Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1909 — HEARST ASKS ARREST OF ROCKEFELLER JR. [ARTICLE]

HEARST ASKS ARREST OF ROCKEFELLER JR.

Perjury In Libel Case Charge of Attorney Shearn. New York. Jan. s.—The action tor criminal libel brought on complaint of John R. Rockefeller Jr. against S. S. Carvalho. Bradford -Merrill and E. H. Clark, officers of the Stnr Publishing company, which publishes the New York American, was begun before Magistrate Moss. Rockefeller testified that the article published in the Dec. 17 issue of the American in which he was accused of having caused a system of brocage to be mloptcd by a certain company of Chicago was false. He had not set foot In Chicago, he declared, for nearly two years.

Clarence J. Shearn, attorney for the defendants, submitted a retraction printed on the day following the publication of the original story, as evidence that there was no malicious in--tent. Rockefeller admitted he had sworn that he knew "of his own personal knowledge,” that the defendants were officers of the Star Publishing company when that knowledge had in reality been based simply “upon Infor mation and belief.” Shearn contended that this constituted perjury and applied for a warrant for Rockefeller's arrest.

Assistant District Attorney Garvan protested against the charge being taken seriously, but Shearn Insisted and Magistrate Moss took the matter under advisement.