The Sentinel=record., 1912-12-04
BEGS WITNESS ID
 TELL WHOLE STORY
ATTO RNEY MAxEY WANTS MRS. COPELAND AND WILL PAY HER
 FOR TRUTHFUL STORY.
Offers st,ooo in Gold Bonds and to Pay Her Expenses if She Will
 Tell All Of Alleged Conspiracy.

T will give Mrs Ollie L. Copeland
 s1 ,000 in gold bonds, bearing 6 per cent interest, payable semi.annually,
 wherever sae is, the same to be de- posited in any bank in the city of
 Hot Springs, if she will give clear and correct statement with proper cor
 roboration to prove that she had told
 the truth, as to this whole transaction;
 as to who was connected with the
 collection of tae policy from the
 Royal I1ighlanders, to H. B. Copeland;
 and I will pay $25 in addition to this
 to any one who will furnish her ad-
 dress, and put me in connection with
 her, so I or my attorneys cay consult
 with her; and l will pay her expenses to the city of Hot Springs or Little Rock if she will appear and make a clear statement of the facts In this case"
 This was the statement made to the Sentinel-Record last night night by Attorney R. E. l.. Maxey, just aft
 CT he had arrived from Little Rock. l. He had made a bond of $5000 in Little Rock yesterday aud had been | liberated
 | In reference to the above statement MT Maxey said that he would deliver
 the gold bonds into any bank in the lcity to be paid Mrs. Copeland after
 she had signed and sworn to trutl- | ful statement of the whole transac. | tion.
 Attorney Maxey in appearance be | fore the court delivered a severe cas- tigaticn of District Attorney Whipple, who he regards, with Detective Pierce l of the government service, as being responsible for his conviction. He states that the death oat1," which was produced in court, was arranged and designed upon which to base his prosecution.
 He also added that regardless of the result Of the case, he would de-
 vote his future time and money to Ia. thorough investigation of this whole affair, and that in the end he would
 prove his innocence of this charge, and would herald the whole of the conspiracy to the world.
 Maxey had been convicted by a jury of being an accessory with w. P. Copeland iii defrauding the Royal of $3,000 in claiming in- surance on two persons insured who had never died.
 The principal witness against Max ey was Copeland, who when appre- nended, turned states evidence and took plea of guilty for himself Copeland got off with a term of 15 months, and was serving that time when sent for to appear as a witness against Maxey.
 Copeland testified that Maxey had aided him in the attempt to secure the insurance money. This evidence was not directly supported, as to Maxey's guilt, but Justice Afford of this city testified to having talked with iMaxey over the phone about the same affair when the proof of death was being made in his court.
 Col George w. Murphy, counsel for Maxey. stated that he did not believe the jury verdict would stand before the supreme court He regards the conviction as based on the unsupport- ed testimony of an accomplice, and be- lieves that he can save Maxey from federal prison.
 Maxey has contended that he is in nocont from the start He swore that he had never had any business trans actions with Copeland, and only knew aim slightly.
 In the trial of the case a copy of what Copeland swore was a death oath was introduced, which Copeland swore had been signed by himself. his wife, and Maxey, when they start. cd out to defraud the insurance com pany The oath declares that neither shall ever tell anything of their trans. actions, shall never identify or rec ognize the other in court or anywhere else, and that if any one or two or shem were caught they would never tell on the others.