PROFITS FROM OIL.
INFORMATION REFUSED. FINANCIER ARRESTED. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. Robert Stewart, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company, Indiana, was arrested tonight following upon his second refusal to tell the Senate Oil Committee the disposition of three million dollars, re-sale profits of the extinct Continental Trading Company of Canada, of which the Government alleges Fall received over 230,000 dollars. Proceed-' ings for “contempt” will be in order if following his arraignment to-morrow before Vice-President Dawes, in the Senate, he still declines to answer questions. There have been but few occasions in American history when the Senate has taken on the aspect of a Court of Law, meting out punishment to private citizens. Later.
Robert Stewart has obtained a temporary writ of habeas corpus until February 7, under a bond of 1000 dollars. — A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 58, 6 February 1928, Page 7
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