The San Francisco call., 1904-12-21
LAWSON
DIPS INTO
POLITICS
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popular fallacy. want to say that l
am not referring here simply to moral
derelictions, but to actual legal crimes.
If the details of the great reorganl-
zation and classification deals put
through since 1885 could be laid pare,
eight out of ten of our most successful
stock jobbing financiers would be in
fair way to get into the State >or
Federal prisons. They do such things
better in England. During the last
ten years three 'frenzied financiers'
have practiced their legerdermain In
London-Ernest Hooley, Barney Bar
nato and Whitaker Wright. The first
is bankrupt and discredited. Barney
Barnato jumped into the ocean at the
height of his career and Whitaker
Wright, after numerous attempts to
escape, was hauled up before an Eng
lish judge and jury, promptly convict
ed and sentenced, and committed sui
cide.'
Telling of the settlement of the Bay
State troubles, Lawson mentions that
when formal motion to dismiss the
receivership was made there were in
the court room two dress suit cases in
which there was $175,000 in currency
The minute the dismissal was entered
in the court records, these two SUIT
cases were passed to two different men
and they fairly ran from the room to
railroad yard, where they jumped
aboard a special car and engine.
Formal complaint was lodged to-day
with District Attorney Jerome by coun-
sci for Henry M. Wack, alleging on
information and belief that Thomas w.
Lawson made. thirty separate false
statements in newspapers concerning
the Amalgamated Copper Company.
An appointment was made for 1l:3O
o'clock tomorrow and, unless present
plans are upset, warrants for Lawson s
arrest will be issued before nightfall.
The positive assertion was made TO-
night that Standard Oil interests had
no intention of instituting an action for
criminal libel or any other proceeding
against Thomas w. Lawson, his pub
fishers, the Ridgway- -Thayer Company,
or the American News Company be-
cause of anything that has thus far
been embodied in the ''Frenzied FL
nance" articles. of which Lawson is
the author.
AS to the position of H. H. Rogers
and his associates who had anything
to do with Bay State Gas matters. it
it may. be said authoritively that
their side of the transaction will be
told at the proper time and in the
proper place-the United States court
when the suit brought by the re
ceiver against Rogers and others will
months.
BOSTON. Mass, Dec. 20.-Denis
Donohue, the reputed author of several
articles in the New York Commercial
attacking some of Lawson's mining
properties, has so stirred Lawson to
anger that tonight he prepared an ad-
vertisement defending his properties
and addressing Donohue in yitupera-
tive terms. This advertisement was
telegraphed to the New York newspa-
pers for insertion in the morning.
Donohue, having got wind Of the in
/ tended publication. telephoned to Law
son tonight that if the advertisement
were not recalled he would come to
! Boston and shoot Lawson tomorrow.
Lawson replied. in effect challenging
Donohue and telling him that if he
should appear in Boston the outcome
would be different from that in the
( case of Colonel Greene last week.