The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1910-09-03

E. AUGUSTUS Elm
tana copper millionaire for $25, OOOworth
of securities which she claims he gave
her and then borrowed back again, has
given a candid recital of a new chapter
of her acquaintance with Mr.. Helnze.
Mrs. French. who is trying to keep her
old friend from Butte from marrying
Miss Bernice Henderson, a Broadway
chorus girl, delved into the Heinze
closet, and while in there took occasion
to rattle something which sounded
dangerously like a skeleton.
In brief, the woman said that the
Standard Oil Company through a beau
tiful woman spy, learned of MIR.
Heinze's actions just prior to 1907 when
he with Charles R. Barney and Charles
W. Morse were forming the United
Copper pool. Morse withdrew and the
deal fell through, shattering the fortunes
of both Barney and Morse and sending
Barney to his death by suicide and
Morse to the federal penitentiary at
Atlanta, Georgia.
Getting Euen
Mrs. French said that the Standard
Oil Company had been trying for six
years to get revenge upon Heinze, who
was discovered in Wall street at that
tiyno az GO froo1, rornr fa11oU from
Butte" Some years before he had die
tated the terms to the A~malgamated
Copper Company deal in Montana, and
this settlement cost the Standard $l2,.
900, 900.
The narrator told of a secret confer
ence held in the Waldorf Astoria Hotel
in this city attended by the late H. H.
Rogers, then of the Standard Oil Com
pany, Thomas W. Lawson of Boston,
and Mr.. Heinze.
Some of the details of the settlement
in the copper war were cleared up
when Mrs. French made her sensa-
tional remarks. The copper war in.
NOiNSQ SOuS u tdC COuQtiJ . 4O1CUO5t
inanciers, numbering among them in
addition to Heinze, Rogers and Law.
son, members of the Rockefeller family
Skipping over the interesting period
in which the Standard Oil Company
was laying low" and waiting for an
opportunity to even up old scores be-
cause of the dictatorial manner in
which Heinze had arbitrated the
Amalgamated deal, Mrs. French came
east and was installed as Mr.. Heinze's
housekeeper in apartments facing the
Waldorf. Mrs. French asserts that she
and Heinze lived as man and wife in at
least four New York hotels-which she
n~ames-before they settled down with
in the shadow of the Waldorf-Astoria.
Mr.. Heinze always spent much time
in the Waldorf. He usually took his
meals there and retained apartments
there aver while he maintained a resi-
dence elsewhere.
Standard "Cets Next"
When he, with Morse and Barney,
commenced to engineer the United Cop
per pool with a view to cornering the
copper output of America, the Standard
Oil Company learned OF his plans.
Mrs. French says: 1.-THE Standard
Oil Company people knew Mr.. Heinze's
weak points so they sent a very beauti-
full young woman up to the Waldorf
with instructions. She was a beauty,
Titan hair, Paris frocks and what not.
She had nc end of money and rented
elaborate apartments. She played her
game SO well that instead of seeking
the friendship of Mr.. Heinze. he sought
hers.
"They spent much time together and
this clever woman lost no time in worm
ing all the business secrets out OF
Heinze. In the meantime Morse grew
frightened and quit. Heinze knew
that he could not expect help from the
Standard crowd and took his medicine
and his losses without a whimper."
How many millions Heinze lost in
the consequent Wall street crash is not
known, but Mrs. French vivaciously as
sured the reporters that he vas bitten
very deeply indeed.