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Show JOHN D.'S BROTHER FLEECED. HE SAYS ST. LOUIS, March 12. Frank Rockefeller took the witness stand today to-day in his suit against Henry Cross for the restitution of $265,000 spent for a zinc mine 4 in southwest Missouri. Rockefeller said that he inspected the mine previous to buying it. ''I went down in a shaft,'.' he said, "and my attention was constantly called to bodies of ore. In the center room 6f the mine was a pillar that appeared ap-peared to be practically solid r.ine ore. The walls of the room had the same appearance. ap-pearance. The lights carried by the party made it look like one gerat crystal crys-tal palace. The floor seemed to be of solid ore." |