The copper era., 1905-10-19
PERJURY AIDED RAID
 ON GREENE STOCK.
Tustin Makes Voluntary Confession h.
 yOIVine Others.

TuStin Makes Voluntary Confession h.
 vOlving Others.
 The astounding confession that perjury and malicious false state ments had been employed in raiding the stocks of gold ard copper com panies of which ColonelW c. Greene is president, was made by E. B. Tus- tin, the banker, who led the raid.
 Voluntarily, and because of ill health into which he had been wor- ried by the fasle accusations made against his former friend and bene- factor, Mr. Tustin, at the New York Athletic Club, handed to Colonel Greene signed statement admitting the falsity of the statement. He also disclosed names of the high fi1anciers who, he said, backed him in his stock market raid. He agreed to take Colonel Greene's representa- tive to the Mercantile Safe Deposit company, at No. 120 Broadway, and there turn over to him documents proving every statement made by him in the interview.
 These documents will prove fire brands to the financial world. They consist of reports from brokers, show ing the extent to which Greene Cop per and Gold was sold short by emi- nent financiers, and of reports by mining engineers which MT. Tustin believes were false. The short inter- est is said to show loss of S3,OO0, GOO now.
 Numerous suits for libel and de- famation of character are expected to follow the publication of these documents and Colonel Greene re- fused to make any statements on what they may contain until he gets the documents into his own hands. He was so particular about the mat ter that in making public MT. Tus- tins confession he had his repre- sentative, H. E. Fansahaw, exhibit to each newspaper man the original letter, signed by MT. Tustin, to com pare with the copy of which the following is one:
 Col. w. c. Greene, No. 24 Broad street, N. Y. My Dear Sir:-Refer- ring to my recent conversation with AGr. Borden, your assistant secretary:
 I wish to say that through false representations that have been made to me, I feel that you have been wronged, which l very much regret, and 1 desire to state that many of the statements made regarding you and the corporations you represent as coming from me are absolutely without foundation, and unauthor ized, all of which I deeply regret. Yours very truly, E. B. TUsTIN.
 This confession from Tustin came to Colonel Greene just as the stock holders had by practically unanimous vote elected his board of directors. By the same vote, James Phillips, Jr., representative of the Amalga- mated Copper Co.,, and w. V. s. Thorne, represntating E. V. Harri- man, were busted. For the first time since he floated the stock of the com pany, Colonel Greene was left in ab- solute control of his property.
 Mir. Tustin's representative came to Colonel Greene's office with a re- quest that Tustin be permitted to make a statement confessing his part in the raid. He offered to make it in the presence of all the stockhold- CTS if Colonel Greene insisted.
 The copper king was astounded at this message. For six months he has been silent under the most brutal at tacks from Wall street enemies. had branded him as swim dler, seeking to rob widows and or phans by the sale of stocks in mines that did not exist. He had tried to make him out the most monumental fraud that ever came to Wall street. The attack has cost Colonel Greene over s4,OOO,OOO.
 Unable to locate the source of the false reports. Colonel Greene last spring accused Thomas w. Lawson of being their author. His sensa- tional meeting with Lawson in Bos- ton is now a part of history. Tustin admitted that he and not Lawson had circulated the false reports about Greene Copper as well as Greene Gold.S
 The new directors to enter the board of the Greene Copper Co. were E. N. Floss, H. c. Hurlburt, Thomas P. Wilson, N. A. Woodbury, governor of Vermont; l.. B. Baldwin and A. Bleecker Banks.
 According to dispatch from Daw- son, the gold shipments from Yukon