The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-07
1T HAS HIM TREED
The House Money Trust Inves-
tigating Committee
Has Oyertaken william ROcke-
feller at Brunswick, Ga.
PMSIED, NEARLY v0ICELESS
The Aged Financier Consents
to Submit to Examination
By the Lawyers Representing
the PujO Truth Seekers.

Brunswick, Ga, Feb. THE house
money trust inquisitors came to Bruins
wick today to attempt to wrest from
the 12-year-old William Rockefeller's s
lips the secrets of his financial career
as the active agent of the socalled
standard Oil group of bankers.
After fleeing squads of subpoena
servers for six months from New York
to the islands of the Caribbean, the
Standard Oil magnate, palsied and
almost voiceless, agreed to present him.
self for such examination as the law
yers would allow. His lawyer, James
+. CARRIER, of New York, who came
south yesterday. was on hand to guard
the hnancier's interests.
Neither Chairman Arsene P. Pujo,
nor Samuel Untermyer, the commit
tees lawyer, was inclined to subject
would harmfully affect his health. They
agreed that the examination of Mr..
Rockefeller in his apartment overlook
ing the sea at his Jekyl island refuge
would be brief and to the point.
Two, incidents in the financial ca
reer OF Mr.. Rockefeller were the OBJ
ject of the long chase. Mr.. Inter
myer wanted to get into the record
ORD the history of the socalled "fren-
the history of the socalled "frenzied
finance" organization of the Anal
gamated Copper company in 1901
and the romance of the transactions
in Amalgamated stock in 1905 and
1907 when the securities, after a dizzy
climb to about 120 points dropped to
AZ.
Story of the Amalgamated.
William Rockefeller, with the late
H H. Rogers, Marcus Daily, Thomas
Lawson and others, organized the
Amaigamated company according to
testimony already before the commits
sion. They acquired the stock of Bos-
ton and Montana, Butte and Boston
and other copper producing companies
which were later sold to the new con-
Germ at big increase in price. Mr..
Untermyer wanted the details of this
deal from the Standard Oil magnate
himself.
Other testimony before the commit
tee showed that in 1907 the United
Metals selling company controlled by
Mr. Rockefeller and Mr.. Rogers
which handled for the producers about
sixty per cent of the country's copper
output, held back the bulk of the pro-
duct from sale maintaining the price of
the metal at % cents a pound Mean
time on the stock exchange dealings in
were active at high
prices In October the metal was re-
and Ama1gamated stock in a falling
market dropped to AZ.
The rela ton between the Corner of
the United Metals selling company and
the vigorous campaign in AmaIga-
mated in the stock market was what
Mr.. 4Untermeyer wanted to get from
Mr.. Rockefeller.
From Brunswick Mr.. Untermyer will
continue south to Palm Beach, where
he will spend two weeks framing his
report on the money trust investiga-
ton The report will probably reach
Washington during the last of the
present session of congress. Before
then, however, there will be a meet
ing of the committee and a statistician
will develop further from the evidence,
Mr. Untermyer's chart purporting to
show control by New York, Boston and
concerns through interlocking
directors.
After an examination of scarcely IL
minutes by Samuel Untermyer for the
Pujo commission, William Rockefeller
this afternoon showed signs of a
spasm and indications of an
nervous collapse. At the
insistence of his physician the ex-
animation was discontinued.