The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-04-20
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so free only once On his life did DE
cross the threshold Of MI Rogers home
and that was upon the occasion which
he mentions when he called upon Mr.
Rogers in 1895 To offer to betray his
associate. Addicksi nor, though he
assiduously pressed himself upon him.
did he succeed in seeing Mr.. Rogers
more than few times in the ten years
from 1898 TO 1905 during which he
claims close, confidential intimacy
CALLS NOTES COMMONPLACE.
Gle does not possess and never pos
sessed a letter or scrap of writing from
any Of these gentlemen, with the ex-
ception of MI Rogers. and from him
only a few brief notes Of commonplace
character
Mr.. Lawson was never engaged by
the Amalgamated Copper Company or
by Mr. Rogers to boom Amalgamated
stock or to perform any service on be-
half Of the company. He does not pos
sess and accordingly cannot produce
any agreement showing such employ
ment by any one authorized to make
it. Mr.. Rogers never say Mr.. Lawson
between the years 1895 and 1885, and i'm
the last named year he saved him from
bankruptcy in response to his pleading.
when the Amalgamated Company
was organized some arrangement was
entered into with A. c. Burrage of
Boston and Burrage it was, if any
body, who employed Mr. Lawson. It
the latter ever advances sufficiently
far in his story as to reach those pro-
missed proofs which would be receiv-
| able I'm a court of law and produces a
contract of any kind, supposing he
| possesses such a paper it will be found
that Burrage, his partner in Trlmoun-
| tain and sundry other schemes, is the
contracting party of the second part.
THIS MUCH ADMITTED.
at is OF course, true that Mr.. Law
! son, at his own expense or at the eX-
pense of Mr.. Burrage and himself joint
! ly. advertised himself and Amalga-
mated through the length and breadth
of New England and elsewhere and
reiterated the statement that Stan
| dard Oil was back of it and him; also
! that the stock would go to-the Lord
alone knows what-and in short Law
ished the resources of his exuberant
fancy i'm striving to sell Amalgamated
by the self-made methods that he has
more recently used in the case OF
Trinity Copper and is now using i'm the
case of Copper Range to the openly ex.
pressed disgust of William A. Paine
the president of that excellent little
| company. True it is also that Anal
gamated Copper protested repeatedly
against these tactics and the land
booming methods he was using to ad
vance the market price of the stock.
In this Rockefeller Rogers story o
The Stock Mark End of Amalga,
mated" Lawson's statements ar,
spoken of as naked truths clothed il
eXaggeration and mis-statements, spe
cial appeals to class hatred, the en-
venomed envy of the lackwit and thu
-do-well and the prodigal.
This reply denies that the men wht
formed the Amalgamated paid only
$39,0OOOOO" for the properties which
were afterward turned over to tn,
company on the valuation basis of SIS,
100000. 1t is admitted, however, tina
these men might have made 10000 90
in the deal.
The losses of millions which the peO
pie invested in Amalgamated Cope
stock suffered are declared to be du
solely to the decrease in the marke
value of copper and the unavoidable
causes Of market fluctuations.