The Washington herald., 1907-07-03

Chicago, July drought 10 bay by
United States marshals and wiry gray
haired Judge John D. Rockefeller. q |
prisoner in his own home at Cleveland, |
| ceased to breathe defiance at the govern
ment to-day, and through his attorneys !
| pleaded to be shielded from the publicity
| OF an appearance in court. The final plea
was made IN the Office Of District Attor-
| ney Sims late to-day, when a secret con-
| ference was held between the government
lawyers and the counsel for the oil king.
Every precautlon was taken 10 prevent
the conference from becoming public. 1t
was held behind locked doors, at an hour
when the district attorney has usually
gone 10 his dinner At the conference
were District Attorney Sims. Assistant
| District Attorney Wilkerson, and Attorney
/ John s. Miller. who represents the Stand
ard Oil Company in the case before Judge
/ lands. With Mr.. Miller were Attorney
| Rosenthal, his colleague in the case. and
| Albert D. Edy. Western representative
/ Of the oil interests.
! The conference was planned by the
| Standard Oil representatives. They had
talked the matter over, supposedly in the
Office of Attorney Eddy in the CONNER
cial National Bank Building. Then. IN a
body. the Standard oil counsel went over
to the Office OF the district attorney. just
before he left the building. Word was
/ left st Mr. Eddy's office that they had
/ gone to see Judge lands The Judge IS
| in Wisconsin.
Catch Him I'm Elevator.
! Following the conference reporters were
/ excluded from the offices Of the district
attorney. Then. on tip-toes. the oil
/ counsel tried TO get away from the build
| ing without having 20 submit TO inter
views. inadvertently, they stepped into
tho same elevator with 4 crowd Of report
ers. The only statement the attorneys
would make, however, was:
| I'VE called on the district attorney to
/ talk over the procedure for Saturday"
"Win Rockefeller appear in court Sat
urday?" Mr.. Miller was asked
| Il do not know"
win he accept the service Of a sub
poenay'
/ I cannot say I am not his attorney
have nothing TO do with any case, ex-
! cept that Of the Standard oil Company
Of Indiana
! In the district attorneys Office the only
! information TO be secured was that the
| conference was over the matter Of pro-
! cedure. The only natter Of procedure
/ which could now occasion a secret con-
| ference is the appearance OF John D.
| Rockefeller and William Rockefeller.
May Refuse to Compromise.
All the other witnesses have been sum
moned The matter Of how the ques-
tions shall be put 70 the witnesses Is
| largely in the hands Of the court. The
/ question Of the appearance Of the presi-
dent Of the Standard oil Company Of
New Jersey can be put in two forms
One would be this: If the government
will withdraw its deputies. Mr Rookie
feller will appear before Judge Lands
Saturday and accept service Of the sub
poena. The other would be: II the gov
| ernment will withdraw its deputies and
not insist on the appearance Of Rookie
feIler, other witnesses viii give the de-
| sired evidence.
Attorneys say that acceptance Of either
Of these would be an admission that the
United States government with the pow
er Of its courts, the secret service. the
army, and the navy was defied by one
man and unable 10 bring him into court
because Of his wealth. II is said that Dis
trict Attorney Sims will refuse, to-mor-
row morning, to enter into such a COM
promise.
state of siege at Forest Hill.
Cleveland, July 2-The United States
government has beseiged Forest Hill. the
summer home Of John D. Rockefeller.
deputy United States marshals are guard
ing the various entries TO the estate, lest
the oil king. believed to be concealed
there, escapes. Superintendent Jones this
afternoon issued the order that set the
department at defiance. He instructed
Pat Lynch. the lodge-keeper, to lock the
big iron gates at the main entrance and
TO admit no one.
The force of guards was Immediately
! doubled, and all persons who tried TO en-
ter were thrown out; several newspaper
in a big arm chair on the lawn surrounl-
: ing the Rockefeller house is Frank
, Schwenter. deputy United States mar
shall He has been on guard there since
this morning. and has orders to remain
there all night Frank Mox Chandler.
United States marshal tonight asked
the government officer at Washington for
l further instructions.
Didn't Find Him nj Lakewood.
t Trenton. y j.. July limited States
] Marshal Thomas J. Olcott returned here
tonight, after making an unsuccessful
attempt to serve a subpoena upon John
D. Rockefeller. at his Lakewood home.
Upon arriving there last night he found
r the Rockefeller residence barred and
1 locked, with no indication that II was
occupied.
still After Him at Tarrytown.
Tarrytown, n Y, July 2.-Five or six
r men, strangers to the town. were seen
- about the Rockefeller estate TODAY. They
e walked around the grounds. and some
even came up close to the house They
did not do anything but walk around 81
that none of the employees felt called
upon to request them TO leave When
John d. Rockefeller, jr., came home this
evening he said that they probably were
process-serveTs looking for his father. He
did aOt say whether his father was in
Tarrytown.