Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-01-14
STOLE ARCHBOLD
NOTES; SOLD THEM
FOR $1,000 APIECE
Former Standard Oil
Clerk Tells Story
Of Theft.
DISPOSED OF LETTERS
TO NEW YORK AMERICAN
kilograms and Copy Book Also
Taken and Rented
Out"

WASHINGTON. Jan. 4.-William
w. Winkfeld, of Chicago, formerly
employed by the Standard Oil Com
pany as messenger, today told the
Senate campaign fund investigating
committee how he and another em-
ployee named Stump took from the
desk of John D. Archbold, of the
Standard Oil Company, two letters
and disposed of them for $1,000 each.
He also told Of selling copy of
telegram for $1,000 and loaning two
copy books Of letters for which $500
was paid.
OF the amounts received WINFIELD
said his share was one-third. Wink
field could not recall the contents Of
the two letters or the kilograms, to
whom they were addressed, or the
signatures attached. He said the let
ters were taken in the fall of 1904, and
published by the New York Ameri-
can. He did not know what letters
had been taken from the copybooks.
WINFIELD testihei. N 1904 he was
employed by the Standard oil Com
pany in New York as messenger,
and Stump, he said, was employed as
a file clerk. WINFIELD said that in
sne a''H y 80 ~.r;osa 80 raaarS,,,g -
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"a, e.
..NEor,.,u sa,a - knew Of a tele-
ra :, a,,5 he sa;d he would let MS see
;t,, said w,ntf,eld "a couple Of days
later he showed 4 to us. made a
conv NJ II and mt IL in the hands of
st,mn and he disposed of ii. 1t came
o,,t in the paner on a holiday"
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| WINFIELD said that he did not re>
member what the telegram said and
did not remember to whom it was ad-
dressed or whose signature was at
tached to it.
He then testified substantially as
follows:
81 had nothing more to do with this
until about four months later 1 went
back to the office for my keys and
found Stump there-at Mr.. Arch
holds desk He told me that the
naner told him to get everything he
could GET his hands on. stump was
a. Mr. Arohbold,s desk and had nos
session CO s of some of Mr. Archbold' )
1attars +old hin, tbat he was eoing
further than | knew anything about.
He said: You keep quiet and we'll
fix you up. He was doing business
with his brother-in-law then. He got
the letters and saw the two he got
and read them.
do you know the date of the let
ters, whom they were addressed to
or the signature?" interrupted Sena-
tor Clapp.
mo, don't remember the date,
nor do | remember the signature at
tached. 1t may have been Quay or
some one else. They were letters re-
ceived by Mr.. Archbold."
These two letters were the only
things taken that day, according to
Winkfield. Two days later, Wink
field said, copybook was taken and
was returned by stump next morn
ing.
we were asked II we eouid secure
copies OF letters tnat had passed 70
ana from "ashinstoh anu nau peeh
told that we would DC PAID con-
tinued Wlnkneid.
WHO told you this' asked senator
olapp.
stump sold Letters.
winkfeld replled that he had left
tba matter of disposing of the let
ters atc 70 Stumn and that he was
ta,,,rg M core Of that end. Summing