Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-10-29
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 1921

to meet the draft.
Everhart returned home on May
29, the evidence is, and on that DAY
deposited $230,5O0 in liberty bonds in
safety deposit box in The First
National bank at Pueblo, carried Ill
| Falls name. Later the prosecution
contends that the bonds were divided
up and 100000 were used to pay OH
debts Of EverhartS Fall and the Tres
Ritos company.
Switching the scene suddenly back
| to New York, government counsel
read into the record the testimony
given at the Cheyenne trial by the
late A. E. Humphreys, OF Denver,
/ concerning conferences held at the
! Vanderbilt hotel and elsewhere, which
! eliminated in Sinclair and RoperC
/ w. Stewart, chairman o. the board
of the Standard Oil of Indiana, and
James E. O'Neil, president OF Prairie
Oil and Gas company, guaranteeing
performance of a contract by the
! Continental company to purchase
&c. .333 1893 barrels Of oil from Hum
phrey's companies at $1.50 q barrel.
Former Senator Charles S. THOMAS,
of Colorado. who was counsel Tor
| Humphreys in those negotiations, also
told the jury about them in some
detail His testimony had not been
/ completed when Justice Siddons ad-
iollrned court until Monday after
counsel had engaged in q heated con-
! troyersy as to whether Thomas could
tell the jury about the contents OF
the first skeleton" draft of the guar
antee contract which he dictated.
Humphreys in November, 1921, ar
ranged for the sale OF his Oil with
Harry M Blackmer, chairman OF the
board of the Midwest Refining COM
pany, a subsidiary of the Standard
of Indiana. who refused to respond
| to a subpoena to testify in this case
after American agents abroad finally
had succeeded in locating him IN
j Paris.
Stewart, Blackmer, O'Neil, Sinclair
Osler and Beman Dawes, president OF
the P,lrc Oil company, ana prother
of Vice President Dawes, were brought
| into the conferences as they pro-
ceeded.
Thomas testifined that Dawes had
bought "a per cent of Humphreys
companies, and objected to the sale
OF more than so per cent OF the pro-
ducticn of Humphreys wells because
/ ne already had made commitments
| for 10000 barrels daily. The evidence
showed that finally Humphreys was
| told by Blackmer that the Contin-
entail Trading company would become
| the vendee of the oil, which sub
seuuentlys went to the Prairie OH
and Gas company and the Sinclair
Crude Oil Purchasing company. The
Continental company was unknown to
Humphreys and he interposed some
objection. gLi8
Thomas told the, jury that O.Neil
said he would guarantee the per-
Torrance Of the contract and, after
ONeil and Sinclair had conferred,
Sinclair agreed to do likewise. He
added that Stewart had little TO say
during the negotiations.
Besides theIi guarantee contract.
| Thomas explained there was second
contract, under which the Prairie and
Sinclair companies were to get so
per cent of all production of Hum
/ phreys wells, existing or subsequently
drilled, after the first contract had
been executedd
When court convened, there was
a tense air of expectancy since JUS
! tice Siddons was to rule upon the
most important question presented 20
him since the trial opened on October
IT. The crowd was the largest that
has been on hand at any day, anu
long luine Of would be spectators
stood outside the door.
! gHoI1T1cnI Vxyoyo a ron,p1octoI I1xy tho
court to present more authorities
and argument and the jury again
| was excused while this was in pro-
greSS. After more than an hour JUS
tice Siddons held that Everhart's
constitutional guarantees must and
would be protected by him, and
ruled that he need not answer the
question put late yesterday as to the
source of the $23O,5OO in bonds.
The jury filed back into the
room, and Everhart again took the
stand quite a different man from
what he appeared before ne was
assured that he need not give tes-
timony which in his Judgment
might incrirninate him, or in any
way link him with the conspiracy
case on trial.
When quiet was obtained, Roberts
approached Everhart with the
stock book of the Tres RitoS Cattle
& Land Co., and began questioning
him about handwriting on the stub,
st decline to answer" Everhart
said.
! "I think the question should be
answered" said Justice Siddons and
Everhart said the handwriting was
that of Fall.
"Will you state for whom you
are trustee for the 33 shares OF
stock I have, shown you?" was the
next question.
st decline to answer" Everhart
said.
"On what grounds?"
"On the ground that it might
incriminate me-"
Justice Siddons ruled he did not
have to answer.
do you know of any loan by
Harry F. Sinclair to the Tres RitoS