The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
Not Rag and Bone, and Hank
of Hair" but Beautiful
Young Woman.
INSTRUMENT OF OIL TRUST
TO SECURE REVENGE
Story Is Given Out by Woman
Formerly of Butte, Who
Wants $4,000.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

by LeaScu wire 10 Inc Tribune,
NEW YORK, Aug. 27-Mrs. Lillian
Hobart French, formerly Of Butte,
Mont, who is threatening suit against
T. Augustus HeinZe, the Montana cop
per millionaire for $25, 900 worth of Sc
curities which she claims he gave her
and then borrowed back again, gave a
candid recital of new chapter Of her
acquaintance with Mr.. Heinze today.
Mrs. French, who is trying to keep her
old friend from Butte from marrying
Mrs. Bcrnice Henderson, Broadway
chorus girl, delved into the Heinze
closet and while in there, took occasion
to rattle something which sounded dan
gerously like a skeleton.
In brief, the woman said that the
Standard Oil company, through beau
tiful woman spy, learned Of Mr..
.Heinze's actions Just prior to 1907
when he with Charles r. Barney and
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 peni-
tentiary at Atlanta, Ga.
Motive for Revenge.
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
time as ga fresh young fellow from
Butte" Some years before he had die
tated the terms to the Amalgamated
Copper company deal in Montana and
this settlement cost the Standard $12,-
100000.
The narrator told of secret confer
ence held in the Waldorf Astoria hotel
in this city attended by the late H II.
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 sensational re-
marks today. The copper war involved
some OF the country's foremost finan-
ciers numbering among them in add"
tion TO UeinZe, Rogers and Lawson,
members of the Rockefeller family.
Skipping over tho interesting period
in which the Standard Oil company was
"laying low" and waiting for an op-
portunity to even up old scores because
of the dictatorial manner In which
Heinze had arbitrated the Amalgamat~
ed deal, Mrs. French came east and
was installed as Mr.. Heinze's house"
keeper in apartments facing the Wal
dorf Mrs. French asserts that she and
least four New York hotels-which she
they settled down with
in the shadow of the Waldorf-Astoria-
Numerous Apartments.
Mr.. Heinzo always spent much time
in the Waldorf He usually took his
meals there and retained apartments
dence elsewhere.
When he, with Morse and Barney,
commenced to engineer the United Cop
per pool with view to corneriug the
copper output of America the Standard
Oil company learned OF his plans.
Mrs. French says: "The Standard
Oil company people knew Mr.. Heinze s
weak points so they sent very beau
tiful young woman up to the Waldorf
with instructions. She was a beauty,
Titan hair, Paris frocks and what not.
She had no end of money and rented
elaborate apartments. She played her
the friendship of Mr.. Hcinzc, he
sought hers.
"They spent much time together and
this clever woman lost no time in |
worming 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
vhimper,
How many millions Heinze lost in
Tho consequent Wall street crash is not
known but Mrs. French vivaciously as
'ured the reporters that he was bitten
very deeply indeed