New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-06

your business before You became director?
might tend TO incrin1inate subject you to
Do you, do you not claim any personal priv!-
lege in your refusal to answer?
While Mr. Bedford remained calm in his re-
fusals to answer, the Standard OIL lawyers be-
came aeitated in protesting that the questions
were unfair. and Mr. Rowe continued to insist
that his reasons for giving advice TO the wit
ness be entered on the record. Getting up and
waving his arms, Mr.. Rowe said 81 can't be
responsible for the ignorance of the Commits
soner'-
He might have said something more but Mr..
Sanborn jumped UP, flushing with anger. and
told him that he would have to leave the room
IL he did not show more respect. Some OF the
questions answered by Mr. Bedford before re-
cess the following
the STANDARD oil Company OF Indiana sells oii7
bos he dGecos Of t 5oT
Never while was present.
know
6t do WHICH know 1og as to 5h Business Of ns
little, except its financial standing,
Q-What are your duties as director? A-To at
te6d meetings et54 su2 u.... .
Q-Reports from whom? A-ofncers of the com
pany.
M6 5 the i pT 99ss5enf officers T5 Il the
Vlce-president- but can't remember the others.
After recess A B. Jockel. a former bookkeep-
er Of the Standard Oil Company at it's offices in
Newark n. J., was called to testify, with the
apparent purpose CT showing that the Waters
Pierce Oil Company was a subsidiary company
OF the Standard Oil Company while posing as
independent company He testified that he
knew W. r King, general sales agent OF the
Standard Oil Company at No. &c Broadway:
r P Tinsley. vice-president of the Waters
Pierce Oil Company, formerly having an Office at
No. % Broadway. who then was the man in
New-York who received all reports and trans
fers between other companies and the Newark
branch of the Standard Oil Company; B. B.
Backus Tinsley's assistant, who trans
ferred with T1nsley from No. % Broadway to
St Louis as officials Of the Waters-P Pierce Oil
Company about two years ago, and r. H. Nc
Knoll who formerly represented the Pratt Oil
Works and was made the representative of the
waters-Pterce Oil Company at No. % Broadway
about the time Tnsley and Backus went to
ST Louis.
Jockel testified that after he was employed
IN the Newark office of the Standard Oil Com
pany. in 1904 A c. Ebie. the chief clerk there
was transferred to Oklahoma as special agent
for the waters-Pierce Oil Company In No
vernber OF that year Jockel testified. he was
transferred from Newark to Oklahoma City to
assist Mr.. Ebie, stopping at st Louis on the
way to get some instructions from Mr.. Tinsley.
He was told by c. E. Young. manager OF the
Newark Office, by Mr.. McKnoll and by Mr..
T1nslev he said to be careful not to let people
in Oklahoma know that he had been an en-
plove Of the Standard Oil Company. He was
instructed BY Mr. Tinsley TO make out reports
of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company at Oklahoma
city on Standard Oil forms. He remained at
Oklahoma City about two months
o-while you were there, was the business con
Quoted by Standard Oil methods? A-As far as
ne ofG Working for the WatersPerce oil Com
pany had you resigned from the Standard Oh com
pa oEDid you have any conversation about this
tFab fSe g stain sRY Of cS0 0pang? No
Q-Wag Mr. Tinsle in charge Of +n the WsteT 1-
far as / was personally concerned, yes
QDd you follow the @ tbe 6 yGu bad sf been
or were then in the employ Of the STANDARD u
oWRat Companies sold oil i! the Waters Pierce
Oil Companys territory mere vas 1hg beeve
was the Coast OIL Company, or some such name
ODD the Standard on Company sell any oil in
the Waters-P1erce Oil Conapanys territory IN Okla
nc h9 nonguers but the Waters-P7erce oil COMPANY
itself carried the stock OF the 9anoaT1 O d
consumers but not in the original barrels; IN
ce tSe spsndard oil Company barrel were eptied
into barrel labelled the Waters-Pferce ol com
pS oEwhere did the Waters Pierce OIL Gompean any
get ~ A
phia some from Whitney Ind and some from cars
diverted to Oklahoma City.
ordered tn through St Louis. but from whom they
ISNDd ! the Waters-Pferce OIL Company pretend
10 be or claim TO be independent company? a
DID you receive letter from G. Ackert
general manager of the Standard Oil Company;
giving scale Of prices at Wrich OIL shouid % SOiu
Odd the letter show that oil was being SOLD 81
6 5ossa was the purpose? AT9 overcome op-
position OF the Richardson-Gay oil Company.
DO you mean competition? A-fes, slr.
While Iockel was testifying there was handed
70 the reporters memorandum which had been
rrepared by a STANDARD OIL director, stating that
the witness. previous to his employment at New
ark had been locked up in the Tombs in this city
on a charge Of misappropriating 500 JocHel
later said il was true that he had been arrested
some years ago on such charge ana locked up
overnight in the Tombs while the charge was
being investigated, but that he was honorary
acquitted Of the charge and set free as soon as
the case heard
This is a trick to belittie my testimony ne
said. but I am not afraid that the STANDARD vi
Company, with all its power, can injure me.
Late in the afternoon Mr.. Bedford was re-
called to the witness chair and declined 70 an
swer many more questions, among them the fol-
lowing:
D H NJ. & W. H Tflford have Offices at No. 26
Are they connected with the STANDARD OIL Com
pany of Indiana or with the Standard OIL Com
n5 Won know that two-thirds Of the dividends OF
the 70 Tfo 9 at Nd g Bosdws as
as these dividends were declared ever since Janu-
airy l, 1901?
Al Mr.. Bedford's earnest request he was
cused until Monday Mr.. Rogers probably win