The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-10

' IICIUaITV Es Ts Tinsiey of St. Louis. Mir. Young of New York told me to preserve absolute secrecy as 10 my having been employed by the Standard oil Company" Witness said Friday he saw the state ment about which Mir. Page was ques- | tioned in the hands of Mfr. Boyle of | the oil City Derrick. and that q re- porter Of The New York American told him Page gave it to Mir. Boyle for ctr- cuiatfon among newspaper men. Mir. Boyle told witness that it was not his | personal property and he had to return IL. He would not let witness read it Ii related, MT. Jocfgel said, to a cxiEn- inal charge brought against him and never prosecuted, and of which he was l innocent and of which no settlement | was made in his behalf It was about two years before his connection with the Standard OH Company.
 F. C. Bedford, who next took the | stand, said he had been connected with l the Standard oil Company of Indiana for three years. Before that he was lp 1 the oil business in New York but he would not say with whom. Mr. HadIcy asked him if he did not know that a majority of the stock of the Standard | Pierce Company and of the Republic | oil Company is owned or controlled by | the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. ! .sb Declimen to Answer. | Witness declined to answer Oh advice | of counsel. Witness has been located at 2e Broadway for fifteen years. He ! would not say what other companies than the Standard oil Company he has been connected with at 26 Broadway
 H. c. Hardcastle was recalled. He said that while in the employ of the Standard oil Company he was trans ferred into tho Anglo American oil Company in England by direction of | w. V. Cutler. then manager of the AI- bany office of the Standard oil Com pany. When he went to Cleveland for the Standard oil Company. he said, AEr. Terrell told him that the price paid for the business of Schofield, SchurmeF and l Teagle was S1 10000 in cash and notes. That firm, he said, had refinery at Cleveland, part of which was disman- tied as the Republic Oil Company took possession of the properties.
 | Frank Hagerman. counsel for the Standard oil Company. took ID the cross examination. Witness said he came from England fourteen or fifteen years ago under the name of H. C. Houghton and located at Syracuse, N Y. He continued under that name for six or seven months when he took the name of Hardcastle. which was his right name. After a few months he the Standard oil Company.
 The witness said that E. r. TinsIey was agent of the Standard Oil Com pany of New Jersey, the Standard oil Company of New York. the Standard oil Company of Ohio and the Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
 Counsel moved to exclude the wit ness's evidence that Mir. Tinsley was agent of the companies. It was over ruled. To MT. Hadley he sald that when he came to America ne used the name Houghton because he was run ming away and did not want his par ents to know where he was
 Pretended to Be Independent.
 Witness said the Troy OH Works of Troy and Elecertie Light oil Company of Camden, N J.. were operating as in- dependent of the Standard oil Com pany. but in reality were controlled by
 Wade Hampton was then called. Es said he was general auditor of aceounts He declined to answer q question au to what companies he is connected vvffb He said his office is as 26 Broadway and that ne audits oil accounts.
 Whose oil accounts2"
 decline to answer''
 Do you audit the accounts og tb. standard Oil Company of New Tsr- Sey or or the Standard oil Company of
 T decline to answer.
 70 you audit the accounts of the 'Netta Cil company. Atlanfz Refinery: Buckeye Pipe Line Con,nanx, ForeSt oil Company; Indiana Pine TJns company; National Transit Cotnnan,r. New York Transit Company; NorfhsyD Pacific Line Company; Ohio c,Jl r-a,,,. pany; Solar Refining Company, sortb. ern Pipe Line Company. SoutbeTn Tsrn5 syivanis OH Company: Standard C1iI company of Kentucky; Standard f1ii company of New Jersey. Standard C1ii Company Of Now York; StandarS feii Company of Ohio; Union Tank Line Company"
 ' decline to answer"
 Do you audit the accounts of 4hs Standard Oil Company of fndiana. Waters-Pierce Company and the Re- public oil Company. aFsoTs
 T decline 10 answer, except do not audit the accounts of the Waters Pierce oil Company CT the Republic on Company The accounts Of the Stand- ard OH Company of Snd!ana are under my general direction"
 Who audits the Waters Pierce Com. pany's accounts?"
 T do not know"
 When did you quitg'
 l No answer
 | 1tnaley An Agent.
 MT. Backus. traVefing auditor. yvits ness said, was at one time under wifi nesss direction, but witness did not know whether he audited tho accounts