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Small behind his vast bench in Manhattan's slick new U. S. courthouse, Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week peered down upon an important gathering. There was grey-haired Arthur Vining Davis, for 29 years president or chairman of huge Aluminum Co. of America. There was stocky Thurman Wesley Arnold, law professor lately made Assistant Attorney General in charge of trustbusting. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Davis was redhaired, big-boned William Watson Smith, Alcoa's trial lawyer for some 25 years. Conferring occasionally with Mr. Arnold was spry, young Walter Lyman Rice, only ten years...
...Lawyer Rice rose to make his opening remarks, Judge Caffey interrupted: "May I inject the remark that I am most helped by statements which omit the trees and show me the forest...
...Medalie who recently prosecuted Banker Charles E. Mitchell. At the other sat Defender "Wild Bill" Donovan. With his dignified wife beside him, Banker Harriman sat apart, gazing rather vacantly into space, playing with his panama. Instead of proceeding to select a jury, Col. Donovan rose and told Federal Judge Caffey that Mr. Harriman was unable to give him any coherent or rational help in preparing the defense. Col. Donovan asked that the court determine Banker Harriman's mental competence before the trial. He produced six affidavits, one from Mrs. Harriman declaring that Banker Harriman had never been the same...
...answer Mr. Medalie pointed out that a man of advanced years and social position would naturally suffer a severe shock at being brought to book for a serious crime. He did not want Banker Harriman's sanity tried by a lay jury but rather by Judge Caffey himself...
Oliver Garceau, of Boston, Massachusetts; John Brigham Howard, of Edgewood, Pennsylvania; Harry Tuchman Levin, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Robert Caffey Liddon, Jr., of Corinth, Missouri; David Leonard Marks, of Brooklyn, New York; Herman Israel Orentlicher, of Brockton, Massachusetts; Isadore Paisner, of Brookline, Massachusetts; Ames Samuel Pierce, of Huntington, Massachusetts; Albert Pratt, of Duxbury, Massachusetts; Birdsey Renshaw, of New York, New York; Alfred Hertz Rosenthal, of Dorchester, Massachusetts; Walter Solomon Salant, of New York...