Word: falle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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County, Wyo., Out of the criminal suit in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, to see if Albert Bacon Fall, onetime (1921-23) Cabinet man, and Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair, were criminals or not, came more suspicion, much confusion, a mistrial...
...Principals. Albert Bacon Fall, his lungs congested, despaired greatly and wished that his criminal trial might begin afresh. But it could not begin afresh until January. Wrapped in a blue velvet bathrobe, Mr. Fall gathered strength to go home to New Mexico for Christmas. He reiterated his protests of innocence and said: "Unless doctors forbid me to return to Washington in January, I will come. But I must consider my family and, although I am old, perhaps I can remain with them a little longer before going across the Great Divide...
Harry Ford Sinclair, although younger, stronger, bolder and far richer than Mr. Fall, had an even less pleasant time ahead. For it was upon him and his friends that the fresh suspicion had fastened-suspicion of attempted jury-tampering, the last resort of wealthy felons...
...just as the disrepute of Oilman Sinclair and friends momentarily overshadowed that of Mr. Fall, so, last week, did the disrepute of yet other "villains" in the story overshadow "the villainy" of Oilman Sinclair and friends...
...bail.*Their hearings were put off until after Thanksgiving Day, while the government ran out other aspects of the case. "Hero" Burns. Detective William John Burns began last week in a heroic capacity. As soon as he heard that his 16 agents in Washington had been caught sleuthing the Fall-Sin clair jury, he announced that they had broken no law, "approached" no juror. He hurried down to Washington from Manhattan with a lot of papers, his face boiled red with righteous indignation...