The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-10

1 company, it's cars he said, were used by 1 the Waters-Pieree Oil company and the Standard Oil company Of Indiana, but i he did not know that the Republic Oil i company used the cars of that company. Witness said he knows the National Re- l fning company of Cleveland O., but never knew whether it was an independent com pany. It has no offices at 26 Broadway. Mr Page said he has not been con neeted with the Waters-Pierce company.
 Was the Union Tank Line company a member of the original Standard oil trust?"
 "1 decline to answer "Did you not testify before the in- dustrial commission that the Union Tank Line company was in that trust and still in the Standard oil company
 q do Dbt recall all my testimony then.n
 Did you testify before the interstate commerce commission that you were an officer of the company which furnished all the tank cars in which the Standard oil company makes it's shipments?"
 "I may have. l included osner com panes also" said the witness.
 Mir Hadley asked if he meant to in clude the other companies controlled by the Standard oil company. The witness replied that he included railroad and cot ton seed companies.
 Denies Jockel Story.
 Mr Page said he did not on Friday, while A " Jockel was on the witness stand, circulate a statement involving criminal charge against MT. Jockei He did not bring such asstatement to the hearing He saw the statement in the newspapers that he had done so, but did not correct it. The statement, he said, came from the American Surety com pany. and some one from 26 Broadway got it.
 By man in the foreign department or secret service departments"
 'I don't know who it was. l tele- phoned there and got the statement" said the witness.
 "Oh. you did. Do you consider it part of your business to communicate slanderous statements about an officer of the Waters-Pierce oil company"
 Tt was not slanderous."
 Witness said the statement was given to M. F. Elliott. counsel for the Standard oil company. MT. Hadley referred to the statement as a charge that had not been prosecuted.
 MT. Page was excused. ~~
 A. V. Jockel then went on the stand.
 Mr Hadley asked him If representa- tive of the Waters-Pierce company ever told him about the relations of that com- pany to the Standard oil company
 Counsel for the Standard oil company objected
 Witness said he asked the man in ques- ton how the Standard oil company got possession of the Waters-Pierce oil com pany.
 He told me that they got control of the Waters Pierce company through the Mexican railroad deal. I got my instruc- tions to put the Waters-Pierce company on the Standard oil company's methods principally from R. P. Tinsley of St. Louis. MT. Young of New York told me to preserve absolute secrecy as to my having been employed by the Standard oil company"
 Saw Statement About Page.
 Witness said on Friday he saw the statement about which MT. Page was questioned in the hands of MT. Boyle of the oil City Derrick, and that a reporter of the New York American told him Page gave it to MT. Boyle for oircula- tion among newspaper men. Mr. Boyle told witness that 1t was not his personal property and he had to return it. He would not let witness read it. It re- lated, Mir. Jockel said, to a criminal charge brought against him. and never prosecuted and of which he was inno- cent, and of which no settlement was made in his behalf. It was about two years before his connection with the Standard oil company.
 Recess.
 E. T. Bedford who next took the stand, said he had been connected with the i Standard oil company of Indiana for three years. Before that he was in the oil business in New York, but he would not say with whom. MT Hadley asked him if he did not know that a majority of the stock of the Standard OH company of Indiana the Waters-Pierce company and of the Republic oil company, Is own ed or controlled by the Standard oil com pany of Indiana. Witness declined to answer on advice of counsel. Witness has been located at 26 Broadway for fifteen years. He would not say what other com panies than the Standard oil company he has been connected with at 26 Broad way.
 1ardcastIe on Stand. l H. C. Hardcastle was recalled. He said that while in the employ of the Standard oil company he was transferred into the Anglo-American oil company in England by direction of w. P. Cutler, then mana