The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-03

signed statement from Mr.. Rothert
| in which he. denied having made such
an assertion as credited to him by the
Palladium. The interview finally came
to a close when the banker ordered
Purtelle and Fitzgibbons to leave his
home.
! Mr. Rothert was greatly surprised
| today when informed that Purtelle and
/ Fitzgibbons had made representations
that they held a statement signed by
| him in which he refuted in its entirety
, the Palladium's interview with him
yesterday.
/ Rothert Explains.
"The statement l signed. and which
was given to me for my signature. read
that l regretted exceedingly the pub
! lcation of the statement in the Pal
ladium last night, and that l did not
authorize it," said Mr.. ROthert. Il
signed that statement because l be-
! lieved 1t meant that l did not author
iZe the Palladium reporter to publish
, the statement l made to him."
| 1t was then explained to Mr.. Rothert
| that the reporter believed it was un-
derstood between them that his state
ments were to be used to show to the
public the tactics being pursued by
! Purtelle in his stock selling campaign
! in this community. In turn Mr.. Roth
/ ert said that he had been correctly
I quoted. but he regretted the fact that
/ he had to figure in the matter.
. So, with Mr.. Rotherts admission Of
the authenticity of the interview with
him published in The Palladium. the
statement held by Purtelle. which
Rothert signed Friday evening. is not
worth the paper it is written upon il
Purtelle attempts to use it as evi-
dence to refute the charges of illegal
/ stock sales which have been preferred
/ against him with the Indiana Public
Service Commission.
Violates State Law.
AS was published in The Palladium
! yesterday the Indiana Public Service
| Commission law provides against the
| sale of stocks of public utilities at
| discount or for premiums without the
, consent of the commission. This sec
tion of the law has been violated by
| Purtelle
| Confirmation of the charges made
/ by Henry Rothert that Purtelle had
offered for sale and had sold stock Of
| the Richmond & Hamilton Traction
| company of par value of 500 at
! discount of 75 per cent, was obtained
, today from DIR. E. p. Weist, 119 South
Thirteenth street, dentist DR.. Weist
! said that he had given his note for $25
! for one share of the preferred stock
. of the traction company with the un-
derstanding that no effort to realize
! on 1t would be made for sixty DAYS.
and that 1t was to be returned to him
at the end of that time should the
project be abandoned through the re-
fusal of the voters of Wayne township
to vote the 100000 subsidy asked by
the company.
II must say l don't like Mr.. Pur-
! telle's way of doing business" said
Dr. Weist. land l may bring suit to
recover the note gave him."
| Clark on Case.
The secretary of the Indiana Public
Service Commission today. in acknow-
lodging the receipt of evidence to sup
! port the charges made against Purtelle
| of illegal stock sales. stated that Judge
! Clark of the commission would take
! charge of the case personally and that
| it would be thoroughly Investigated to
determine the course of action the
commission would pursue. He repeat
ed the assertion that Purtelle had not
been authorized to sell any stock OF
| his company at a discount He said
! that since the matter had been report
| ed to the commission Purtelle had
| communicated with that body and had
said that his actions in this matter %
far had merely been preliminary"
and that he would appear before the
commission Monday and present q
written statement concerning his &C.
tivities.