Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — PIERCE MUST GO TO TEXAS [ARTICLE]

PIERCE MUST GO TO TEXAS

Oil Man Whom the Lone Star State Wants for Violation of Its Anti-Trust Laws. St. Louis. Oct. 20. —H. Clay Pierce, chairman of the Waters-Pierce Oil Co., whose court fight to prevent extraditiontoTexas on a charge of violation of the anti-trust laws of that state was lost in the supreme court of the United States yesterday, is at New York. The case against Pierce comes from Travis county, Texas. The offence of which he is aecussed is punishable by a term of from two to five years in the penitentiary. In deckling against Pierce. Judge Adams, of the United States circuit court of appeals, from which tribunal the case was taken to Washington, declared that “technicalities must not be permitted to stand against an Indictment when It contains the substance of a charge.”