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...worth of stock of the American Metal Co., seized during the War, back to the Merton family original owners (TIME, Sept. 13 et seq.) entered its fourth week the Government concluded its case. The crux of testimony offered was that brought out by U.S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner, who traced $40,000 worth of bonds given by Herr Merton to the late John T King to the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, of which Mal S. Daugherty, the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General's brother, is president. Mr. Buckner then offered evidence that these bonds...
...block which Richard Merton, German metals potentate, had said he paid to the late John T. King in 1921 for speeding through his claim to seven million dollars' worth of War-seized stock of the American Metal Co. Through witnesses, bonds, and documents Prosecutor Emory R. Buckner has succeeded in tracing a total of $49,000 to Colonel Miller...
...With the Government's case against Colonel Miller practically complete, Mr. Buckner then began his onslaught on onetime (1921-24) U.S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty. He traced a $22,163.81 check of John T. King's to a deposit in the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, on Oct. 13, 1921. It happens that Harry M. Daugherty's brother, Mai S. Daugherty, is president of this bank; that the records for Oct. 13 and 14, 1921, have disappeared; that the accounts of Harry M. Daugherty, Mai S. Daugherty, and Jesse Smith are missing...
Finally, Prosecutor Buckner rounded out his case against Harry M. Daugherty by showing that a $40,000 block of the bonds handed by Herr Merton to Mr. King was sent to Otis & Co., Cleveland brokers, and that the proceeds were credited to Mr. Daugherty's account in his brother's Washington Court House bank...
...Trial. U.S. District Attorney Emory P. Buckner, in presenting a summary of what the Government would endeavor to prove, first took up the second point. Said...