The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-15
CLERKS R|FLED
ARCHbOLD DESK
Took Two Letters and Disposed
of Them for $1,000
Each
LATER PUBLISHED IN PAPER
Former Standard Oil Employee
Witness Before Senate
Committee.

Washington. January H.-Wm. NJ.
WINFIELD. of Chicago. formerly en-
ploycd by tho Standard Oil Company.
al d messenger. to-day told the Senate
campaign fund Investigating commit
tee how ne and another employee named
Stump took from the desk of John d.
Archbold, of tho Standard OIL Com
pany. two letters and disposed of them
for 81. 900 each.
He also told of selling copy of a
telegram for 81 coo and lending two copy
books OF letters for which $500 was
paid. OF the amounts received Wink
field said he received one-thiTd. Wink
field could not recall the contents of
the two letters or kilograms 10 whom
they were addressed, or the signatures
attached. He said the letters were
taken in the fall of 1904 and published
in the New York American.
WINFIELD testified that in 1904 he was
en- pIoyed by the Standard Oil Company
in New York as a messenger and Stump.
he said. was employed as file clerk
The witness said that in the fall Of
1904 after reading in the New York
American a story regarding certain teie-
grams sent TO some onein Washington,
nc spoke 10 stump and another office
boy named Frank Morrill,. employed
in Mr.. Archbold's office.
Morrill, said he knew of the tele-
said Winlofeid. a couple of days
later he showed it TO US. made a
copy of it and put IL in the hands OF
stump and he disposed OF it, It came
out in tho paper on a holiday
WINFIELD said that he did not re-
member what the telegram said. and
did not remember TO whom IL was ad-
dressed or whose signature was attached
to it.
He then testified subsequently as
follows:
In Archbofd's Desk.
Il had nothing more TO do with this
until four months later. I went back
TO the Office for my keys and found
stump therc-at Mr.. Archbold's desk.
FIc told me that the paper told him to
get everything he could get his hands
on stump was al Mr. Archbold's desk
and had possession of some OF Mr..
ArchbaId's letters. told him that he
was going further than | knew anything
about lie said You keep quiet and
well Ak you Up lie was doing business
with his brot hcr-in-iaw then. Ho got
the letters and saw the two he got and
read them
DO you know tho date OK the letters
whom they we're addressed 20 OF tho
signature interrupted Senator Clspp-
No. do not remember the date nor
do I remember the signature attached.
" may have been Quay OF some one
else. They were letters received by
Mr.. Archboid.'
These two letters were the only
things taken that day. according to
WINFIELD.
Two days later winfield said a copy
book was taken and was returned By
stump the following morning
We were asked n VIC could secure
comics Of letters that had passed 20 and
from Wa-hingfo on. and had been told
that We would be paid. continued
WINFIELD.
who told you thiss" asked senator
Ciapp.
WINFIELD replied that he had LEFT
tho matter Of disposing % the letters.
etc. 20 stump.
what did you receive a. your
share2" asked Senator Clspp.
81 received less than N.Sp.'
At the end Of Wfnkdeids testimony.
Gilchrisf Stewart was recalled 70 be
questioned about This testimony OF
yesterday. No new facts we're DC
vrioucf. The COMMITTEES VII meet
again fN-nno~rur