| Show PITTSBURG GRAFT EXPOSURE Grand Jury Makes Report and Recommends Indictment of Frank N Hoffstot HEAD OF PRESSED CAR I rt JOO I OO I lo III Ki lor I tiler 1111 SIet Cusi icil nit la Ita April 1 Tho climax premised rom In n the JIt Kraft graft ix ex cam ram aa a promised ed late hate lal today toda teds with the preemInent II br by the grand Jury of or a lengthy report In which la lu I room recommended mended the Indictment of rank Prank N X president Ident of the I re aed Steel tar far t ar company and anel one une of the tile most moat prominent men In the thOl coun counti ti y SImultaneously in open court CIne came a plea of f Emil Winter president enl of the man avIn Tru Trust t corn com company co copany pany pang that lIe he had bad no daf nae 14 make k to the cham that he Ht bribe to 10 former Councilman The following In abbreviated form Corm Corma are a some rome of oC the th mont moat find leg In the grand jury presentment nt I made public tonight JURYS 1 That Frank Prank X N president of the I rea eil Steel teil car company and CM an anre president re of the German National bank of Allegheny lund and U U Un nod lieu n with other ban fillI a former select the um sum of 1 J That the money anoney was waa a bribe brIM ue l lIn In Influencing the Votes vote of councilmen to paM an ordinance naming three Ih blank bank In which tot w we a Interested an as a official depositories of oC the city II 3 That the arrangement mient for tor the pay payment mont ment of money mme to Stewart wa was made In the M epting nit of IMS I ami the late Ite Jam w W V itt al t that thai time an a p otti del al of the Treated pre Steel tar far r company was rna an associate ole In the transaction 4 That the th tb original plan that Friend had was wall to obtain the of ot Wil William 11 liam lIan A then a attorney lure IeEe nut hut ut now the Ih district at t frit i M v tit in ii i if r f lh Ih the at raft it t t iv I U OJ i In n UN II n I k 1 i r f tl I IIII i III II i y until t hc ha hai l t l 5 f That Thai Attorney y 1 t I Hd ot In the Ih n 1 not Anft l Mil all parties of tl 11 tit II 1 l t tilt proportion r T 1 i ny tw If it I u m 11 rut I ii i t 6 That aut iu in t to Mr 1 refusal refu Meant ea FrInd l 1 n l completed an nIth Mew art t t u WI uld pay py or CUSe to be paid U to Stewart the sum am named 7 1 That the transaction was wan arranged arran d to lx tM made mafte In New York city and took place there thre In June Jun I In order If possible I to avoid avold criminal liability In Allegheny county S 3 That Tbt t also alao solicited from fromon one 0 on James Jam N X Toan of the Ih Second National bank of to be paid to stewart wart to In incur the hf selection of the Second Nil I lonn I Ione aa I one of the favored city lIty n t 6 That Mutt Stewart ewart fiSt did II from tr the now deceased who was wan 11 HI ai ad adIn t tIna Ina ing In ai a agent nt for tor the Ih Second onel N lion II I bank a bribe for Cor Stewart vote vol In fa fR favor a ayr vor yr of ot the bank ordinance 10 III That In I accordance with Alth the th find findInge findings l lIn Inge ings In It be recommended that Ihal Indict l men mint meat In changing cha conspiracy and nd bribery be toe returned The bank banka turned as ultimate prin princIpals cipala to profit by the bribes alleged to I Ibave have bave been paid pId by b to Stewart are The Farmers Deposit National bunk bank the Second National Nathinal bank hank both of ot f and the tho National hank bank nIt of Allegheny In addition these thear Ih three UI the Ih Columbia bank blink of ot the German Nation 1 I hank blink of Pittsburg and the W com uny of fit If Alleg Allegheny Allegheny heny were re named ai as II city In the ordinance panned July Jul t 1 1900 8 over the tho mayors mayor veto JI CAUSES TION The plea pla of nolle contends made l lEmit hy by Emit Winter of the tb A Trust Trual made today was waa mi no mil IWI noks It ks l aa a than the report from the grand grund and jury lie Ite was waa charged ch d with the payment of a 30 bribe to 10 Mol Moi il II r hI Einstein Intel a former select council councilman co nap man When Winter appeared ap In court Judge It 8 S Fraser who la I presiding In the graft easeL ca asked to 10 be excused from hearing hearl the plea J Judge Pra explained that on ic nc count of ot his hla hi loa lone and Intimate Ie friend friendship ship hip with Mr r Winter h he wished to I have nothing to do with the caw ce 1 ter wan Wall then taken before Judges Judge Jud Thor TharD ThorD D I Carnahan and J M t 4 Swearing and entered the formal plea Sentence lenience wa Va postponed Frank X N Hoffstot aa as president of ot otIbe the Ibe Im Steel far er ar company one ff It the la largest r seat Industries of oC Ita its kind n fl the country recently figured prom In the th public eye ye while a strike wee wax lid on nil at hi his hili plant In MK Rock J the Ibe long month montha l m there were t many man riota many man pernon were killed and the Ute state troop wr wre 1 railed called out nut The reference to the alleged plan t v have Attorney Blakely act aa as a take stake stakeholder holder I t all as heist brief Iti It It the full rull report port of nt the Ih grand jury a aP It I la is In the given above aboe and the district dl altorn v vt t night might would not comment for or puhl atIn upon It II The Th court ordered ordred Indictments drawn Hore lot In accordance with Hi lIt giand jury Jurys presentment namely namI namIon on t Iwo i count of bribery and on t ii to 10 defraud d the Ih city It Tho ri presentment read cud d that thai it h II bt he ordered to appear Mpr a an ac H a lt ne n ncr and In case cne he dOM doe not do K IO un rn mediately the district attorney of or Al AI 1 county proceed forthwith In I 0 extradite him The presentment concluded with in II n r that the contini 1 along the IhlIne line already pur pursued h hIN hI IN I taken to tn mean more nun men higher Iper up u Cr re yet vet to 10 be bt named nad Ju Juat Just t before I r a p In Judge Kr i r court Tax Ini 1 the general bookkeeper book r f t rIh the Ih thank Hank nn i Trust Tru t company of Allegheny had al aIr pleaded foIl nolle to a charge or of deifying the th book of the bank In tn eon con with the payment nf of t I ti The plea of Winter ao i I came opportunely for th tb district attorney said ald otherwise th there they ere to In have been n indicted In l today lOOy Anderson who 0 for M 90 years year ha h las been beena tn a It 1 private secretary to President Win Wint t tr Ir r wile wa charged harRell with lIh having cut from frum the th hank bank ledger several eral pages page nf ot which were frt account of Emil Erni Winter and Mr Mrs Winter The district 1 attorney sold acid the missing page pa ee were later found by b State Rank Dank r Shafer and nd who were wen pre r ent nt before the nil grand JUry a in last mit week t k Anderson waived a hearing on the charge chargee Winter I III Ii a man of or M eo years who wh has lias worked ork himself up from a local barber barbel shop The foundation of oC the for fortune fortune nr tune laid when the leath Indu try t IV wim Willi one of the Ih chief trade In I Atty was waa w one once on him hl personal r onal counsel un HI III Ills present prent law Jaw lawyer yet yer Is III W V D 11 who sav says on tonight he h had bad no comment to make on the eat cuce I S I |
