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Show court, that Day & Co. contracted to buy the control for the giant company, but officers of the American company testified that they did not exercise their option and that Day & Co. .soli the stock to some one else they know not to whom. The western lawyers expect to prove that Day & Co. sold to J. P. Morgan & Co and that Morgan & JCo. ato holding tho shares for the Arnoric&u Telephone & Telegraph company. In this connection J. P. Morgan la expected ex-pected Ui be a rnosf important witness wit-ness in a day or two. He has consented con-sented to appear. PROVING THERE IS A GIANT TELEPHONE COMBINE New York Feb. 10. Lawyers from Cleveland. Toledo, Indianapolis. St. Louis and other cities, who are here In the Interests of the minority stockholders stock-holders of the United States Telephone Tele-phone companv. tho Cuyahoga Telephone Tele-phone companv. and other supposedly Independent companies in the middle west, expected today t" prove that R. L. Da & compnny. the Now York bankers sold the control oi those companies to interests allied with tho American T.d.-phone Telegraph companv. Thev proved yesterday. In the deposition 'taken from the Ohio J |