Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1901 — HARNEY SCANDAL HEARD. [ARTICLE]

HARNEY SCANDAL HEARD.

Evidence Presented Against the Accased Montana Judge. A great mass of affidavits made by persons who allege that they know the habits of Judge K. W. Harney was presented at Butte, Mont., in an effort by the Amalgamated Copper Company to prove that the. judge decided the big Minnie Mealy mine ease iu fnvof of E. Augustus Heinze because Mrs. Ada H. Brackett, a woman iu the employ of the Heinze people, influenced him to do so. The chief evidence is furnished by Miss E. L. Walters and J. W. Waters, who had been on intimate terms of friendship with both Judge Harney and Mrs. Brackett. Both evidently made confidants of Miss Walters and Mr. Waters. The parties were guests at the Butte Hotel before and subsequent to the trial of the Minnie Healy ease and about that time Judge Harney gave his decision by which he gave a $10,000,060 property to Heinze upon the payment by him of $54,000 to the Amalgamated company's representative in the case. Miss Walters nnd Mr. Waters testified that Mrs. Brackett told them repeatedly that she was in the em|doy of Ileinzc and John McGinnis. Ileinze’s chief manager, and that McGinnis had promised her SIOO,OOO and had employed her to take care of Judge Harney nnd do other secret work for the Heinze company.