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...When he was U. S. Attorney General (1921-24), Harry Micajah Daugherty had the statute of limitations extended from three to six years for the avowed purpose of prosecuting war frauds. The purpose of Senator Walsh's revision was to rob Milton T. Everhart, son-in-law of Albert Bacon Fall, of the excuse upon which he escaped testifying in the Fall-Sinclair oil lease trials. If immune to prosecution for anything he did more than three years ago, Mr. Everhart cannot again plead fear of selfincrimination; must tell about some suspicious Liberty Bonds he handled in 1922 during...
...Sinclair was subpoenaed. So was Albert B. Fall, ex-Secretary of the Interior, who made the lease. Both are expected to decline to testify on the grounds that they might incriminate themselves. The sons-in-law of Mr. Fall were also summoned. At least one of them, Milton T. Everhart, is expected to make a like plea; but the Government counsel, delving industriously for the long-hidden truth, hope to force him to testify, believing that he could tell a damning tale...