AMERICAN OIL SCANDALS
OIL CO. DIRECTOR ARRESTED. ALLEGED CONTEMPT OF COURT. WASHINGTON, February IMr Robert Stewart, chairm'-i ; i of the board of directors of the afcd Oil Compa-ny of Indiana, was arrested to-wight following upon his ■second refusal to tell the Senate. Oil Committee the disposition of 3,000,000 dollars reside profits of the extinct Cointinental Trading Company of Canada, of which the Government alleges ex-Senator Fldl received .'owr '230,000 dollars. -Proceedings for "contempt", will be in orclec if, following his arraignment before vice-president Daws Sn-'^he''Senate. Mr Stewart still declines to answer questions. There have "teen but few occasions in American history whan the 'Sena-w hiti taken on the aspect of a court of law meeting out punishment to' private qjtiehs< . ; -Stewart has Obtained a temporary 'writ of hfibeas corpus until February 7 under a bond of 1000 dollars.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 6 February 1928, Page 5
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