The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-09
Standard Oil Investigation is
 Continued in New York
LAWSON MAY TAKE 4 HAND
Former Employe of Company Tells How Vigorously He Was Enjoined to Secrecy When He
 Changed Positions.

New York. January S.--Henry H. Rog CTS. the vice president of the Standard oil company of New Jersey and direc- tor of the Standard Oll company of lndi- ana, which Attorney General Herbert S. Hadley Is trying to oust from the state Of Missouri. was again on the witness stand today on quo warranto proceedings brought by MT. Hadley. MT. Hadley took up with him only two points: Whether the Standard oil company of Indiana has an office in the building at 26 Broadway, this city where the Standard oil company of New Jersey has Is offices; and wheth- CT the Standard oil company of New Jer- sey owns or controls d majority of the stock of the Indiana company. the Watt CTS Pierce oil company of Missouri and the Republic oil company of New York
 Mir Rogers said he did not know wheth- CT there were offices at 26 Broadway. that he supposed it's affairs are conducted in Indiana and that he imagined that James A Moffett, president of the Stand ard oil company of Indiana, has an office at 26 Broadway, but that he CMr. Rogersl, was never in 1t.
 Rogers Does Not Know.
 MT Rogers declined to answer the ques- tion whether the Standard oil company of New Jersey owns the stock of the other companies which, MT. Hadley alleges. Missouri.
 H. D. Hardcastle, who was formerly employed in the Albany agency of the Standard Oil company, was Mr. Hadleys chief witness today.
 He testified to instances in which he was transferred from the Standard of companys employ to that of the Republic oil company at Cleveland, and of the At lantic Refining company at Philadelphia. These transfers. he said, were made by officers or employees of the Standard oil company and one of them told him he must not be known in Cleveland as hav- ing been employed by the Standard Ol company Witness had some letters, he said, from Standard oil men which he was induced to surrender to Walter Jen- nlngs of the Standard oil company, in the hope of getting a better position but he received a ticket to Europe without a return coupon.
 Mir Rogers was testlfying when the hearing adjourned today.
 May Send for Lawson.
 After the adjournment Attorney General Hadleys attention was called to some published advice to him concerning the proceedings from Thomas w. Lawson of Boston, and he was asked;
 Do you want Mf. Lawson to come down here and testify in this ease?''
 Certainly If MT. Lawson knows any thing should like to have him come down. said MT. Hadley
 Then the hearing opened Mr. Hadey informed the commissioner that Wade Hampton, auditor of the Standard Oil company, one of the witnesses summoned had not responded
 Mrs. Butts Again Called.
 Evidence was again taken on d type writer Mrs. Ida Butts, stepdanghter of the late George l.. Rice of Marietta, Ohio, was the first witness.
 MT. Hadley read a certificate of shares in the original Standard Oil trust to George M. Rice; 1t was signed by John D. Rockefeller, Henry M Flagler and William T. Wardwell. It was endorsed having been endorsed in compliance with an order of the supreme court oe New York made in 1892 Mr. Hadley also read certificate of an assignment of legal title of one share in the Standard oil trust 10 George M. Rice. and asked Mrs. Butts If this was issued after the Standard oil company of Ohio was or dered by the court to be dissolved in 1892. They were signed by John b. Rockefeller, H. II. Rogers, w. II. T1ford. attorney, and F. e. Barstow as secretary.
 Frank Hagerman, counsel for the Standard oil company objected 10 this question as a leading one and only asked for the purpose of publication by tho twenty reporters present The objection was overrued Mrs. Butts said the pa- pers were owned by MT. Rice
 These six shares are said to be the only shares of the original Standard oil trust now in existence. Mrs. Butts said the Waters Pierce Oil company was < member of the original Standard oil trust Mrs. Butts said Mir. Rice said he had another assignment of title which he converted into scrip of the consttu- ent companies of the Standard oil com pany of New Jersey. These assignments of title were issued in course of what Mir Hadey called the ''pretended dissolu- ton of the Standard oil company of Ohio and the final ejection of that company from Ohio in contempt proceedings
 Mrs Butts said these shares of stock were tNflHnBelDl- iDI StoCk Di Abt oidiu- ard oil company of New Jersey.
 "Dd the Standard OH company of New Jersey become the holders of these companies in the Standard Oil trust?'
 Tt did said Mrs. Butts. She also. as admnstratrix of George M. Rice. holds certificates nf stock held by him in the Standard Oil company of Indiana. The Chess Carley company of Louisville Ky, she said. was a member of the trust 
 Former EmpIoye Testifies.
 s. D. Hardcastle was the next witness He says he lived in New York and en- tered the employ of the Standard oil company at Albany in 1897.
 Witness was employed there eight years and then went to Cleveland where ha worked for the Republic oil company
 He said request was made by Warner Jennings to the Albany manager for his transfer to Cleveland that Mir Cutler made an atranaement for the witness to see Mr Jennings of the Standards do- mestic committee at a6 Broadway. New York Witness said Mir Jennings offered him position in Cleveland with sub