Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-02-07
ROCKEFELLER IS
BES|EGED ON
ISLAND
AGED FINANCIER IS SURROUNDED
BY OFFICIALS AND CLERKS, WHO
SEEK TO WREST FROM HIM The
SECRETS or HIS CAREER

Brunswick, Ga. Feb THE gov
eminent money trust inquisitors came
tN Brunswick today to attempt to
wrest from the aged William Rookie.
feller's lips the secrets of his financial
career as the active agent of the So
called Standard Oil group of bankers.
Representative Arsenep Pujo, chair.
man of the house money trust COM
mittee, and Samuel Untermyer, the
committees lawyer, with a retinue Of
clerks, came with the direct authority
of the Investigating committee to hear
the 72 year old witness in his refuge,
Jekyl Island.
Three incidents in the financial ca
reer of Mr.. Rockefeller were the OBJ
jcct of the long chase that ended in
today's visit, Mr.. Untermyer wanted
to get into the record the history OF
the so-called 'frenzied finance organ
ization Of the AmaIgamated Copper
company in 1901, and the romance OF
the transactions in Amalgamated
stock in 1906 and 1907, when the Sc
curities, after dizzy climb to about
12O points, dropped to AZ,
William Rockefeller. with the late
II. II. Rogers, Marcus DAILY, Thomas
Lawson and others, organized the
company, according to
testimony already before the commit.
tee acquiring the stock Of the Boston
& Montana, Butte q Boston and other
copper producing companies which
were later sold to the new concern at
9 big increase in price.
Mr.. untermyer wanted the details
u this deal from the Standard Oil
= asnate himself,
Other testimony before the commit
ee showed that in 1907 the United
Metals Selling company, controlled by
Nr. Rockefeller and Mr.. Rogers,
which handled for the producers
lbout 60 per cent of the countrys
copper production, held back the bulk
y the product from sale, maintang
he price Of the metal at % cents
,ound
Meantime, on the stock exchange
We 'dI ntSu pIIces. III UUtUuur, pn~--
iletal was released, the price dropped
o IS cents and Amalgamated stock.
n a falling market, dropped to AZ.
The relation between the "corner"
!. the United Metals Selling COM
,any and the vigorous campaign in
stock is what Inter
nyer wanted to get from Rockefeller.
OIL MAGNATE is ILL.
Jekyl Island, Feb AFTER an ex-
mination of scarcely twelve minutes
~ Samuel Untermyer, counsel for
he P,,jp committee, William Rookie
eller, the aged Standard Oil magnate,
his afternoon showed signs of
aryngeal spasm and indications of an
approaching nervous collapse. At the
nsistence of his physician the exam.
nation was discontinued.
Chairman Pujo, Counsel Untermyer
md their following OF secretaries and
men, were taken to Jekyl
aland by launch of the Jekyl Island
club after their arrivel here after
} series of railroad delays. 1t was
that the examination of
Mr.. Rockefeller would be private and
That the newspaper men would not be
represented.
When Representative Pujo and Mr..
Jntermyer arrived to examine Mr..
2ockefeller, they Immediately went
nto conference with his counsel and
physician. The party, ac-
only by the official secre-
ary and stenographer, were taken to
he Rockefeller's apartment where
he examination was held behind clos
ID doors.
Jekyl Island, Feb. with Repre-
sentative Pujo sitting as chairman,
he examination began with Mr.. Rock
,feller seeming in good physical con-
lition but after a few questions he
,asped and his throat seemed to
lose and his voice trailed off into
choked whisper. With a bound, DR..
appel was at his side and the en-
was ended DIR. Cappell
vas sworn and testified that his pa
lent was unable to proceed. The ex-
ended abruptly. Mr.. Pujo
ater gave out the following state
1ent
Mr.. RoCkefellers condition is SIM
ly pitiable. He not only shakes like
leaf all over his body, but after the
rst question he began to cough con-
and it was evident that he
vas laboring under great excitement
nd on the verge of collapse. He had
0 slowly whisper the few words he
poke into the ear of the stenogra-
her who sat beside him. This he did
With the greatest difficulty. Such a
hing as an examination would be i'm.
ossible. As 500 mas DR.. Cappell in
ervened ard requested that the hear
ng proceed no further, Mr. Inter.
aver felt that it would be dangerous
nd inhuman to go on"