The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-08
laWson's Statement that, the
Standard Oil Employs a
Courtezan Stirs Him.
STORY is BELIEVED TRUE
DESPITE THE STRENUOUS De.
MAILS ENTERED BY THE TRUST
-eELlEvED SHE PLAYED PART
IN 1907 PANIC.
FRANCIS PHILLIPS.

New York, Sept. 8.-No end Of
charge of Thomas w. Lawson and
Mrs. Helen French, the grass widow
recently thrown overheard by F. Au-
gustus Heinze, that Standard Oil has
q Titan haired beauty on its secret
service staff. Reports filtering out of
the oil company's ONCE at rs Broad
way represent John D. Archbold as
choking with wrath over the sugges-
ton that the corporation employs a
cultured courtezan to entice business
secrets from those whose scalps 1t
covets. In the vehement denials of
the impeachment made during the
week by Archbold. who 10 John DIS
man Friday, and sits on the lid when
the head Of the monopoly is discours-
ing before his Sunday school class,
there 10 the same disposition to dis.
miss ~ idle gossip the Lawson charge
that was shown by the trust two years
ago when Hearst exposed its relation
with certain public ofncials and news
paper editors whom 1t had subsidized.
Her Part In Panic.
As for the red headed sorceress
there 10 little doubt that she played
. vital part in the panic of 1907, and
that the role she essayed In winning
the confidence Of Heinxe and his asso-
ciates was In the interest Of the Stand
ard Oil. But few months before she
met Heinze he had beaten Henry H.
Rogers and others of the Standard
OIL group in important litigation at
fecting the ownership of Canadian and
American mineral claims worth hum
dreds Of millions. Determined to re-
trieve its failure to secure control Of
these mines Rogers conceived the plan
Of ascertaining the secrets of the
group through the medium Of a wom-
an and using the knowledge thus &C
Quired to precipitate q raid upon the
favorite stocks Of Heinxe with the
hope Of breaking him. In this way he
fancied he could get the control Of the
properties he sought, which he had
failde to do with the aid of the courts.
lmpenetrable ~ Q stone wall to men,
Heinse was known to be peculiarly
susceptible to the charms Of woman
hood. The Titan beauty who 10 . wo-
man Of great culture and persontl
magnetism was thrown into his path
one night at the Waldorf-Astoria, and
there began an acquaintance which
friends Of the copper man say ended
in the panic Of three years ago.
Then Ne Roalixad.
With great deftness and skill, the
woman while affecting to reciprocate
the interest shown in her BY Heinze
10 said to have gotten out of him such
business secrets ~ enabled Rogers
and his friends 70 put on the squeeze
where It pinched most. Not until he
found his stocks pounded to almost
nothing in the market. his loans In
banks and trust companies called and
his credit everywhere shattered did
the Montana operator realize the sub.
tletieS Of Standard Oil and the full ex-
tent Of its resources in forcing .
breach in the breastworks Of it, enc.
mies. Every Institution friendly to
Heinxe suRered-most Of them under
the pressure exerted against them
went to the wall Heinse IL not the
only one credited with having fallen
| . prey to the beguilements Of the red.
headed plenipotentiary Of Standard
OIL There are others who have god
reason 70 remember her. And hes
name isAt Mad.