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week. Mr. Haughey came to the city accordingly, but after he had talked with an attorney he refused to attach his name to any affidavit or petition. He said that he had been instructed by his lawyer to sign nothing. Mr. Haughey talked with several of his friends while in the city, and appeared to be in pretty good physical condition. He exhibited much mental depression. He returned early to his home in Springdale. Mr. Kern then decided to go it alone in his application to court. Accordingly, his attorney, P. C. Knox. late in the afternoon appeared before Judge Stowe and asked for a rule to stay some of the executions issued against the William A. Baeder Glue Company. ONE OF THE LITTLE LISTS. The executions referred to were based on the following judgments: Gregor Meyer, President of the Real Estate Loan and Trust Company, $19,466 53; Acme Tanning Company, $2,935 85; Spiegel & Co., $10,815 77; William Flaccus & Son, and William Flaccus, trustee, $26,000; total, $59,218 15. The request for this rule was supported by the affidavit of Howard R. Kern, stating that the judgments had been confessed by L. C. Haughey, without the knowledge or consent ot the two other members of the firm; that the greater part of the amounts claimed consisted of L. C. Haughey's personal liabilities, and that the William A. Baeder Glue Company really owed to the several parties named less than $14,000. Mr. Knox asked that a rule be issued on all parties concerned to show cause why the executions should not be stayed as far as the property of the partnership was concerned. The rule was granted, returnable one week from to-day. The connection of the Real Estate Loan and Trust Company's bank with the glue company caused yesterday a slight run on that institution. President Meyer and Cashier Schauer both declared that the bank would not be aflected. President Meyer said: AS SOLID AS ANY. "The bank is as solid as any in the two cities. It is not a chartered institution, but an individual liability concern, and the stockholders are good for thousands of dollars morethan the bank owes." Mr. Meyer said that, in addition to the judgment for $19,500, the bank holds accounts against the William A. Bader Glue Company for $10,000, not yet due, but amply secured by indorsements. Before his departure for Philadelphia last evening, Mr. Kern said: "We always sent to Haughey, from the New York office, money for all the legitimate payments he had to make, every month, up to the time of his last cash statement, and we have paid all the bills he has o Kd up to two days after the Sheriff's levy was made here a week ago. Our payroll was something over $2,100 every two weeks. Between December 11 and January 14, we sent $64,000 to him, which he paid out for wages, stock, freight and other legitimate items. His cash statements in New York show that abundantly supplied him with all necessary funds for the operation of the works." Mr. Kern goes from Philadelphia to New York, to prepare a full financial statement of the firm's liabilities and disbursements, for presentation to the court next Friday. A meeting of the creditors of the company will be held in this city next Monday. NEED A POLICEMAN. Last evening the officers of the Real Estate Loan and Trust Company's Bank, on Ohio street, Allegheny, applied to Mayor Pearson to have a police officer stationed at the bank to-day. The sidewalk in front of the bank was so thronged yesterday bv curiosity seekers that business was impeded.