Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-30
WERE ARCHB0LD
LETTERS STOLEN L |. |:
- V
Man Who Claimed to be CODE
tween Offered to Return Them
For a Consideration.
YALE PARTLY C 0RRoB0RATE J.
Copying Book Taken, Many Pages BE-
Ing Photograpllcd--I'n
by Hearst's journal.

New York, Sept pa phase of the
discussion of the STANDARD Oil, cor.
respondence made public recently by
late today When John .. Archbold,
Vice-prasiGent, made q statement ~
the AssoeiatedsP Press, setting forth de-
tails Of the alleged theft Of correspoil-
8dence from his files.
Former United States senator Johil
& t. McLaurin of South Carolina also
entered the field with signed state
inent declaring his attitude in the mat
ter of the correspondence between
himself ana Nh. Archbold. Mi. Arch
bold said: tx
.Oyer5thrcc years ago n report roach
ed me flat some of 4 Y letters fitu
been offered for sale 90 newspapers
III this city arowedly as stolen lct-
tiers. Examination showed that some
letters were missing, and that they
could only have been taken by some
one not only familiar with the office
details, but highly trusted, he party
ON whom suspicion fell stoutly denied.
all guilt.
= "A little laser. however, man Who
Brepresented himself as acting between
the thief and those TO whom the let
tors had been sold, proposed TO return
some OF the letters for a 4 consi erii- 4
ton His story was that the idea Of
the theft had been conceived by his
brother, who had at one time been IN
the employ of the company, and MS
brother had induced the employe al
ready suspected to accomplish the
theft according to the go-betWeen's
story, he had disposed of the letters
or{ some of them to two men. Who
purchased them on behalf of Mi
Hearst ss1ieWspaper,Sti1 the journal. NOT
\ only had stolen letters been thus trad 4
ed for, but the thief was induced 81.
4 carry off one or more letter copying
hooks, many of8Whcse pages he claims
were photogra phed {. other pages being
removed altogether The books in Dues
3tion We're, the go-betweeri salt re-
turned after As hours. 1t Is impossible.
TO say how many We're &stole EN- and 5sold
IN this way The thieves worked at
their leisure. It is not necessary TO
say more, at present pr to mention
Il names. Confederation of the goT be-
Z tween's story of three Years a go "
\ in his return OF some of. the cores
pondence at the time The production.
i5of stolen letters by Mr.. Hearst is
\ further corroboraton w.sObyiouslS
4 among such II coterie. aut henticity Of
their output Is. not to be lightly ac-
cepted The opportunities for falsifica-
ton, suppression Of context and dis
500
McLAuRIN's STATEMENT.
s8f New York. Sept. 229.--- Eek United
States Senator John u. NIc-aurin, of
South Carolina tonight gave out the
& following signed statement regarding
the correspondence between himself
u and John, ID Archbold, vice president
OF the Standard Oil company, AS re-
Gently made public by w r. Hearst:
An effort has been mad to create
!. 4 political sensation by the publication
of9certain correspondence betWesn8J Ohm
4 D. a rchbHld Vice president OF the
Standard OH and myself. For thar
correspondence have no apologies to
X make. At the timesof the letters I had
the honor TO enjoy and am proud still
TO have The friendship of Mr.. Arch
bold for whom / have the highest
regard At the time the letters We're
written. 4 was engaged, In bitter
y only my own political future, but the
economic and political principles for
which I stood and which, stated brief
$;ly meant tho emancipation of the south
from the ignorant prejudice 9of Bour-
bo1,ism and the bloody shirt into the
Freedom of an heightened south ana
the progress of an intelligent individ-
ualism. n # s5t
SIN the support of these principles,
and tile hope of this progress j saw
"A then no irnpropriety In enlisting as far
as practicable, the assistance of the
most progressively administered and
the most intelligeutly otticered corpotT
5Hation that human intelligence has yet
K produced. Nor has the enormous body
of statutory crime since created or the