The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-09
TUCKER ARRESTED
Secretary Of Uncle Sam Oil
Company Indicted.
Charge Is Using Mails to
Further Fraud.
HEAD OF BIG CONCERN
Capital Stock Is Ten Million
Dollars.
Company Has Three ReflnsrIss
i'm Operation.
Value Estimated at Nearly
HEAD OF BIG CONCERN
Value Estimated at Nearly
Million and Half.

H. H. Tucker, secretary of the Uncle
Sam Oil company, with headquarters
at Kansas City. Kan, in the Wyan-
dotte building, was indicted by the fed
eral grand jury Monday afternoon for
using the United States mails to de-
fraud. His arrest at Kansas City fol-
lowed, writ of capias having been
issued.
The penalty may be a severe one on
conviction-the maximum penalty BE-
ing either a fine of 5000 or imprison-
ment for years. Complaints have
been coming in to the office of the
United States district attorney. H. J.
Bone, for some time. The investiga-
tion was undertaken only after ma
ture deliberation upon the part of Mr..
Bone, who finally laid the matter be-
fore the department of justice. Post
office inspectors and secret service
men were detailed to probe and the
suspicious of the United States dis
trict attorney were so strengthened
that he prepared to lay the matter
before the grand jury.
Tucker Still in Custody.
H. H. Tucker. jr., secretary of the
Uncle Sam Oil company, was brought
to Topeka at noon today in charge of
w. H. Mackey, United States marshal
on his arraignment he pleaded not
guilty.
Tucker is having a hard time to
meet the amount of the bail but is
confident that the stockholders Will
put up the money necessary and that
he will be able to secure it within the
next twenty-four hours.
ITS just pack Of doggone lies,
said Tucker. 1.-THE fight comes from
without the company. 1t looks like
the Standard Oil. They have been
bounding our boys all over the state.
1t is going to be hard to raise such a
big bail but 1 will get it. L intend
wiring all of the stoclxho holders and ask
them to put up $4,000 to fight this
thing through. We are not done BY
any means. They will find that there
is going to be a hard fight will ask
the stockholders to go over the books
of the company and check everything
hen If they want to they can appoint
a. committee to run this company.
am afraid of a. friendly receiver
there is no such thing q friendly
receivership. If L have to be locked
UP because L can't furnish bail, why L
am not too proud to go-better men.
have gone to jail. There will be
capsheaf to all OF. this. That 100000
deficit is all a mistake. l found the
and S40,0 900 that will account for that.
There is nothing wrong with the com
pany-every dollar can be accounted
for. I have not benefited by so much
as a dividend
Tucker is nthe care of a guard and
there is no likelihood of his being COM
mitted until he furnishes BAIL He is
accompanied by his attorney, John
Jones, of Chanute.
There is a great amount of money
for which Tucker has unaccounted,
said H. ]. Bone, United States district
He paid out $4,000 in
find that he has paid any other divt-
dends though he issued checks pay
able 151 days from date. He is evil
iently selling hose bonds now in or
l9xrfdn de q
$50, 900 worth of the $5,0O0,000 issue
Of bonds"
Enemy of the Standard.
1t is expected that Tucker will lay
the blame of this investigation on the
Standard Oil company and claim per
least this is the defense
which the government authorities con-
template may be followed by Tucker
Fucker has fought the Standard from
the start.
Tucker issued checks for the pay
nent of dividends, the checks being
payable 151 days from date. 1t is
stated that these checks will only De
lonored under proposition which
using the check 1or =
,urther purchase of stock
The presentation of the case to the
grand jury charged that the whofe
,cheme intended to advertise by the
,ostoffice esta ablishment and through
he mails an enterprise which was
in false, fraudulent and
MANNER IL 10 lAAC 6OFGtAt7
nent's further contention that Tucker
stock to his own personal use
itick to his own personal use
fuckers Meteoric Career.
A meteoric career has been that OF
/. H Tucker, who in two years time
loughed off the humdrum surround
ngs and life of bookkeeper in luTn-
,er yard at Cherryvale, Kansas, at
modest salary and emerged into tho
commercial world as a powerful an
agonist of the Standard Oil company.
/ little over two years ago Tucker
Who is yet in the thirties, got hold OF
n oil lease He sold it and made
,roht of about $500. He purchased
mother lease and sold that, making
aore money. He then conceived the
dea of promoting the Uncle Sam Oil
He took nearly every avail
BILE dollar he had and put it into
ewspaper advertising. 1t very nearly
roke him but remittances came
teadily drifting in by mail. He put
nore money in advertising. More
money came in.
1t grew, mail came in by wagon
pads and he had more typewriters an
wering the correspondence than any
ther firm or two put together in the
il town Of Cherryvale.
Today some 5000 stockholders have
invested close to $1,230,000 in his en-
arprise and the 5000 girdle the globe
He has disposed of $12,330,G0O in
tock, say the United States authori-
es Nine million of the original ir-
and $3.300,000 of an in
rease which it is claimed was not au-
horized. The ten million dollar cor