The San Francisco call., 1898-12-23
THE STANDARD O|L
 BURNED ITS BOOKS Men Who Did the Work
 Tell Tales. ROCKEFELLER OUT OF SIGHT SERIOUS TROUBLE FOR THE BIG
ROCKEFELLER OUT OF SIGHT
SERIOUS TROUBLE FOR THE BIG
 TRUST.
Still There Is One Employe Who Says That No Books of Value Were Destroyed by the
 Company.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 22.-The taking of depositions by Attorney Gen. eral Monnett in the attempt to prove that the Standard Oil Company had de- stroyed a lot of it's books and papers a few days before the Supreme Court or dered them produced as evidence in the investigation of the Standard Oil Com pany, was resumed to-day.
 John McNierney testified that he had been in the employ of the Standard Oil Company for over two years.
 McNierney said that on Saturday morning, November 19, he was ordered to burn a lot of the Standard Oil Con- 8 o'clock in the furnace of the shops Later in the day he said he was ordered to go to the Euclid-avenue offices and to get some boxes The boxes were taken down from the fifth floor in the elevator, but some one objected to them being taken out of the front door Thereupon they were taken back to the fifth floor.
 McNierney said that he remained around the Euclid-avenu office until 5 o'clock that afternoon and then the boxes were lowered by a rope and tackle from one of the windows. He was assisted by four other employees of the company. The boxes were taken to the company's warehouse. They re- mained there until Monday.
 The witness said that about 10 o'clock Monday morning he and man named Moran took the books out of the boxes and burned them in the furnaces. There were nine boxes of books and six sacks of papers. Some of the books were about lnnhaG nt r-ea much smaller. McNierney said that the books that were burned on Saturday morning were taken from the Euclid avenue office Friday night. He received his orders to get the boxes from George Fields, the carshop foreman.
 On crosse examination McNierney said that he and Moran burned the books that were destroyed Saturday morning. Moran helped open the boxes and took out the books and burned them. On Monday Fields gave him orders to go to the warehouse and get the boxes and to take them to the furnaces.
 At o'clock the taking of testimony before Notary Mason was resumed Charles c. Hogan, a foreman in the eni- ploy of the Standard Oil Company, was the only witness examined. He has been in the employ of the company for twenty-one years. He said he gave or ders, in accordance with instructions, to George Fields, to burn the accounts and books in the boxes hauled from the offices of the company to the Independ- ent-street warehouse. The boxes, he declared, contained a miscellaneous col lection of papers and a few books which might have been letter-press books, stock books or order copybooks. He declared positively that no ledgers or journals were burned. The burning of this material, he said, was of no con-
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 In July, 1896, he said, a lot of similar material was burned and in 1898 more accounts and books were destroyed This last time a number of account books were burned. Hogan said he had been requested to look at the books be-