HUNTING A MILLIONAIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 22 August 1907, Page 4

HUNTING A MILLIONAIRE.

no\y MR John d. rockefeller WAS OUTWITTED. New York, July 4. The entire country is laughing at the way in which Mr John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world, was outwitted by a process-server yesteday, Mr Rockefeller shuns publicity, and he has spent thousands of pounds during the past few years in evading subpoenas intended to bring him into court to be cross-examine*! regarding the business methods of the Standard Oil Company.

The deputy-marshal who finally succeeded in serving Mr Rockefeller with' the subpoena is regarded as a national nero. The newspapers publish his life history, portraits of his familv, and his impressions of Mr Rockefeller at great length.

Mr Rockefeller must appear before Judge Landis, of the Federal Court, at Chicago, to morrow and Saturday to undergo examination by the lawyers who are fighting the Standard Oil Trust The attorneys for the Standard Oil Company made a last attempt to compromise with the Government vesterday, promising thai they would furnish the information required—whether or not the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey_ owns the Standard Oil Company iof Indiana—if Hie (Jowrnnipnt withdraw their process servers from the pursuit of Mr Rockefeller and leave him in peace. The Public Prosecutor refused, howjever. and the chase proceeded. Two detectives called at the country residence of Mr Parmelee Prentice, Mr Rockefeller's son-in-law, near Pittsfield Massachusetts, where the millionaire' was supposed to be hiding. Mr Prentice received them jocularly, and offered to give them £2OOO if they could discover his father-in-law on the premises.

The detectives departed apparently crestfallen. A few minutes later Mr Rockefeller came out of the house and sat down on the porch. He had hardly done so, however, when another official, who is 6ft 3in in height and broad in proportion, appeared unexpectedly, and before the discomfited millionaire could escape thrust the subpoena into his hand.

Mr Rockefeller read it carelessly, and said with a forced smile, "I see you are not a man to be avoided." He then invited the process server to sit down and smoke a cigar. The process erver,-says -Mr Rockefeller, is a "fine fellow."