The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-02-16
ROCKEFELLER TRACKED
BY SCENT OF CHEESE
Best Clue to His Whereabouts
Comes Through the
Nose.
YET EvAoEs coNsTAeLEs
Subpoena Servers Have Spent a Month
in Futile seareh-Jehn D., Jr..
Says That Evasion Is
Lie.

New York, Feb. I.-John d. Rookie.
Teller has been found. according to NJ.
r.. Palmedo. the process-ser who
caught HI. II. Rogers ana VINO has been
after Rockefeller for several weeks. But
he hasn't served his subpoena vet.
ME- RoclSefeller.is, hiding in the homo
of his son, the bible class teacher. Mt.
Pocantico Hills. Mr. Rockefeller has
been at Pocantico uninterruptedly, it is
said, since January %, when he went
up from New York under cover of
night and sequestered in the mansion
of his son.
In passing the Rock efeller reservation,
Two weeks ago one of Mr. Rockefellers
townsmen saw him on the links. He
saluted and Rockefeller fled to the
house. That night Rockefeller's auto
mobile Was sent by roundabout way
to the Pocantico Hills railroad depot
about q mile to the northwest of the
Rockefeller estate The townspeople
believe his automobile was taken to the
station to give false impression that.
he had left town. The Rockefeller es-
tate is now being inclosed with
barbed wire fence.
On the Scent
Residents of the vicinity of Poncan.
tico Hills estate found today what they
consider to be the strongest kind of ~
ciew locating Rockefeller in this neigh.
borhoou.
This is nothing more nor less than the
revelation that the one brand of cheese
which Mr.. Rockefeller fancies most is
still being shipped from New York city,
to Tarrytown. The cheese is arriving,
every day or so. consigned to some per-
son employed on the estate. The mo-
ment il arrives its presence is known.
While apparently possessing the one
quality of reticence which character
nil, nlc ,sx,:,,
estate, it is loquacious enough to de-
clare its existence no matter where it
is.
Although the regular employees of the
New York Central would not speak,
Henry Cooge, Il hickman, spoke freely
to a reporter.
Them cheeses," he said, 81 would
it was day or night. I have always.
been given to understand that it the
one brand he likes. 1t comes here reg
ular when he is here. and ordinarily
when he is absent it stops coming. l
have heard that he could not be found,
but knew that it has been coming up
here every couple of days. 1 am ac-
quainted with it and recognize it the
moment it comes out of the express car
and it is received by a waiting driver.
Rockefeller. in my opinion, is some
where on his estate
Discouraging Prospect.
II must be acknowledged that visit
to the Pocantico Hills property is dis
couraging. The golf links are under
four inches of snow. the walks are UNI
trod, the yellow glass enclosed house
seems deserted and Il long ring at the
bell simply produces a diffident Italian
youth who apparently does not know
who employees him.
Asked about Mr.. Rockefeller, the
youth launched into q graphic descrip-
ton of recent case of sore throat he
himself had suffered.
The blinds We're all down in the house.
THE absence of footprints indicated that
If any person We're in the house he was,
not venturing out. A large pack of
dogs that trace human beings on the
scent returned at nightfall. 1t cannot
be told now whether they were chasing
the man or the cheese.
SIS Evasion a Lie?" :
New York, Feb. 15.--On Sunday Jan
uary last John D. Rockefeller, IT., said
to his bible class:
"a lie is deceit intended for personal
advantage. Has any man the right to
resort to trickery and fraud to accom-
plish something know it is done,
but can we reconcile: it with our own
conscience? Is 1t even justifiable to
commit wrong to accomplish right
purpose?"