The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-31
DIRECTORS MUST
PRODUCE BOOKS
Government to Ask That United
Copper Directors Be Sent to
Jail If They Refuse.

NEW YORK, May 29.-lt will not
be necessary fog the United states
government TO call upon District At
torney Jerome for aid in securing the
books of the United Copper Co. whicl
are being withheld by Fritz Augustus
IIeinze.
The government TO-DAY decided IL
would require the directors TO produce
the books or ask that they be sent 10
Jail ii they fail. The directors have
the right To the books OF the corpora
ton under the s'ate laws of New
York. and the governments attorneys
have found ample precedent for ie-
curing that the directors bring ac-
ton in the state courts TO secure the
missing books.
The federal courts nave taken tho
stand -such-cases- heretofore that
they are not concerned as 10 how the
books are secured, but that the direc-
tors of any corporation can be sent to
Jail for failure To produce the books
OF their corporation In court. II Is
stated today that the directors will
be SO toid by Judge Lacombe when
they are called irto court next Tues
day afternoon
A similar situation arose during the
prosecution uf the Fibre and Manila
association a year and half ago. The
books OF the corporations which we're
alleged To be in paper pool were
| turned over 10 the indicted man ana
the directors informed the court that
| they could not secure them. The
Judge ordered them 10 bring proceed
! .ngs in the state courts and they re-
ported that they still could not Sc
cure the books. The federal court
then ordered the directors sent TO Jail
and the proceedings in the lower court
were hurried with astonishing
rapidity.
! The government does not believe
that the books or the missing papers
are outside New York city. While
there is no way of reaching them dl
rectly. without granting 10 Heinze
mis- immunity they allege he is look
ing for. they are confident that an IN
ycstigation by the directors would re
veal the Whereabouts OF the missing
| DOOkS NllulH q Ntis ltW hCuiS'
Furthermore. United States District
Attorney Wise is OF the opinion thai
the nutilation OF the books of a cor
poration IS a federal AZ we'll as a stote
offense aud IL is planned 10 reach
Heinzc in this way, II IL is thought
necessary.
1t developed today that the pages
OF the missing leoger showed the &c
counts OF Otto ana F. Augustus Heinzt
and District Attorney Wise alleges
contained The very information want
ed By the government TO prove thai
tIIeinze loaned money TO himself AND
his associates for the purpose OF stool
manipulation.
When deputies from the United
| States district attorneys Office were
going over the books at the Offices OF
THE United Cope: Co. they made
copies OF ali the entries The cast
+Aeelf MAicn MAS examined first, show
ed entries tC the accounts of these
three men. A representative 81
( IIeinze sat at the elbow of the assist
ant district attorney and noted thai
these entries from the cash book were
copied By the government fnvestiga
tors When they looked for the page:
OF the ledger 10 which these accounts
had been posted. they had been tori
cut. the federal authorities allege. TIE
government thinks 1t improbable thai
the records OF the United Copper Co.
" hich is capitalized for 100000
have been permanently destroyed OF
thrown away.