Shipment of Huge Sum in Box to Shanghai Los Angeles, Mar, 21.
'A report that 8. C. Lewis, presid~ ent of the collapsed $100,000,000 Julian Oil Ca,, shipped "a vast sum" to Shanghai' on the. steamship} President Harrison shortly. atter the debacle of his concern was being] checked "to-day by the District Attorney's office which recently} revived investigation of the case.
'The Julian Oil Ca. fell to pieces in May of 1927 and Mr. Lewis' shipment ig supposed to have occurred soon afterward.
Officials connected with the management of the steamship at the time of the alleged shipment are investigations have failed to reveal any trace of some $35,000,000 of the Johan tunds. Officials of tthe company said to-day that they had received the "tip" on the alleged shipment by Mr. Lewis from a ship employee who peeped into a trunk and saw that it was loaded with ills, Federal authorities are said to possess information concerning the trunk and money.
Early trials failed to result in a conviction of Mr; Lewis, but subsequent trial on rge of bribery resulted in conviction and imprisonment of Asa Keyes, District Attorney, on an allegation that he had accepted money.
Recently a multitude of new changes appeared in this connection, involving jury bribery.
Hundreds of civil and criminal suits followed the collapse of the! Julian Oil Ca,, but the Mrs, Lewis went to Shanghai about the time of the alleged appearance of the missing mor investigation has disclosed.
Charles Long, passenger agent for the United States Lines, is schedule ed to arrive hero to-morrow to con-for with local authorities regarding. funds missing in the Julian Oil Ca. debacle on which new evidence ha: Just been uncovered, it was learned Mr. Long was chief steward the steamship President Harrison in 1927 and it has doen ascertained that he remembers a trip taken to the Far East on this ship by Mrs. S.C, Lewis, wife of the president of the company, about the time of the crash of the concern.
'Despite conflicting reports con corning the identity of the ship and a belief earlier today that Mrs. Lewis sailed on a vessel called the Benjamin Harrison, Mr. Long's testimony is taken' as conclusive evidence that Mrs. Lewis travelled fon the President Harrison. The local District Attorney admitted, however, that he is in a state of confusion over the mass of material which has suddenly poured in upon him, and he expects to spend several days in untangling it.
The trip of Mrs. Lewis is believed to have connection with the mysterious disappearance of $35,000,000 in funds of the Julian Oil Ca, It is believed in some quarters that, shi took the money to Shanghai ins frum Mar, 22.
Mr. Huron Fitts, local district attorney, announced to-day that he had obtained a mass of documents which he believed reveal the final resting-place: of millions of Aollars of the Julian Oil Ca. money.
He was also of the opinion that the evidence involved many more prominent persons in the collapse which followed heavy sale and overissue of Julian Oil Ca stock, which ruled off the Los Angeles Exchange on May 6, 1927.
If large sums of money were sent to Shanghai as reported, Mr. Fitts said, this was evidently done when the sale of the over-issue began, months before the crash—United Press.
Traced to Majestic Hotel Seattle, Mar. 22.
Former Shanghai residents - here said to-day that Mrs. S.C. Lawis left Seattle on October 19, 1926.
She spent a month in Japan and later proceeded to Shanghai. During the month of December she! lived at the Majestic Hotel, paying. $100 a day for luxurious quarters, they goid. She had the "Embassy Suite"
ed from Shanghai on' the President Harrison to continue a round-the-world trip which included stops for brief periods at Hongkong and Manila—United Press.
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