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Show CHIMIN PUJD COMPELLED TO ABM QUIZ William Rockefeller Collapses Before He Is Able to Answer Ans-wer Single Question Regarding Re-garding Copper Deal. MILLIONAIRE -IS IN SHADOW OF DEATH Friends and Relatives Fear a Crisis Is at Hand; Sons and Daughter Take Up Abode on Jekyll Island. Iv Intermit ionnl News Service. JBKYIjL ISLAND. Ga., Fob. 7. The shadow of death today came between William Rockefclior and the Pnjo money trust investigators. investi-gators. Face to face with tho oil magnate, brothor of John D. Rockefeller, after a pursuit that lasted over a year, Chairman Chair-man Pujo aud Samuel Untermyer, counsel coun-sel to tho committee, wero compelled to abandon a victory which was in their grasp through the very grave danger that the long-sought witness might die under tho pressure of cross-examination. cross-examination. Submitting to tho .-jurisdiction, of tho committee. Mr. Rockefeller received Chairman Pu.jo and Mr. Untcrmyor In tho library of his apartments hero. Ho was practically voiceless. With Dr. Chappoll at bin side, however, the examination ex-amination was bogun after tho man who is declared to bo richer even than his famous brother had lifted a palsied hand to subscribe to tho oath. Magnate Collapses. j - Bui. .twelve .minutes- elapsed. Mr. TJutormyer had been able to ask but a singlo questoii germauo to tho investigation in-vestigation wheu tho witness wan attacked at-tacked by a violeut lit of coughing. His whole frame trembled'; ho became absolutely speechless. The blood rushed to his face, which turned purple and crimson. To all who looked on it scorned evident that a crisis was at hand. Dr. Chappdi hastily administered adminis-tered an opiate, under which Mr. Rockefeller Rocke-feller partly revived, but before the examination could be resumed, the doctor doc-tor interposed: "I Ktrougly urge you not to pro-cccd." pro-cccd." ho said, "as in doing so you (Continued on page Threo.) dill PUJO !S yiBLEJPICEEfl (Coutinued from Page One.) are endangering his life at. the present moment.'' Chairman Pujo and Mr. Untennyer exchanged hast gjane.es. By this lime Mr. Boekefollcr had fallen back into his chair in a. state of almost complele collapse. Dr. ChappoH was sworn and, amid dncrp silence, while every eve was riveted upon the witness patient, he solemnly swore that a continuation of tho examination which had brought Mr. Rockefeller to a vergo of a spasm of the larynx might choke him lo j death. ! Patient Fears Death. j The patient wan uppealed to. and, whispering whis-pering feebly into the oar of the official I f tenofrrapher. he declnrnd that he felt in j kucIi a condition that he thounht It mi- pafo to proceed further. It waj? the end-1 Chairman Pujo declared the examination ! terminated. Whatever information William Wil-liam Jlockofeller could have Imparted will romalri stalwj ,Jn his own mind. The copper deal will lio burled in lhj tni-Bavorv tni-Bavorv paat. It is not loo much lo say, even, "tout William Rockefeller has passed from the Mold of active life. A nrw and serioiiH development has occurred oc-curred In the oil ma'natu'p throat, Dr. Chappcll declared today. Though Mr. Rockefeller Ih apparently In pood physical physi-cal condition otherwise, thir are evidences evi-dences on all sldco that his relatives and friends ffar a crlnls. Dr. Chappcll 1m remaining re-maining at akyll Island u bo close to his patient. The two miii of Air. Rockefeller Rocke-feller "are here and Mrs. .McAlpin, his daughter, arrived today. On the Island It Is reported that ho never takes more exrrclne than a. walk from his npartmonts to tins boat landing and back, a mattor of 100 yards. He Is 72 years old. Inquiry Abandoned. In t.h circumstance" Chairman Pujo and Sir. Unterniycr do not hellevo they would "oo JUKtlflcd in press! mr Mr. Ropko-fuller Ropko-fuller any further. Mr. Pujo na!d today that iho testimony which could havn hn secured from the wltnns wsu UirKuly of a cumulative character. nd since the jurisdiction and authority of hla committee commit-tee and. Incidentally. r the coiigmna of tho United Status, had bfn recognized, the chief end of the dursult of Mr. Rockefeller Rocke-feller had been achieved. "I do not think in the future thern rlll bo any difficulty In savrlns -or Ic- of subpoenas of congress on anyonn whofl toBtlmony is needed, ho id, sIk- n,Followi'ni; the dipmnllc termination of tho examination which also ends he tBkhiB of testimony In tho money Inquiry, In-quiry, Chairman Pujo Issued thft following follow-ing official statement! 1 lr i Hockcfcller.H condition j. Mmply mtlablo. Ho not only shakos nice a- leaf a 1 ovr hl.H body, hut after tho f rat Question he to conch convnlslvol a a It vra evident he was laboring under Kreat excitement ondthat h? was on t o veruc of collapse. He had to slowly whlBpor the few words ho poke Into the of the alenoKranUer. win. sat bndde him. This he did with the greatest difficulty. diffi-culty. Dangerous and Inhuman. "Such a thins m examination would bft impossible. Au soon aa Dr. Cliappoll lntcn-cned and renueated that the hoar-!nc hoar-!nc proceed no further on the ground mated by him, Mr- bntcrmyor fcU that It would ho dangerous and Inhuman to r,o further mid I thereupon oroered tho mispeiiKloii' of the examination. .Mr. ITntermyer also made, a statement, which wa iui followa. "Even if Di. C'hnppcll hail not Intervened Inter-vened and prevented fiuthi'i' examination, examina-tion, I would hav' rcfuied to proceed of my own accord. "N'othJnt; would iuivn induced m lo assume Ktih a responsibility. In view of what we know uf tho character of tho dliiea.-ie from tho commlttec'i phyolclan, Dr. RIchard5on, as well as from Dr. Chappell, and particularly from wla.t I saw "If anything' had happened to .Mr. Rockefeller during that apa3m of coukIi-lnp coukIi-lnp I would never havo rorclven myself. If we had believed hl condition to be 30 manifestly orltlcal, wo would not luivo dreamed of making tho attempt." |