Omaha daily bee., 1908-11-11
HEARST LETTERS At TRIAL
Large Batch Yet Unpublished Looked
For in Haskell Case.
ARCHBoLD TO BE STAR WITNESS
Clarence J. shearn, Leading Attorney
for Hearst and Mrs.
Gould, VIII he Rt the
Omaha Hearing.

The trial Of the skell-He libel suit
which probably will begin next January in
federal court is expected to open to public
view a large and interesting collection Of
Photographic reproductions of letters stolen
from the office Of the Standard Oil COM
pany at % Broadway. hints of which have
been given by william Randolph Hearst in
his campaign through the east. 1t is said,
however, that Hearst has read only a few
OF hundreds Of letters of which he is in
possession and that many OF them will be
offered as evidence for the defense in the
libel suit here.
Another interesting feature of the big
trial will be the dispositions of John d.
Rockefeller's iieutenants. which will prob
ably be taken by one or both sides to es-
tablish or refute the charge that Charles
tions with the oil trust. John d. Archbold
is expected to be one of the principal wit
nesses and his evidence will. without doubt,
be taken by deposition instead Of in per-
son, because of the distance from New
York. Archbold's name was attached &c
most Of the letters read by Nj. Hearst
during the campaign and his evidence in
the libel suit will be heard with consider
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Clarence ]. Shearn, Hearst's New York
lawyer, is the attorney for Mrs. Howard
Gould, whose divorce case is attracting the
attention of the public. The Gould case
has kept Mr.. shearn so busy he has MOI
bad time to prepare an answer to the Has
kell petition and this led him to ask the
answer day be postponed.
John w. Battin. Hearst's local attorney
has secured a postponement Of the answer
day until December I. Mr.. Battin say
the case canndt be tried until the January
term, because of the large number Of depo
sitlons which will have to be taken at var
ious places in the country.
That Mr.. Hearst could wipe out the entlr
case in one blow IL he wanted to take ad
vantage of technicalities is the opinion o
Mr.. Battin. The law requires that in suit
against transients the petition must be file,
and service had while the defendant is Il
the county In which the suit is filed. Nj
Hearst was served on the Overland Limite
! from the west Immediately after it stoppe
at Union station. The train was tire
hours late and did not arrive in Oman
until about 1880 p. m. TIT suit was file
5 in district court about 10 o'clock that nigh
As the Overland Limited requires onI
l about forty minutes to cross the county
5 is believed the petition was filed befor
: the train reached the county border. Nj
d, Battin has communicated these facts to NJ
E Shearn, but the latter has paid no attentio
e to them. From this it is inferred that M
t Hearst will make no effort to fight tn
= suit on technicalities.
Mr.. Hearst's collection of STANDARD o
: letters, some Of which will be introduce
in evidence in Omaha, are said to hav
4 lpeen secured through two young men VIII
n worked in the Standard Oil office. Ono {
= them was a colored office boy and the othC
$ a file clerk. The boys, it is said, would e'
e tract the letters from the files about tn
time the office closed. take them to NJ
S Hearst's office. where they were photo
n graphed and then return them by the tin
o the office opened in the morning.