The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-12-19

q. Did YOU ever hear MIN say any
thins about owning stock IN the COM
pnny IN partnership with Grimes7
q. did not.
Witness excused.
BARDE A STAR WITNESS.
Mr. Fred Barde called and sworn as
a witness. testines as follows.
Examination by j. c. strang
q. Your name. for short. Is Fred
Bardc7
A. Yes, sir
Q. You are the correspondent and To-
cal representative for the Kansas city
Star. are you notF
A. Yes, sir.
@. Did you over own any stock in
the sanitarium company
A. Yes s!r
2. Please .e,l the committee how you
catne by Il.
A. After the company was organised
and secured their contract Cottingham.
VINO was one OF the organizers and a
particular friend Of mine. asked me one
day II wanted to make an Investment.
l said l didn't know and asked what
lie said he would let me have some Of
his stock if I wanted IL; that he thought
there would be a fair profit in it, and
said I would like to have 1t. and l got
some Of #.
G. How much?
A. Five hundred dollars worth.
@. Have you got 1t yet?
A. No.
@. What did you do with it?
A. Sold it to Mr. Cottingham; that
\ is. | suppose he held o. I told him that
/ did not care 10 own It any longer un-
der these circumstances. That was
shortly before the story came out that
Governor Jenkins was connected with
the sanitarium. heard It and I went
TO him to ind out what truth there was
in It, and feeling that II It was true that
ne had been connected In any way with
It that did not care 10 own stock in
II. went to him and he told me person
ally, in substance. I think. about what
he said to the department in his letter
that Is, that ne had placed the stock.
OF rather let the contract to men he re-
garded as his friends, for the reason
that he felt that he was responsible iv, a
large measure for the contract or would
be held responsible in that way. and
preferred to have men in the company
that would be bound to him in that way.
or at least by some tie Of friendship, so
that he could more easily see that the
contract was fulhled than he could with
strangers. / asked him II he had stock
in the corporation and he said he did
not. said that 1 had understood that
he did. He said that was probably due
to these circumstances. that I wanted
a friend Of mine, Mr.. c. s. Jobes from
Kansas, to have portion Of the stocx
and at my request some stock was placed
In Mr.. McNeal's bank to be kept there
until Jobes could be notified or found
It convenient TO take It up" And l fei.
that / did not care to own my stock
any logger. because l felt that his con
nection with 1t would probably be mis-.
construed, whether Il was right oi
: wrong. or rather would be construed u
an improper manner 50 ! sold my stocl
and told Cottingham that l did not care
to own It any longer.
Q. You know at that time who thu
stockholders we're?
A. No.
@. DO you know now?
5 A. l snow only a few OF them--tha
) is. they are said to be- did not know
who the stockholders were. l know tina
Cottingham was because he had organ
ged the company or had helped 20 or
ganIze #: he wa very active in It,
Q. You have no knowledge at el a
to who the stock was issued TO?
a. do not; know nothing Of thos
details at all
@. Cottingham took your stock from
you?
A. Yes, sir. AS 10 whether he took I
J. from me. he TOOK 1t and he disposed o
] L.. q. ..fT
s he sold II to some one; he told me that
r did not ask TO whom.
O. Was that five hundred dollars is
/ sued to you in the first place by the cor
poration?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. When you transferred It, did so
h endorse it2
A. Yes, sir.
}. Q. In blank-Sust signed your nam
c to it--or did you sign 1t over to som
3? particular person.
A. I could not state whether ] did o
not. l know that endorsed it'll d
l. not know whether in blank or not blanl
Mr. Cottlngham said II I did not car
to hold It he would just take II as
matter OF courtesy &c me.
r @. I suppose you thought you migi
W want to make some remarks yourself
IN the newspaper?
A. Well l just thought this way aboi
IL: That 1 had gotten the stock froi
Cottingham simply as matter Of pei
IS sonal friendship with him. He has "a
ways been very good friend Of min
h. and he thought there was good prot
In Il and he said that The company VI
organized and Dr. WinSler chosen
d. president and superintendent. and thi
fact alone caused me to have gre
deal OF confidence In the company.
had known him IN two sessions OF q
NO legislature and had regarded him as
nd very honorable man and a man of Il
en- highest integrity and think so still. al
had no reason to doubt but that q
Organization was properly organized.
BY Blakeney:
ay @. How long aid you keep that stool
e. A. / can not state now, but the cor
pany had been organized and the co
Ior tract let. Oh, ! spppose probably a couI
OF weeks, and / sold out very short
after talking TO Governor jenkins.
could not exactly give the time as
when II was
q. Did You make a profit on Il?
Of. A. Yes sir
@. DO you mind stating how ma
n YOU made2
sn A. No, sir; I paidwelli practioa
doubled my money.