The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-15

| indicted and when he met Mulvane a
a hotel itzWas sintimated to him that {
move was on to indict him. Tucker
| told that he first secured the aid OF
Mr.. Mulvane through Representative
| P. P. Campbell of the Third Kansas
| congressional district He received no
tice that complaint had been made to
the Postoffice department that the
Uncle Sam company was fraud He
went to Congressman Campbell and
asked him what to do, when CampbeI
advised him to get the help or Null
vane.
! Tucker signed asking Mulvane to meet
him at Cherryvale the following day.
Before leaving on the train Campbell
came to him and said he had a long
distance telephone talk and that Null
vane would meet him at the Southern
hotel in st. Louis the following day.
He met Mulvane in st. Louis. Tucker
was about to tell what occurred be-
tween them when objection was made
bv Mr.. KrauthOff which was sustained
by the court Resuning Tucker said
he went on to Washington and salts
fed the Postoffice department that
there was no fraud and no order was
issued.
Tucker told that three efforts were
made to get fraud orders. each time
Just after he built an oil refinery, and
the Standard OH was back of the
movement. The first notice he ever
a, marked copy of the Oil City Derrick,
a Standard Oil organ.
Aside from Tucker. w. D. Corbin of
the Kansas City Oil company was a
witness. Wilson tried to have Corbin
say that John NJ. Davis of the firm of
Standard Oil company ordered the
firm to begin the bankruptcy suit.
Corbin could not be pinned down to
positive answers by either side. He
complained of a bad memory.
Topeka Man on Stand.
w. s. McClintock, Topeka lawyer
denied all knowledge of any Standard
Oil conspiracy.
w. F. Rightmire, lawyer, former
ly the Populist candidate for chief
Justice of the Kansas supreme court,
repudiated any intimation that he was
in a Standard Oil conspiracy. He was
once employed as an Uncle Sam Oil
company attorney by Tucker. but was
discharged after an engagement last
ing three days. In reply to questions
by Wilson he said that he had no feel
ing over his quick discharge. Right
n1ire acknowledged that he wanted an
opportunity to get a receiver for the
company, especially after he was con-
WINGED it was a fraud, when the cap
ital stock was raised from 10 to IT
million dollars.
Before placing Tucker On the wit
ness stand Attorney Wilson said they
now had some evidence to offer that
the Standard Oil company was in a
conspiracy against the Uncle Sam
company. There was a pleased look
on Judge Amidon's face as he said:
Il have been looking several days
for some sign of evidence of a con-
spiracy. None has appeared; you may
introduce =, Mr.. wilson,
There was some astonishment in the
court room when Mr.. Wilson said:
Here is proof of a conspiracy be-
tween the Standard Oil company and
the railroads"
He offered a large. thick book con-
tanning a copy of testimony taken in
Kansas City by the interstate COM
merce commission in March 1906. 1t
was objected to as not having any
bearing on the issue in the case, and
Judge Amidon sustained the objec-
ton on the ground that he failed to
see where it had connection with the
signing of the Uncle Sam trust deed.
A report of the commissioner of cor
porations on transportation and petro-
leum and another report from the
commissioner of corporations on
Standard Oil and petroleum were also
ruled out as not german to the issue
in the trial. au