubt of the outcome
ard my complete exoneration, and |
shall endeavor to await it with patience
and equanimity."
Robin Told story.
Mr. Hyde's indictment is said to have
followed story told the grand jury by
Joseph G.. Robin, who Is said to have
related that ne made loans through tbs
Northern Bank to the Carnegie Trust
company under what he described as
coercion. J. ". Smith, Hyde's secre-
tary, is alleged to have received a chs eli
for about $4,000 from the Carnegie
Company, which Smith is said to have
told the grand jury he turned over to
Hyde.
The evidence on which the indict-
ment is founded was collected piece
meal, and only after many witnesses,
some defiant and some with defective
memories. had been examined. The
, oincidences. as Chamberlain Hyde once
desc ibed EN-. that indicated connec-
ton between deposits of city cash and
almost Simultaneous loans to William
J. Cummins and his friends, were con-
sidered signii ant from the start. In
at least nineteen instances it was
shown that Cummins had borrowed
money N institutions that only. a
short time before had received big de-
posits of city money.
sFriends at Court"
Bank Examiner Hutchins told how
Cumnlins claimed to have friends at
court and Joseph r. Reichmann de-
clared he considel ed Cummins's best
asset his friendship with Hyde.
On top of this came the reported adj
missions of Cummins himself to the
effect that he had frequently interceded
with Hyde to secure city deposits for
certain banks and his admission of the
fact that these banks had each ft them
loaned = or his enterprise money.
Apart from these striking series of
condolences was the statement of Jo-
seph G. Robin that he had been forced
by Chamberlain Hyde, at the latter's
nrivate office, on the night of August
93 to go to the aid of the Carnegie
trust. Robin says that he was taken
to Hydes office by Cummins and Reich
mann for the express purpose of hav-
ing the chamberlain put the necessary
pressure upon MN " siN0 'iio ue'i' Gu
aid.
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and negotla'eu tne loa1
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