Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-06-03
EXPERTS TESTIFY
IN BIC OIL CASE
CHEMISTS FROM KANSAS CITY
TESTIFY AS 10 INk
ANALYSIS.
RECEIVERSHIP IS DENIED
Poe Refuses tO Disturb Iunlnnd in
Possession Of Goldic Ricketts,
Lease.

T"o chemists from Kansas CIV.
both experts on handwriting ycstcr-
day testified In the district court that
tho handwriting on four receipts.
datnd back 1888 far as 1910. were all
written by the same hand. at the
same time, not NOR, thun five
months ago. Az result Cutler and
llc Loe, oil operators, were refused
appointment Of n receiver to Operate
the rich doldie Ricketts, lease near
lilNby and have virtually lost all
their claims to the lease.
Thls waH the decision OF District
Judge j.. VI. Poe late yesterday af-
tcInuon after an entire day In court
that was filed with sensational
charges Of perjury conspiracy and
worse.
Property Worth $4,000.
The property In question which
contains l6O acres and several pro-
ducing wells II estimated to be
worth $4,000 II has been in Iiu-
cation for the past two or three
years
Cutler ana be Loe had the original
lease and three years ago they drill
ed a dry hole. Then Bob Ricketts,,
the guardian Of Goldlo Ricketts,. Is
sued Il new lease TO Tom Lonland
and othsrs
Last summer Loffland. through his
attorneys kates and Brown filed a
suit against Cutler and DcLoe to
cancel the interest they claimed I'm
the property In the meantime sev-
clal good wells had been drilled on
the property by Loffland.
Cutler and DeLoe, however, still
claimed that they owned the lease
ANA at hrst set up that the fact that
they had drilled dry hole. contn-
ued their lease in force and effect
Contention ONerrulcd.
This contention was overruled and
then the defendants filed cross pc
uuou asking the appointment Of
receiver to operate the property, con
tending that they had paid the rent
ais for the past three years and pro
duccd purportcd receipts to this cf-
feet.
These receipts were produced last
Thursday, dated for 1911. 1912 and
1913.
Saturday night Attorney Kates for
the Loffand interests, went to kan
sas city. taking with him samples Of
ink from the 81. Regis hotel in Tulsa
whore Bob Ricketts. II, guardian Of
Goldie Ricketts,. and who signed the
alleged receipts for rentals had been
staying.
He took the receipts together with
the ink to Professor j. IL. Southwel,
vice president of the Kansas city
Pharmaceutical college and Or A. g.
Lyon, Of the Kansas city testing lab
oratories, both well known chemists
for analysis.
Sworc They Paid Rental.
Yesterday when the trial Of the
case was resumed, Cutler and DcLoe
both testified that they had paid tho
rentals and that the receipts were
given them at the time the money
was paid.
The plaintiff then placed the two
chemists on the stand and they tcsti-
fled that the receipts had all been
written at the same time and not
more than five months ago.
peIoe also testified that on April
u. 1911. he paid Ricketts, the $16O
rentals for that year and that ne
lacked $40 Of the amount and went
TO the First National bank or the
Exchange National and got that
amount The books Of the bank
failed To show any such transaction.
Attorney Wddison in his final ar
Eumcnt to the court yesterday made
a bitter attack on the testimony of
the experts from Kansas city. calling
one Of them "senle demcntia" ana
the other exaggerated ego"
Plead for Justice
Eoh Katcs and Brown I'm their
arguments pleaded with the court to
deal out justice 10 what they termed
the "couspirators and perjurers in
this case"
Judge Poe. however. declined e.
commit himself I'm his findings as t.
whether he thought any perjury had
been committed. aud while he said
that several things I'm the case look
ed queer TO say the least" he conhu-
ed himself to slight review Of the
evidence and refused to grant the re
coivcrship asked for by the defend
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