Log Angeles, Cal, Aug. 28—(P}—
Edward L. Doheny and directors of
the Pan-American Petroleum and
Transport company, today faced ao
lnl of complaint demanding an ac-
counting of $10,000,000 stockholders

Ellege they have lost in the fraud-
uient lease of the Elk His nayal
cil reserve.

The complaint, {led in behalf of
frank Ho Kunkel, Cinelnnat!, and
inther shareholders, declared the loss
‘resulted from the caucellation of
| the lease by  deciston of the
Uniled States supreme court after
the company had spent several mil-
llon dollars in the development of
the field. *

The lease was negolleled for the
government by Albert I" Fall, then
aecreinty of the interior.

The $100,000 celivered to Fall by
EH L, Doheny, jr. in the much dls-
cussed “Wittle black satchel” was de-
elared in the suit to have been
inven by the stockholders and used
as & bribe. An necounting of this
exchange also is asked.

Kunkel sets forth in the com-
qualnt thal nelther he nor any of
tha plaintiff stockholders had any
anowledge of the negotinuions and
describes Doheny’s conduct of the
aenl as a “fraud not only against
the Uniled States but also against
{the Pan American company and its
ttockhalders,” Doheny is charged
with dominating the affalrs of the
company when the iease 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.

   
 
 
 
   
 
 
  
 