Show APPARENT EffORT EFFORT J TO 10 SECRETE BOORS BOOKS oi Of MINING StocKholder Charges Great Western Gold Co With Questionable Acts ST. ST LOUIS Nov Two I 1 Two da days s 's after receivership proceedings were Instituted Institute against the tho After AfterThought Thought Copper company company com coin pany and its ts parent parent- tho the Great Western Vestern Gold company tJ the o directors of or the concerns concerns con con- cerns earns voted that their bool books s and records s should be removed at once from St. St Louis to Indianapolis according to testimony at al tho hearing before Special CommisSioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Joseph A. A Wright Wright which was re resumed re- re today Thomas S. S Henderson vice president of tho the company compan it was said took the books accompanied h by other officers and gave them to a hotel porter who was Instructed to ship tem to Indianapolis Henderson testified that he lie supposed tho the books were wore at Indianapolis where the company opened offices a 0 month ago Tho The receivership was brought by john C. C Grafting who ho alleged he paid 30 O for shares of stoc stock Ills His petition alleged he never received a dividend and was assessed Hc a share He refused to pay the assessment Henderson testified that the Great i Western Gold GollI was organized org in 1901 1301 with a capital stock of none of ot which was ever paid Stock to the value of or had been sold to persons ho sal said but no dividend was ever over paid and the tho companies are now In debt 1 F. F T Tennyson of Ne New York was the witness who testified about tho the re removal removal re- re moval of the books Neely said he came ame here in September to reorganize tho the corn com panics and negotiate a a. loan Joan His plans were frustrated by Grafting's suit Bult |