Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-10
TEXAS HASN'T GIVEN UP YEl.
THE STANDARD OIL PEOPLE STILL
AN ISSUE.
The Assistant Attorney-Generai Ma,
Go 20 New York 90 Argue the Case
before Governor E1ower-wha'
MIR. Henry says.

statement of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral r. L. Henry, the state does not
propose to quietly give up further at
tempts 10 bring Rockefeller and other
New Workers, indicted members OF the
Standard Oh trust. to Texas for trial.
1t is understood that the technical or
clerical defects complained OF In the
requisition papers Will be remedied and
the demand renewed. Mr.. Henry may
go to Albany. New York, TO present
and argue tile matter before Governor
Flower 4 o the Gazette correspondent,
he said, when asked for a statement
about the matter and Its status:
Il do not object to discussing several
matters In This connection, since the
public has already read a great deal
or the case, and 1 believe the people
are entitled TO learn something OF this
prosecution, in order that they may
rightly understand the case and not be
misled by incorrect statements and In
terviews. In the first place. II Is true
that the grand jury OF McLennan coun-
ty, Tex, hes Indicted the following
named persons for violating the anti
trust law Of 1888: John ID. Rockefeller.
Henry NJ Eta Eler. Wuliam Rpckefel-
Ter. John u. Archibald Benjamin Brew
ster. Henry II Rogers, Wesley II. TIL
ford. Henry Clay Pierce. Arthur NJ.
Finlay, c. NJ. Adams, j. p. Gruett f..
+. A. Austin and W. j.. Hawkins. AS
has been stated, these parties are
charged with forming n conspiracy
among themselves to control the oil
market in Texas and raise prices of
oils and destroy competition. Some OF
the defendants have already been ar
rested and the state is now after the
balance. who are In New York and
Missouri. / understand that Governor
Flower has declined to honor Governor
Hogg's reluiMtion for the Rockefellers
add others, upon the technical grounds
that the affidavit Is not correct II is
also stated that the governor Of New
York win decline to deliver up these
persons because the crime was com
initted while the persons charged were
not present In Texas. and that they
could be guilty of no crime In Texas
unless they we're present at the COM
mission thereof. Now, It Ia not usual
to try cases like this out Of the court,
but iitasmuch IA the RoclSefellers and
their solicitor, Mr.. s, G. Il. Dodd, have
had q great deal to say In the public
prints, and have boosted considerably
about tho prosecutions being put on
foot for prosecutions and political rea-
sons, 1t seems to me that It would not
be amlss for some observations 10 come
rrom the state
In my opinion when the papers are
perfected and the subject is properly
presented 10 Gov. Flower he cannot re-
fuse to grant Gov. Hogg's request.
Asked upon what he based his state
ment and what course tho state pro-
poses TO pursue, he said: well, sir.
the requlsitlon papers viii be nut in
perfect order and the matter viii be
vigorously pressed before the governor
OF New York, and we believe he viii
hand over Rockefeller and others for
the Following reasons: He has hereto
Tore honored q requisltion for persons
indicted under the same antitrust law.
VIZ: the cigarette crowd. Then pri-
marty II is a well defined doctrine of
law that man may commit crime
Hgainst state or country upo1 WHOSE
soil he never places his foot. our
statute provides that persons who have
violated the antitrust law, although
they may have never seen Texas, NAV
be guilty OF an offensc and can be tried
and punished in our courts. Many
states have such statues win long Ilst |
OF well considered cases sustalns item.
There Is abundant evidence to show |
that the Ruckefellers and others In |
New York ana the Waters Pierce peo.
PIE IN Missouri are co-conspirators with |
the indicted persons in Texas and Nc |
Lehman county and are In league with |
them and are acting with them; that |
the New York and Missouri persons |
control, direct and order certain CO. |
conspirAtors in Texas about their sales |
and shipment Of oils and the said Texas |
persons In McLennau county, acting
with these persons without Texas make |
periodical required reports TO them |
about their joint Texas transactions. |
Now we have the RUclefellers and 9TH |
ers sending their agents TO II xas and |
procuring them to commit certain acts.
The persons without this state are as |
guilty ms II they had been personally |
present Mt the commission OF she crime. |
No clearer and truer doctrine has ever |
been uttered than this one by Prcsi1- |
ing Judge j. NJ, Hurt, ns great a crimi- |
nal lawyer as ever trod Southern soils, |
"a lives in Texas. He procures r who |
also lives In Texas, to go 10 Missouri |
and there commit an act which IN . |
felony in Missouri. Missouri would |
have authority 10 try and punish |
Again, for example: A person stands in |
TeNarkana, Ark, and shoots and kills |
a person standing In TeXarlsana, Tex. |
the murder is committed In Texas and |
the person doing the shooting may be |
tried and convicted In Texas aithoum1 |
he never before placed his foot on |
Texas SOIL. We may draw n more an |
alogous case from the Bible, the case |
Of the lth OF Urlah. the Hittite |
And 1t came to pass In the morning |
tlal DhNlu Wrote q letter to Joah and |
sent IL by the hand OF Uri9h" and ha |
wrote In the letter saying: "slt V. |
uriah in the foremost Of the hotties, |
battle and retire Sc from him that he |
may be smitten and ,;ie." King Day |
Ids orders were followed and Urlah |
the Hltute, fell in battle. And the |
Lord through Nathan Charged King |
David with the murder. Who DOUBTS |
that David was as guilty OF the mur- |
der IA Il he had done the deed WITH |
his own hand2 This anology has been |
before instituted In such cases Arain |
II a man stands upon the shore within |
a county and by discharging n run |
Kills another upon the high seas with |
out the county. he Is tIiabie FOR muir
der by the courts OF admiralty which
have jurisdiction over The loonlitv |
where the bah took eject and not over
the place where the perpetrator stood |
when he committed the crime. We |
nave no doubts about the Texas courts |
having q right 10 prosecute this case
In any county where the co-conspira-
tors agreed that the conspiracy ehoula
be executed and especially since W. II
Hawkins. one OF the co-consrirotors
resides In McLennan county. 50 ne
case will be pressed and arqued befors
Gov. Flower and In any other st,ta