Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-09
NAMED BY MONNETT.
Squires, He Said, Attempted to
Bribe Him.
OIL MEN WERE ACCUSED.
The Attorney General said Frank Rookie
feller, r. Il. Squires and Charles n. Has
keu Were Back of It-An Expedition
Made by >quires.

COLUMBUS, May 9.-Attorney Cen
eral Monnett filed in the supreme court
his answer to the motion of the Stand
ard Oil company requesting that he des-
iSnatc the persons alluded TO i'll his
statement that he had been approached
with offers uf bribeS to dismiss the suits
against the company and named Chas.
Is. Squiles, formerly of Cleveland and
LOW of New York, as the party through
whom the alleged proposition was made.
The attorney general, i'll his answer,
said IN part:
THE motion having been made to be
heard May Is. the attorney general
valves the length of time and asks for
aH immediate hearing. He concurs i'll
the request of the defendant that the
court appoint commissioner TO take
the legal testimony which bears upon
the truth OF such charges as are set
forth III the complaint, or that such tes-
timony may he taken i'll any other mode
that this court may deem eXpedient.
The plaintiff had no means of bring
ing the defendant into court i'll con-
tempt without an order from the court,
but the same having been waived by
the entry of appearance by this motion
and to avoid delay, the plaintiff COM
plies with the demands of the motion
So far as it is abie.'
He said h could not produce the name
of the persons WI requested Ryan. or
compel Watson TO furnish nameSof par
ties who made offers, but thecourt could
DO - on orders,
He further SAID i'll part:
AS to the third request i'll the mo-
ton ad,lreSSad to til" attorney general
to naric the iGrty WHO had the conver
sations with him and 10 name parties
connected thctcwitn representing the
STANDARD Oil cummtnTs the attorney
general says that the party calling him
up from Cleveland and the party max
ing the proposition SET forth i'll the conf
plaint WAS Charles B. Squires; formerly
of Cleveland, now OF New York, and
the stakeholder and officer representing
the Standard Oil company that Charles
B. Squires claimed We're the parties and
through whom the proposition had i'll
some way come to him We're Frank
Rockefeller of Cleveland, stakeholder
of the Standard Oil company; c.. B.
SquiIts. secretary of the Standard Oil
company, and Charles n. Haskell, late
of New York city.
1.-The only agent or employe of the
Stand;ud Oil company, the attorney
general says THAT plaintiff can furnish
the court under that motion, that paid
the expenses of Dewitt C. Jones and
heard at least Il part of the converSa-
ton referred to in the paragraph of the
original complaint and the only name
IL, 1,in f,,r- icb
without legal process is the name fur
nishcd plaintiff by Dewitt G.. Jones.
Glnlcly. that of Virgil P Kline one of
tne attorneys in this case, then repre-
senting the Standard Oil company"
He said the court could secure testi-
mony through orders.
NEW YORK, May 9-In statement
to The Press Charles B. Squires ,a1d.
'fIf Attorney General Monnett, i'll his
statement TO the court of Ohio, said
that | offered hin. bribe as represent
ing the three men he mentions it is alb
solutely and unquaifiedly false.
Il know nothing about the statement
you say the attorney general has made,
but he surely could not have said L Of
fered him Il bribe of 100000 or any
other sum as representing men from the
Standard Oil company or anybody else.
| never offered a man Il bribe i'll my
life, and if anybody says did he tells
an ultruth.
''What have said before is true. [
had been approached by Il promoter of
schemes, aed warned the attorney gen
eral 10 beware of him. do not be-
Heve the man i'll question ever had any
connection with the Standard Oil COM
paHy or represented it i'll any way in
his Office. He WAS merely fishing ill
the hope of getting something for him
self. | thought at the time he might
have been representing the Standard,
and that is why | warned Monnett to
keep away from him, and by all means
not to resign or drop the prosecution, as
the talk would he that he had been
bribed.
Later learned that the man had no
connection with the Standard Oil COM
pany; that he was Il promoter and cvi-
IDENTIFY had tried to approach the attor
rcy general merely ON his own hook and
without AIRY authorization whatever
from the STANDARD Oil company.
Il cannot understand why the attor-
ucy gcne1al-if he did so-could say |
tn offer him IL bribe. 1t is alb
sIird and untrue The contrary is the
case. warned him to beware of GER
t.tin persons that might possibly lead
him INTO trap