Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Says Holmes Sold Reports. [ARTICLE]

Says Holmes Sold Reports.

The chief witness against Assistant Statistician Edwin S. Holmes, on trial at Washington for conspiring with F. A. Peck ham and Moees Haas of New York to profit from advance knowledge of gov* eminent crop report*, wa* Louis C. Van Riper, a New York mining stock operator. Van Riper told how he had been introduced to Holmes at Washington by Peck ham and how Holmes then explained hls ability to let out the crop statistic* la advance and bow be had already mad* $55,000 by selUng such Information to Theodore 11. Price, the well-known cotton operator. The witness told further ho n he had subsequently paid Holmes about $52,000 as his share of deals baaed upon information furnished by him. After thla a regular brokerage business was organ* ised, known as Peckham k Mercer, financed by the conspirators, for one of whom, Peckham, a seat on the stock exchange was bought. Witness told wlpre and when profits were divided. Holmes getting his share. *■: