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Show NEGRO MESSENGER IS FOUND AT LAST Chicago, Jan. 9. William W, Wink-tield, Wink-tield, ih nei'ro messenger, who is Bald to have taken the lamous Arch-bold Arch-bold letters" from the Standard Oil company files In ' v. York and soldi them, was found In Chicago last I ttighl after B nation-wide search of beveral months Winkfield was found in a room in a down-town building by a United i State deputy marshal and SetCVed With a subpoena lo testify on Janu-J ary 11, before the senate committee, on privileges and elections lie is wanted by the senate committee to tell just how the letters, which contained con-tained the names of manv men prominent prom-inent in politics, disappeared from the files Willla W winknebi. the formei negro ne-gro employe of the Standard Oil com-pi com-pi w. v. ho ie charged with having assisted as-sisted In the tbefi ol what are known as the Archbold letters which eventually even-tually reached the public through V ililum Randolph Hearst, todaj told his version of Mic affalt He ridiculed a r-pori that $34,000 was paid for the letters ami brought I Into the story a new name, 'hat of P ank Mon ell, n ho he t : i i w at an otflce hoy and file clerk for the oil ! company. Winkfield said that his connection iwith tho letter was partb acciden tal Me causht Morrell and Charles' St timp. he said. In 1!U3 or 1904 taking tak-ing letter copy books from the f'les aftei office hours. Morrell and Stumj), Winkfield declared, de-clared, were so sUrtied that tbey promised to "let him in on the deal"' if he would keep quiet His attorney said that Winkfield accepted this proposal because the Standard Oil company had refused to increase his wages, although he had worked for them for seven years. Winkfield was asked If he had been followed by emissaries of any one concerned in the publication or suppression sup-pression of the letters, but he declined de-clined to answer on advice of his counsel Big Sum for Job a Joke. "Regarding the report that three of us got $34,00", that is a joke." said Winkfield "I don't know how much they got, but If 1 was to have received a third ol that amount 1 did not get it. I don't want to say just how much I did get. but 11 tell the committee. I didn't know the . ature of the letters they were stealin. I knew oulv that they were the copy books. I cannot say whether the letters let-ters published were the on s stolen by Stump and Morrell." Winkfield will leave tonight for Washington to appear before the special spe-cial senate committee Investigating campaign expenditures Saturday |
