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RICKEY CONFESSES JUDGMENT RICKEY CARRIES BANK COD AT BAR OF PUBLIC OPINION of assets of the of of B. he that all, Thomas withdrawal declares valuable being "wealthy." Rickey (COPY) bank is in danger of assasination in OrmsAfter saying that the candidates Carson City, Nevada, Oct. 1, 1909 IS GRANTED all tickets vied with each other by county and that for this, and half "That said newspapers at all times Mr. a hu "ed other reasons he don't holding him up to contumely and as aforesaid, published pictures and Asst. Cashier, that he was characterized as a "thief want to be tried in this county for cartoons representing atliant as exSTAY OF Dear Sir: wrecking the State Bank and Trust liar, scoundrel, and attributing to tremely greedy and avaricious, and a Company. all kinds of dishonesty and trickery, worshipper of money above every We are sending you per registered mail one capy of a priv EXECUTION that the peopie actually applauded virtue, and such pictures and cartoons He also says that the United States code for use between the Banks of this Company. A copy will such statements and approved the ex SO ublished by said newspapers deDistrict Attorney took the stump and SO be sent to the Hanover Nat. N. Y. but should not be used W pressions and the persons who made denounced him, that influential citipicted scenes of distress wherein dethat bank until advised of its receipt. It may be used in wires Petty, the wife murderer, was the expressions by actually electna positors were representetd as persons zens have done the same, that the Mr. Rickey who will carry it. Attention is called to the iast granted a stay of execution this af them to office. that the grand juries sick, bed-ridden, hollow-cheeked, newspapers in particular, have been pages, being signatures to messages involving payments. Ple ternoon by the Supreme Court and met in several counties and proceed sunken-eyed, and with tattered garactive in showing up the said affiant acknowledge. the preliminary arrangements that ed to do their auty. with the result ments, al. suggested in said pictures that depositors, their friends, relaYours truly, that Rickey was indicted. and affiant to have been caused directly by the tives and their friends and relatives have been made by Warden Maxwell J. T. DAVIS, Cashier. from the tenor of his affidavit is surconduct of affiant as director and for his transition from this life inunto the third and fourth generation prised and pained thereat. Seven in of them that hate Tom Rickey are inpresident of said bank. to the world beyond have been temdictments, he says, were in Ormsby dustriously abusing the affiant for porarily suspended. Notice of Appeal "And in others of said pictures and county alone. He tried to have them wrecking the bank, and that for these had been given by his attorney, Frank cartoons SO published from time to quashed but could not do SO and went and sundry and divers other reasons Maher and pending a determination time in said newspapers, affiant was to the Supreme Court where a rulhe cannot get a fair trial in Ormsby ou the questions involved, the stay of represented as living in luxury puring relieved his mind greatly, releasCOMMISSION WILL county. or in half a dozen other counexecution has been granted. The chased with ne money he had filched ing him from custody on a writ of ties in the State of Nevada. from said bank while women and crime for which Petty was convicted habeas corpus. was one of the most brutal in the starving children, old. aged persons. The affidavit bears down partienHe pays the newspapers a complicriminal annals of this state and if larly hard on the newspapers. It dedecrepit and sick persons, were subGO TO SPOKAN ment by saying that they furnished a man should be executed he is votes several pages to a description jeeted to distress and misery because the principal means and sources of the one He shot down his wife in of what Senator Newlands calls the the 10SS of deposits in said bank information for the people in the said cold blood and then in his own deall of which was charged to have been "mellific" influence of the cartoon, as Commissioners to Nevada points are on the Bartine, Railroad counties wherein the said newspapers fense went upon me stand and with she is cartconed in Nevada. The directly caused by the conduct of afface. The only justification th Thurtell and Shaughnessy left Salt were published, that all the said all the depravity of his kind pleaded language of the affidavit is: "That fiant as president and as a director roads claim for their method Lake City for Spokane, last evening. newspapers have great influence and the defense based upon satyriasis. His of said bank. all of said newspapers, immediately sessing rates to interior poi where they will attend the hearing power in moulding feelings and optestimony upon the stand was of the The affiant goes on to say a lot after said bank suspended as aforewater competition at terminal of the terminal freight rate case at inions of all persons in the county most revolting charactetr and sickmore about the newspapers and the said, commenced and thereafter, to the manner in which Judge that point before the Interstate Comwhere the said newspapers are pubening in the extreme. the present time, continued most vio conducted the cross examinal power they have weilded in bringing merce Commission on the 29th. lished. That the campaign of pubTom Rickey to justice and the manlent. virulent and impassioned publiwitnesses in the Sait Lake case The stay of execution granted by Official notice has been received licity convinced 90 per cent of ner in which they have shed light in cations against affiant and the other how weak their claim of wate the Supreme Court was in accordance from the Interstate Commerce Comthe people of that State that Rickey directors of the bank. That all of with the statutes in such case made the dark places of the State Bank & petiton is. In fact showing th mission by this Commission, that is what he is declared 10 be by the Trust Co. affairs and then takes a and provided. said newspapers at all times after Southern Pacific company is the hearing of the Reno terminal newspapers, that these people hate the suspension said bank publishits own competition by its con rap at Sam Platt in the following case is set for October 25, 1909. when the attiant and "believe him to be language: ed editorials and statements charging the Acantic steamship lines a further evidence will be taken in the a person of no honesty and integrity "That soon aftetr the suspension of affiant petitioner, with having used Pacific Mail Steamship Comp case, and the oral argument heard. OLD RESIDENT and him to be a person who said Bank. as aforesaid. certain inthe funds of said bank unlawfully and As an example of the ex The hearing of the Reno case on would not hesitate 10 Take a false fluential citizens, one of them being corruptly for the personal profit of afcharges to Nevada points take October 25 will submit the matter to oath in order to advance his pecunthe United States Attorney for the PASSES AWAY fiant petitioner. and published statemodity such as dry goods N the Interstate Commerce Commisiary interest, and said people would ments at all times heretofore that District of Nevada, another being the The rate from Chicago to San sion ,except for the filing of briefs by not believe anything that was testieditor and publisher of a certain cisco is $3.00 per hundred affiant has used his office as presiMrs. A. B. C. Day, wife of Josiah the Railroad Commission of Nevada fied to by said affiant. dent of the said bank to make loans Out of this the Southern Pacifi newspaper of the State of Nevada Day and mother of F. W. Day. Fred and the raiiroads. After the briefs Then he concludes as follows: "So to corporations, partnerships and asrepresented themselves as being fampany receives $1.18 per h Day. and Charles Day of this city and are in. which will probably. be about hostile is the feeling against affiant sociations in which affliant was Interiliar with all the facts connected weight for the haul of 785 mil Mrs. ( E. Wylie OR Goldfield, passed one month after the hearing, the growing out of his connection and den to San Francisco. On th ested, and published statements that with the management of and control away this alternoon at the hour of question is up to the Interstate Comcontrol of said bank and trust comafflant had diverted the fuds of said of said bank. commodity the rate, Chicago to o'clock at the home ranch just outmerce Commission for decision. pany that law abiding persons of said "The influential citizens shortly af bank to build houses and improve is $4.29 per hundred weight, a side the city limits. She has been The cases now being ..eard before counties and of Ormsby county have property in reckless disregard of the ter the suspension of said bank as Southern Pacific company recei suffering from an attack of typhoid the seven Interstate Commerce Comfrequently warned affiant that he a haul 244 miles less than aforesaid, went through the counties interest of said depositors, and for fever for several weeks and her death missioners, namely, the Salt Lake, would be killed. and a great many wherein said branch banks were sitFrancisco, the rate of $2.47 per the purpose of indirectly enriching was not unexpectetd. Spokane, San Pedro, Pheonix and Reof the said law abiding citizens have affiliant. uated and said other counties and red weight. The Company Mrs. Day was one of the pioneer no cases, are all of the same nature, cautioned affiant against the danger of that for the 785 mile haul, th caused people to assembly that they "That said newspapers at all times women of this county, coming here the question being whether or not the assault by persons. who, such persons ings of $1.18 per hundred weis might address them and said influenaforesaid published statements than in the early ixties with ner husband freight rates applied by the railroads cautioning declared, have threatened renumerative to a `mited exter tial citzens did address such assemloans were made of the of said from the State of Maine, and has re from eastern points to Pacific Coast to kili and murder me because of my being the case the rate of $2 blages in said counties, making in bank upon worthless securities and sided here ever since. She was of a terminals are not the reasonable connection with the management of said addresses the same charges hundred weight for 541 miles upon mining stocks regardless of the kind and loving disposition and will rate to the interior points named. said bank. Since the said suspension excessive and unreasonable. against this affiant as were then and value of the property because affiant be mounted by hundreds of acquaintof said bank. affiant has been conIn the case of Spokane, the Interhad theretofore been made in said only one of over a thousand ex had an interest as borrower and ances and friends who have enjoyed stantly threatened with physicial viostate Commerce Commission has althat could be shown. newspapers, and charged that the would profit by the loan made. And her hospitality and known her life lence and murder at the hands of said ready rendered a decision giving that said suspension and failure of said said newspapers a' all times as aforeand works of love and charity. She depositors. point less than terminal rates on class CARD OF THANKS bank was entirely the result of the said, published statements that after was one of the truty home women of "Affiant is convinced and declares rates and a few commodities, and a management and control of the said We sincerely desire to than the .ank had failed affiant had favthis community and her demise will and says that from prejudice in said rate slightly higher on other comaffiant and in this connection they who SO kindly assisted us in o ored some depositors as against othmourned by all with whom she above named counties and in said modities. Owing to the fact that stated that said affiant had practicalof sorrow by their many kind ers by permitting said favored deever came in contact. Ormsby county and from local inthe petition of the Spokane people and words of consolation. ly usurped all the powers of the board positors, by indirection to receive fluence he will not be able to obtain The funeral arrangements have not only specified class rates and thirtyof directors and had directed and conS. S. NEILSEN AND their deposits in full. while the other yet been made but will be announc justice and a fair and just trial in said four commodities from Chicago and trolled the said bank according to the MRS. N. NEILSEN. depositors were being injured by the ed later. above entitled cause. points west, the decision of the InMR. AND MRS. E. V. F affiant's individual judgment and for The affidavit is subscribed and terstate Commerce Commission was his own individual benefit and profit." sworn to September 7. 1909, before limited to the classes and commoHe pays his respects to Frank Judge Talbot left last even R. B. Treat, a notary public in and dities between the points named. Wiides, receiver of the bank. saying: Goldfield where he will MINING PROPMETERS for the city and county of San FranHence, the rehearing of the Spokane "That after his appointment as receivsession of the Mining Congre cisco, by Thomas 5. Rickey and is case. er of said bank the said Wildes stated being held at that place. The Connections for electric serERTY CLOSED sealed in due form by the notary. and charged this affiant with the Before the Spokane case was set states that he will probably I vice, of any kind, will no longer for week neglect, ommission and comfor rehearing. the Interstate Com-
