The Detroit times., 1910-08-29
WOMAN BETRAYED
.HEINzE INTO HANDS
Of HIS FOES
h1A.A THOMAS W. LAWSON.
Boston Man Confirms Statement Of
Mrs Lillian Hobart French That
Mysterious Blonde Lured Heinze
To Near Destruction.
Standard Oil Co. Hired Woman To
Get Information Which Led To
Heinze's Downfall, Says Woman.
- THOMAS w. LAWSON.

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-That the
statement Of Thomas W.. Lawson
that he knew all about the "Titian-
haired" lady agent Of the Stand
ard OIL ca. Was not rellshed at rs
Broadway was shown when II was
announced that an "officlaI" de-
NAL would be issued. William
p. Howe. assistant treasurer. was
delegated to explain the company's
position.
"Mr. Lawson's statement 10
too absurd &c be considered" ne
saio, and refused positively to 90
any further In his denial.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-Despite
the threats Of Lillian Hobart
French that she will make
trouble" for him, Fritz, Augustus
Heinxe, the Montana copper mag
nate today got his license to wed
Mrs. Bernice Golden Henderson.
The couple came to the city hall
In taxi.
Heinze turned over a dollar and
was given the necessary docu-
ment. He said that he would be
married on Aug. 81, but refused
to say where.
BOSTON, Mass, Aug. 29.-Standard
Oils red-haired siren who, according
to Mrs. Lillian Hobart French or
New York, lured Fritz Augustus
1einze to near-destruction in the
panic of 1907, has accomplished even
greater feats than that. according to
Thomas w. Lawson, OF "Trenzied
Finance" fame, who says he knows
her well.
Lawson will not give her name, but
n an interview here today he made
he fat statement that TO her wiles
s due the fact that today a certain
nan is now United States senator.
lie says the woman has been a
mighty factor in state, financial, fed
sral and even international AFFAIRS.
Lawson recalled the settlement In
o which Heinze forced the Amalga-
mated group during the copper war
Ind the secret conference In the Wal
at which $l2,000,000 was
said He!nze, whose control OF the
situation lay in his dominance OF Mon
Iana's government, where the AFFECT
al come: mines were located. Law
son said:
II remember the conference Mrs.
French tells about between HeinZe.
n. II. Rogers, myself and others at
he Waldorf-Astoria. II was before
had broken with the System Heinze
hA IL
alton and had even secured an over
night injunction to take control OF
he Amalgamated property. This
forced us to make terms with him.
"1here was no hesitancy on the
part of the gentlemen of the system
% use their accomplished secret
agent, the lady with the red hair,
wherever they found a man OF suscep-
.ible character. or her relations with
Heinze know nothing, and have no
u sire to involve myself In his affairs
With Mrs. French.
81 am surprised that the red-headed
ady marvel of 26 Broadway has not
come before the public as she has
been In the past mighty factor In
national affairs.
owing to this lady's powers in a
Ihree-day's seance at prominent
hotel in Union Square, a few years
,g6, a United States senatorship was
decided.
Again I'm an international compli-
cation. involving the sale OF foreign
owned territory to the United States
md in which an international scandal
lad started which threatened to in
solve a number OF United States SEN
,tors, this woman finally smoothed
he troubled waters"
Lawson's statement was called
Torth by an interview given out in
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