Evening journal., 1910-08-10
CITY JUDGE NOT
In WIRELESS co.
Says Name Was Added to List
of Dummy" Directors
Without Authority
GOT CHARTER FOR
ORIGINAL COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. August 10
Along with using the names of high
officials in private corporations of
national reputation as dummy" di-
rectors, the Continental Wireless Tel
ephone and Telegraph Company has
used the name of Edwin r. Cochran,
Judge of the Municipal Court at Will
mington, Del. In the advertising
published by the Fiscal Agents the
name Of Judge Cochran appears with
those of other men as a Director of
the Continental corporation.
Judge Cochran declares that he
was never a candidate for the Board
of Directors; that he was never elect
ed thereto, and that the only know
ledge he ever had concerning the
Company was given TO him by one
George Davis, who announced that he
had told Cameron Spear and his asso-
ciates 60 put Judge Cochran's name
down on the list of Directors.
The facts have been spread upon
the official records through the fol-
lowing letter:
Philadelphia, Pa, August 9, 1910.
Hon. Robert Sharp,
Chief Post Office Inspector,
Washington, d. c.
Dear Sir
within recent days I filed
with you a copy of The Charlotte
Daily Observer. a newspaper of the
very highest standing, published at
Charlotte, n c., by Mr.. D. o. Thomp-
kins, one of the leading citizens of
the South.
AT the head of the sixth column of
the page on file with you there is a
list Of Business men of high standing
in various parts Of the country
among the Continental Directors.
Among them is the reputed presi-
dent of the corporation, Mr. Frank
T. Davis. who disclaims all knowledge
Of the business of the concern, and
Judge Edwin r. Cochran, Jr., of Will
mington. Del
Edwin r. Cochran, Jr, is Judge of
the Municipal Court at Wilmington
and member of the New Castle
repute.
He invested S4OO in the stock of
/ the Collins Wireless Telephone Com
I pany at the solicitation of one George
/ Davis, concerning whom I have writ
/ ten you before. One day, after the
! incorporation of the Continental Wire
| less Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany this George Davis happened into
the Office of Judge Cochran and said
to him.
They wanted some one to put on
the list as a director Of the Conti-
mental, and l told them to use your
name
You went bit fast in that re-
piled the judge. 1 never authorized
you to act for me in the matter. I
p, don't know the first thing about the
company l know nothing at all about
the men in it, and don't like my
name to figure in concerns of which
| know nothing.
You will find out all about il at
the directors meeting replied Davis.
and there the matter rested.
Some weeks late Judge Cochran
received notice of a directors meet
ing. Later he was advised that the
meeting had been postponed to an
other date and finally he was inform
ed that il had been indefinitely post
posed.
Judge Cochran has never been
elected a director except in the mind
of George Davis. He has never par
ticipated in any meeting or had
aught to do with any business of the
. Continental Wireless Telephone and
Telegraph Company. and knows abso.
lutely nothing about its affairs, noI
! does he know any person who does
unless it be Davis.
Judge Cochran advises me that
through the Columbian Finance Com.
pany, a dummy concern, operated by
Cameron Spear and his associates, a.
Nos. So and So Pine street, New York
he was induced to procure a charter
= in Delaware for The New York State
Wireless Telegraph and Telephon,
Company on April Is. 1910. Will
himself, Elizabeth Devine and Harry
Darlington, clerks i'm his Office, Judge
Cochran completed the incorporation
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