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...bringing of the trial in Washington, let it suffice to say that the jurisdiction over the alleged crime is legally in Washington; and that new evidence which had not previously been heard justified a new trial on entirely different grounds. The present charge is one of conspiracy to defraud the government, while the former one was the improper acceptance of fees while in public office. The action of the Department of Justice was entirely legal, and uninfluenced by persons outside the Department. The writer of your editorial has apparently forgotten an incident which took place early in this year...
...Unlike the Montana indictment, this one is on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. But the facts in both cases are similar...
...court because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official sten ographer to report the indictment proceedings. This point will be raised as the result of a writ of error in the case of George A. Storrs and others, charged with using the mails to defraud, Which was dismissed in the District Court of Utah because of the presence in the Grand Jury room of an official stenographer. Some state courts have held that official stenographers have a right to be present in the Grand Jury room while others have held that their presence invalidated an indictment...
Criminal Grand Jury indictments charging bribery, the receiving of bribes, conspiracy to defraud the U. S., had been obtained against Messrs. Doheny, Fall, Sinclair. Last week, the indictments were thrown out of court by Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy of the District of Columbia Supreme Court on a technical point (an assistant to the Attorney General had unlawfully appeared before the investigating Special Grand Jury). Mr. McCoy, a Democrat appointed by President Wilson, is credited with knowing the law well. His technical point will presumably be sus- tained when Messrs. Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, Government counsel, appeal...
Unexpectedly, the Special Federal Grand Jury in the District of Columbia indicted Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. of oil and gas lands in his home state. The alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler...