The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-28
HADLEY'S INQUIRY HERE ENDS
NISSOURPS ATTORNEY-GENERAL
GOES WEST, CONTENTED.
II. N. Tiiford chief witness At Final Hear.
ing Admits That Reports OF Waters
Pierce Business We're Received at 20
2 neutrality-suspicious. Server TestificS.

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nut the trust ont Of business in Missouri
was concluded Yesterday 40 far as this
state is concerned. At the conclusion
of the morning session at az Wall street
Mr.. Hadley announced to Commissioner
Sanborn, who has been taking the testi-
monv here. that he would examine no
more witnesses in this city.
He left for st. Louis last night, where
he will take the testimony of Fl. Clay Pierce,
president of the Waters-Pierce company,
and one or two other witnesses. The
en,i ire testimony will then be submitted
to the Supreme Court of Missouri and upon
it Mr.. Hadley expects to get a decision
revoking the licenses of the Standard OIL
Company of Indiana and the Republic
oil Company of New York and multiplying
the charter Of the Waters Pierce company,
which is a Missouri corporation.
These three companies, it Is charged,
although ostensibly independent and COM
peting concerns were really controlled
and directed by the Standard Oil from
?a7Rroadway. Instead of competing they
divided Missouri up into trade territories
and The prices at which they sold were fixed
hv the parent company in defiance OF the
anti.trlst Ii avs of the State.
Il feel" said Mr.. Hadley before lea wing
for the West last evening, that I have
secured the information l came here to
Get. and in addition considerable informa-
ton showing the control Of the three re-
spondent companies by the Standard Oil
Company. | had to come here to get that
information because at the time the action
WIS started the witnesses refused to answer
on the ground thai their testimony might
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States Supreme Court has changed the
law. II was the decision of this court,
together with the decisions Of the Missouri
and New York Supreme Courts, that made
n possible for me to secure the evidence /
sought"
DO you think that the evidence you have
secured here is sufficient to put the STANDARD
out of business in your home State7" Mr..
Hadley was asked.
'Ithink it is sufficient to sustain the allega-
tons made in these suits, was his reply.
From the attorneys for the respondents 1t
was learned that the whole matter will be
carried to the Supreme Court Of the United
States.
HIM. Tilford who; John D. Archbold testi-
fed the day before, you'd probably know
all about the Standards business in the
ml10Ie west, anu WHO uhu DOOl Nv SNlh-
mercial agent Of the Waters-Pierce Com
nany before its reorganization in 1900, was
the first witness yesterday. He was sue
Ceeded as commercial agent by r. Fl. McNall;
who had a desk in the witness Office at 20
Broadway. When asked il he was a men,
Der Of the domestic trades COMMITTEES" OF
the trust, he said he had never heard Of such
a body. Mr.. Hadley showed him a copy Of q
,A..-kLakL o had -ritfan RI IT r Ha vRa0n
in which he mentioned the trades com-
mittee, and then Mr.. Tilford remembered
that there wal such a body.
O. You know r. H. McNallf A. I do.
O. Where is he now? A. / don know.
O.. Where did he go to? A. l don't know.
I haven't seen him since last November.
O.. Has he absented himself since this suit
began to warm up a bit? A. l oouldn'
say. have not seen him lately.
O. His desk is in your office yet, isn't III
A. Yes. sir.
O. And no one occupies IT. A. No, sir.
O.. Who has taken his placer A. No one
that I know Of.
Mr.. Tilford admitted that Mr.. McNall
had shown him many reports from the
Waters Pierce Oil Company. Anything
that came to 20 Broadway about the Waters
Pierce company went to McNall as COM
mercial agent.
Mir. Walter Jennings was the agenti'
mot the commercial agent, asked Mr.,
Hadley.
"He was"
Who enjoys that rare distinction nowi'
MIR. Arnold"
An, see that he is here to answer for
himself" said the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Mr.. Hadley then showed the witness a
copy Of a daily cash statement ofthe Waters
Pierce company which was sent to MIR.
McNall from st. Louis. The witness adj
united that he had seen such statements
before, but he doubted that they had been
rendered daily. The witness also adj
m1tted that no subsidiary concern of the
Standard could sell oil in the territory OF
another. If the sale was made the order
wa filed by the company in whose terri
tory the transaction was carried out.
He Arnold, an accountant OF the Stand
ard OIL Company, was rather backward
about telling what his employment was.
He said that no made his reports to a Mr..
hia&Sih o i no,, ,sted the Attornsv-Gersra,
oh. he is a man in the building" re-
Piled the witness.
What position does he hold?"
Il don't know"
who ordered you to report to him?'
re- sisted Mr.. Hadley..
Mr.. King himself replied the witness
solemnly. No further information about
the mysterious Mr.. King could be extracted
from the witness except that he had charge
w 'Elldlll TuItH llltlt'
Before winding up the hearing Mr.. Had
Icy evidently was anxious to make 1t plain
10 the Court through the evidence taken
that the STANDARD Oil officials were by no
means willing witnesses. He offered in
evidence the letters that had been written
to NJ. F. Elliott, general counsel of the
Standard Oil Company. asking that the
men for whom subppnas had been issued
accept service without further ado and
the reply Of MIR. Elliot declining the propo-
sltioni also the letter that was sent to John
D. Rockefeller asking him to step up and
testify without personal service. No reply
was ever received to the lat tier. These
letter. were written by Henry Wollman,
Mr.. Hadley's counsel here.
NJ. F.. Palmedo. the process server to
whom the subpPnas were given, went on
the stand and told Of the dificulties he
encountered in serving some of them.
Others he never succeeded in serving at all.
Mr.. Archb Did. Mr.. Moffatt and Mr..
Page" he said, accepted service volun-
tar,ly, but the others that | reached had
IN be served separately. | was three days
IN serving Mr.. Rogers. four DAYS in serving
W. G.. Rockefeller and two days in serving
Mr., Bedford. Mr.. Bedford denied his
identity, hut | served him just the same"
Did he take the fee?" asked Mr.. Hadley.
He did = reDlied the witness. and eVary-