Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — HEAR HEISTAND CHARGES. [ARTICLE]

HEAR HEISTAND CHARGES.

Witn-wse* TeU . Commit* of Steps Toward Organizing Company. Washington, D. C., telegram: Frank 11. Atterholt of Akron, 0., was the first witness called for the day by the senate military affairs committee in the investigation of charges against Lieut.-Col. Heistand. Mr. Atterholt had arranged a meeting with Clint, Eddie & Co. of New York to be attended by Heistand, Hawkes and himself. Heistand, however, did not attend the meeting and subsequently appeared entirely indifferent as to the whole matte; . He said he did not have another meeting with the interested parties. Major Hawkes endeavored to show that there had been two meetings, but Mr. Atterholt said positively only one had been held. General W. W. Dudley, one of the promoters of the proposed company, and an attorney in the settlement made with Hawkee, described the prelimniary steps taken in the organization of the company. He said that Heistand had mentioned the names of General Corbin, Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn and Assistant Secretary Allen as friends of his who would also go into the company. The stock, he said, was to be apportioned as heretofore explained by other witnesses.