Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-03-22


 Patents of the House of Representa- tIveS. MF. Kay was employed in MT. Odteld's office during the time of my employment there, excepting for a while. i'll 1913, when he resigned his position with MT. Oldfeld and as clerk 70 the Committee on Patents and ac- cepted a position as private secretary to the Commissioner of Patents. Af- ter MT. Kay left MT. Oldfield's office, Mir. Oldfeld made overtures which caused MT. Kay's return, so I was told by both MT Oldfeld and MT Kay. l think Mr. Kay returned to MT. Old fields office from the office of the Commissioner of Patents some time ill January, 1914.
 was employed in Mr Oldfeld's of flee during July and August, 1914 On Saturday, August l, 1914, 1 heard MT. Oidfield call MT. Kay into his room. II thought nothing of this circum stance, as it occurred many times daily, but on this particular occasion my attention was drawn to a conVer- sation between MT Kay and MT. Old field as l started to pass the door of the room, and l heard MT. Oldfleld say to MT. Kay that Gordon Lee, il mem Der of Congress from Georgia. had giy- en him (Mr. Oldfield) some sum of money in the thousands of dollars with which to perform some obliga tion or operation in connection with the New York Cotton Exchange. heard Mir. Oldfield tell MT. Kay the sum of money involved, but do not hp was. 1 know that it was in the thou sands of dollars. l remember the date of the circumstance because of it's being on the eve of the breaking out of the European war and the clos ing of the New York Cotton Exchange. 1 saw MT. Gordon Lee in MT. Old fields office in the morning before heard Mir Oldfield talk to MT. Kay about the money which he stated MT. Lee had given him, for some purpose connected with the New York Cotton Exchange. 1 personally know that Mir. Oldfieid was interested in cotton. saw reports of some kind of cotton transactions come through the mail tc Mir. Oldfield from some cotton broker age firm every week or so, or proba- bly more often, some prior to the date of the conversation l heard about the money Mir. Gordon Lee gave MT. Old field. MT. Kay told me these were re- ports of cotton transactions of MT. Oldfeld. Sometimes I would open them when they would arrive in the mail, and sometimes Mf. k,lys would open them; it depended on which of us opened the mail at the time of their arrival I read some of them, and noticed that they represented cotton, but 1 did not understand them and paid no particular attention to them. MT. Oldfeld and Mr. Kay would talk about them, and MT. Old field would daily request MT Kay tC telephone and find out what the mar ket was. Sometimes he would ask MT Kay two or three times a day to ascertain the price of cotton. MT Kay would telephone as requested and report to MT. Oldfield. These trans actions were made through firm by the name of N.. L. Carpenter & Co.,, so il appeared by the reports 1 saw. They were always addressed to MT Oldfield and had no other name on them, either on the envelope in which they came or on the reports them selves. I heard MT. Oldfield say to Mir Kay when he was talking to him about the money MT Gordon Lee gave him that he would have to go to New York tomorrow, Sunday, and asked MT. Kay about getting reservations for him on the train. l heard MT. Kay telephone to the Pullman office for | reservations for MT. Oldfield to New York, for a certain train leaving Washington the next day. l remem- Der that MT. Oldfield went to New l York, and soon after he came back he | told me about seeing man by the
 name of John Hill, who was in the cotton business in New York, and who | had been raised in Arkansas. MT. | Oldfield printed in the papers in l Washington a piece MT. Hill had ] written referring to the closing of the | New York Cotton Exchange and the 1 failure of the firm there with which l he had long been associated. MT. Old field said that MT. Hill was market
 expert and that he had known him q l good many years.
 (Signed) Elsie Hunt.
 United States of America, District 1 of Columbia.
 I, Elsie Hunt, do hereby state on 1 my oath that the assertions herein
 made by me are true, and that l l know of my own personal knowledge 1 that they are true.
 l (Signed) Elsie Hunt. Subscribed and sworn to before me 1 this 10th day of March, 1916. l (SeaD Rose M. Sefton, l Notary Public in and for the District of Columbia.
 My commission will expire Septem-
 Der ,, 1916.
 MT. Oldield now says Miss Hunt is l not worthy of belief. But two months l ago MT. Oldfeld said of this witness as follows:
 Washington D. C., Jan. II, 1916. To Whom It May Concern:
 It gives me much pleasure to say that the bearer, Miss Elsie Hunt was
 in my employ from about January l Il 1912, to December l, 1915. and that
 regard her as an exceptionally etti cient, reliable and trustworthy young 1 G