By Associated Praga.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28.—Edward
j La. Dohney and directors of the Pan
i American Petroleum and Transport
feompany, today faced a bill of com-
laine demanding an accouating of
; $10,000,000 stockholders allege they
‘toast inthe friudulent lease of the Eik
(HIG naval oil reserve.
i fhe complaint, filed in behalf of
| Frank TM. Kunkel, Cincinnati, and
other sharehulders, declares the loss
fresulted from the cancelation of the
lease by ai decision of the United
nlates supreme court after the eam-
pany had gpent several million dollars
‘in the devciopment of the field.
| The lease was negotiated for the
i government by Albert B. Fail, then
i secretary of the interior. .
; The $100,000 delivered to. Fall: by
/ BE. T. Dohney, Jr. in the mueh dis-
cussed “little black satchel” was de-
pelared in the suit to have been the
righitul property of the stockholders
Pand used asa bribe. ;
Kunkel in the complaint describes
| Dohney'’s conduct ef the dealas a
“fraud not only against the United
States but alsa against the Pan
(American company and its stock-
| holders.” :
~The complaint further declares that
“Dohney has disposed of his controll-
‘ing interert in the. company. tothe
Pan Anierionn Eastern Petroleum
company which is alleged to be con.
trolled naw by the Standard Oil com-
sony af indiang, :
The suit demands that Dohney per-
sonally-bo gompelled to reimbuse the
-Btockholdergs for the. alleged losses,
~» Dohney refuied to comment on the
conplaint, declaring he would: submit
it te his attorneys before making any
ceine rae : :

 

 

     

 

 

     
 
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.—(4)—
A bill of complaint, demanding an
accounting of $10,000,000, Was filed
tn the U. S. district court today
against Edward L. Doheny and the
Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport company. The  obill,
which charges that stockholders of
the company jost their sum through
alleged fraud on the part of Doheny
wal the beget Elk dar pe acan-

was y wy a shi ,
aw ‘firm on Sar oven
Kunkel, attorney, of Cincinnati,
who brought the evit tn the tnter-
ests of himself and other stock-
holders.

The bili declares that the
$10,000,000 was lost by the stock-
holders solely because Doheny act-
ed fraudulently in connection with
the leasing from former Secretary
of the Interior Albert B. Fall of the
Elk Hills paval oli reserve, and
through large eums spent in de-
velopment of the fields themselves,
and elsewhere in connection with
the deal. It demands that an ac-
counting be made by Doheny and
that such money as was expended
in the alleged giving of a $100,000
bribe to Fall, and in the develop-
ment of the fraudulently leased
fields, be returned to the stock-
holders.

The complaint declares _ that
neither Kunkel nor the other stock-
holders had any hand in the al-
leged fraud whereby the money
was lost.

   
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
 