The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-06
WINDING IT UP.
Final Arguments In H. H.
Tucker Case Today.
Given to the Jury Shortly After
Noon.
COMES TO SUDDEN END.
Mrs. Tucker Not Allowed to Tell
Her Story.
More Advertisements Of Com.
pany introduced.
CONES TO SUDDEN END.


menced on their final argument ro,,nd
ing up the evidence that each had been
aDle TO mass up in the ten days of ex-
ANIMATION and cross-examination Of
witnesses. H. J. Bone. United stats.
oistrlct attorney, acting for the gov
ernment and the prosecution. was Civ
en- an hour and a half in which to pre-
SEM ms case to the jury while Albert
- Wilson, attorney for H. H. Tucker.
'r,, was given the same period of time.
~ LOU Doth sides concluded and
the Jury was charged
+,a 80 n n. Tucker. Jr.. the wife of
tno man inolcted for using the mails
TO oeiraud Was the last witness in the
chair last evening. She is reported
to nave said that one of the postoffice
inspectors either Chance Leonard or
cation of the Uncle sam Oil comnanv
At the company's Offices at Kansas
CITY, Kan, had stated that he didn't
nave any use for a CRATER who didn't
uIsioe. MRS Tucker was placed on
the stand and questioned concerning
TINS statement by Tucker in an effort
10 hurt the standing of the post Office
inspectors in the eyes of the iury hut
fsa pe.ore sne could answer H. J. Bone,
United states attorney objected. the
objection being sustained by the court I
MIS-. Iucker was dismissed by Will
son VINO announced at the same time
that the defense rested, H j. Bone in
turn stated that the government rest
O'Clock after full eight days, the last
three days including night sessions of
| two hours duration each.
tucker continued the greater part
OF yesterday afternoon as he did in the
| forepart of the day to dodge the ques-
| t1ons fired at him by the prosecution
until forced by the court to answer.
| He stated that if the oil well did not
! Y II frrl1 5-sI
as he had advertised it was due to the
fact that he had been misinformed by
the oil company's employees.
He admitted that the raise in the
price OF the stock contemplated for
August II. 1906, was arbitrarily de-
cided upon and that in advance notices
fwere- sent out to stockholders of this
new price for the purpose of giving
them an opportunity of purchasing
more at the old price. When the in
crease did not come about he stated
| the cause was due to some stockhoId-
ers placing stock on the market at a
low price The "even up stock buy
ing offer by which a stockholder turn
ed in the stock that he held at GER
tain price together with additional
cash for another block of stock was
then adopted to raise the cash neces-
sary.
An advertisement of the company of
1906 stated that $16O,O0o which would
| be received from the sale Of stock still
In the treasury would complete the
improvements on all the properties.
Between that date and the following
January Tucker admitted that the
$160,000 had been realized but stated
that as reason for the failure of the
company to complete the properties
that it had changed its plans.
| Mr.. Wilson's Charges
There is some leak, some villain in
the pOstoffice department In the en-
ploy of the Standard Oil company try
ing to wreck the Uncle Sam Oil COM
| pany." was the sensational statement
made by A. L. Wilson, attorney for
H. II. Tucker, jr., promoter of the Uncle
| Sam Oil company as he made his sum-
| ming up speech to the federal jury.
| The Standard Oil company was refer
red to at every turn of the road by
| Wilson while Tucker was described as
1.-The instrument Of God Almighty to
| humble the great oil trust.
81 want you to lay your finger on
such motive" said H. ]. Bone, United
| States district attorney, to the jury in
reply to the charge of Wilson. mo one
| said that the postmaster general or the
great department of justice had dis
honest motive in prosecuting this case
excepting the leering intimations of
| Tucker himself on the witness stand"
Wilson placed practically his whole
defense of Tucker on the fact that the
| fraud orders had interfered with the
| company's operation and that great
profits would have been made for the
stockholders had not the Standard Oil
company used its influence with the
government to harasS and annoy
| Tucker and secure his indictment. The
defense was an arraignment of the
Standard Oil company for its alleged
suppression Of the Uncle Sam Oil COM
pany.
The government insisted that Tuck
er's intent was fraud and used as one
| Of its telling instruments against Tucker
| the letter written by Tucker in 1905 to
an intending investor in the Publish
ers' Oil company stock in which Tucker
advised this man to sell his land and
purchase stock in the Publishers at a
| time when the company was financial
| ly hard pressed and unable to dispose
Of it's oil profitably.
| Hfte Makes Speech.
| D. H Hite opened for the govern
| ment with forty-five minutes of argu-
ment, Wilson answered for Tucker
| for one hour and half while H. j.
Bone, United States district attorney.
concluded the prosecution.
| practically everything that stat
ed would be proved at the outset OF
the case has been proved" said H. ].
Bone, United States attorney, opening
up 1.-The government has no inter-
est in this case but to get into the
facts The government has been
compelled under the circumstances OF
| the case to go to the company for the
information, to the books, to the en-
1 ployes of the company interested as
they were with Mr.. Tucker.
"When Mr.. Wilson said that there
/ was some dishonest motive, he said
something he could not prove; want
to say that there is not one word OF
truth in it. I want you to lay your
finger on one piece of testimony that
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