| Los Angeles, Aug. 28.—(AP)—2id-
ward L. Doheny and directors of the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans-
port company, today faced a bill of
complaint demanding an accounting of
$10,000,000 stockholders allege they
lost in the fradulent lease of the Elk
(Hills Nava! Oil Reserve.

‘The complaint, filed in behalf of
Prank H. Kunkel, Cineinnati, and oth-
er shareholders, declares the loss re-
‘sulted from the cancellation of the
lease by a decision of the United
|States supreme court after the com.
/pany had spent several million dollar:
‘in the development of the field.

| The lease was negotiated for thi
'government by Albert B. Fall, ther
‘secretary of the interior.

The $100,000 delivered to Tall by FE
'I., Doheny, Jr., in the much discussec
little black satchel,” was declared ii
the suit to have been given by th
stockholders and used as a bribe. Al
accounting of his exchange also i
asked,

Kunkel sets forth in the complain
that neither he nor-any of the plain
tiff stockholders had anv knowledge o
the negotiations and describes Dohe
ry’s conduct of the deal as a “frau
not only against the United State
but also against the Pan- Americat
;company and its stockholders.” Do
iheny is charged with dominating th
| niintyuneiste come y when the leas
was signed.

 

 
 
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.

   
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
 