New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-18
MORE TRAPS FOR LAWSON
4 "CONSPIR4CY" CHARGE.
If That Fails Warrant VIII Be
asked. to Catch HIM Here.

II Henry w. w acK is una Die 10 nave Lawson
indicted on charge of circulating false stock
intelligence he will seek to discover the names
of Lawson's alleged partners, and try to indict
him for conspiracy under Section W. 16S, Grim
inal Code. Failing in either of these objects he
will go to a police court and swear out a war
rant against Lawson, to be served wherever
Lawson is caught in this State. This the
announcement made TO Tribune reporter
yesterday by Charles W. Beattie. Mr.. Wacks at
torney.
Would you care to say that none interested
in Standard Oil are interested in your proposed
suit against Lawson?" asked the reporter.
Il wouldn't say that" replied Mr.. Beattie Il
will say, however. that no Standard Oil interest
was consulted in the application for the indict-
ment. Naturally, there others besides Mr..
Wack interested in the case"
The Tribune received yesterday a long tele-
gram from the author of "Frenzied Finance" re-
garding Mr.. Wack's suit. In part it follows:
new man has broken out in New-Yorl. He
to read the public a lecture about my awful dongs
because the widow and the orphan have lost in the
for informing you that you have another lecture
sold Amagamated through out the length and
breadth of the land when they got my word to sell
shares. and they are continuing to sell, and the
,frenzied financiers' are the ones who have lost,
because they have been compelled to repurChaSe
what they sold the public, and at inflated prices
play their game of unloading when I gave
my warning
The. trouble with your client. Mr., Indignant Law
Yer, is. he was waiting to give the people. the
widow and the orphan he talks about that thou
assured his kind was surely coming. and was then
hunters.
man who was sent 70 tail FOR Starring false reports
we ut OT
public were flooded with, Amalgamated at 190
40 while like your client took it in SO There
was no necessity for inGcting any one then II Is
such as your client: get little Of the medicine
visit the District Attorneys Office.
When The Tribune reporter submitted Mr.
LawsOn's telegram to Mr. Beattie, the lawyer
did not appear to be indignant"
That's pretty good" he laughed, when he
had read it through. He fingered his pen
thoughtfuIly for a moment then wrote the fol-
lowing statement:
If Mr. Lawson had desired to help the widows and
fact. he would have sent his procamations out be-
fore they had come into the market in droves In
top and wavering and times his Mtterance with the
issuance Of the Presidents Message which was ex-
pected to be dangerous 10 values and then let's out
n way 10 send all small holders pell nell to ruin
to be able to hold his securities over such periods
and cannot suffer No one sells in panic except
Lawson, and well he knows ii. The money he has
made by his libels is their money.
II Lawson shows Il little less legal care in the
wording OF his interviews about me will nail him
Tor criminal libel or make q different trip than
Greene took to Boston.
THE talk that Lawson, because he prepared
his manifestoes in Massachusetts, could not be
prosecuted in New-York State" said Mr.. Beat
tie, lis all rot. The statements were circulated
and published in this State. weren't they? If
We could indict him for conspiracy as one of
two or more should not have to show the
falsity Of his statements go into the financial
affairs of Amalgamated.
The conspiracy 1 refer to would be TO com
nit any act injurious to trade or commerce.
Goslin was indicted on the two charges-con-
Mr.. Beattie and his client say they will visit
District Attorney just lies low and says nothing.
and Alfred Henry Lewis were among the guests
at dinner recently given by Mr. Wack Mr..
Wack. it is understood is interested in the
Union Typewriter Company and A. ]. White,
Ltd, an English patent medicine concern.
Colonel Greene. when seen at his office yester-
day morning said with smile, in answer to a
suggestion that he might be willing TO give
some particulars of his conference with Mr.
Lawson on Friday: "No. there is nothing to be
said The episode is ended"
MI Lawson yesterday favored the newspapers
OF this city with several kilograms, among them
one Ito New-York Stock Exchange members"
and another ito investors and SPECTATORS