Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1906-10-25
STANDARD OIL TRIAL
1T COMES TO AN END IN FIND.
LAY, OHIO.
THE STATE LOSES POINT
Decidedly Important Evidence Re.
sarding Rebates Ruled Out by
court-other Testimony OF
Like Nature Not Offered.

VI tiS Oldlullu I'll COlDDduy VI ODlO,
for alleged conspiracy against trade,
came suddenly in sight at the con.
clusion of the session of the court
Monday.
Prosecutor David began his argu-
ment at ten o'clock Tuesday morning,
after two witnesses had testified for
the state and the defense had closed
its case with the submission as evil
dence OF single document, the de-
cision Of the supreme court of the
state declaring the defendant copany
mot guilty" in the contempt pro-
ceedings of 1900.
The prosecution told the jury that
there never had been an actual cess
alton of the Standard Oil trust of
1882, as shown by the evidence, al.
though the form of the organization
had been changed.
The defense made it's main point
that while the evidence showed all
the so-called subsidiary companies to
be owned by the Standard Oil com.
pany of New Jersey, not one syllable
of evidence had been adduced to show
that the defendant company was so
owned.
Weakness of Prosecution.
Mr. Phelps for the prosecution ad.
mitted that the state had no means
Of showing that the Standard Oil com.
pany authorized it's agents to offer OF
give rebates. The court said that II
Nua fin 10 tol ,.,,1a Nf ox,;Ia
that the authority of the agent must
be established.
Then the state will close its case
in ten minutes tomorrow, remarked
Attorney Phelps, and the jury, which
had been excused for this argument
of counsel, was called in and court ad.
journed.
A few witnesses for the defense
will be called, but it is stated that
the testimony will be all in on both
sides before the court adjourns Tues
day; that the argument of counsel tc
the jury can be completed Wednes
day, perhaps in time for Judge Bank
er to make his charge to the jury and
place the case in its hands.
Delay for Rockefeller.
An agreement was reached between
Prosecutor David and the attorneys
for the Standard Oil company where
by the case against John d. Rockefel.
Ter will not be set for trial until after
the present case has been finally dis.
posed of, whether this Is in the pro.
bate court, now conducting the trial.
or before the supreme court of the
state after all appeals have been ia.
ken. Until this agreement the Rookie.
Teller case had simply been post
poned until after the present trial OF
the company in the probate court.
John O'Brien, superintendent OF
the Buckeye Pipe Line company, and
E. r. Curtain, superintendent of the
Manhattan Oil company, both took
the immunity bath" before testify
ing in the case Monday.
With the exception of the last wit
ness, the evidence put in by the state
was from officers of the alleged con
stituent companies of the Standard
including the Buckeye Pipe Line, the
Manhattan Oil company, the Ohio
Oil company and the Solar Refining
company. 1t was testified to by Off
GERS of the Buckeye Pipe Line and
Oil company that the Standard Oh
company of New Jersey owned prac
tically all of the stock of these com
panies.
Must Show Agents Connection.
Tho Loot uitpacc Willis u IT1ch n
local grocer, was proceeding to tell
the jury that when he first went into
business several years ago he pur
chased oil from the National Refining
company, a local Independent con
Germ, but that two or three years age
he was visited by an agent of the
Standard, since which time he had
bought oil of that company. He had
no means of knowing that the sup.
| posed agent of the Standard was such
agent, and while Attorney Phelps
stated that he wished to show that
this agent had offered and paid Sc
cret rebate to the witness since his
visit, and that the witness had bought
all his oil of the Standard since that
time, he said the state could not
prove that the Standard had given
the agent authority to offer the re
bate, and the evidence was thereby
| cut short.
1t was understood to have been the
intention of the prosecution to place
before the jury considerable testimony
of the same nature. When Jud sc
| ponlar axpluda6 II the DrOSacutiOr
announced that w. L. Finlay, state
inspector of refined oils, would be
their only other witness and that his
testimony would take but ten minutes
| Tuesday.