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Echoes. Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama read the decision of the Fall-Doheny jurors. His white waistcoat swelled with indignation; he hastened to tell his colleagues about it. When they saw him rise from his seat in the back row of the Senate, they knew he would discourse for a half hour. Said he: "I do not want this day to pass without saying a word about a farcical trial&* and miscarriage of justice that has taken place in the city of Washington. I feel that the people of the nation, the law-abiding citizens, the honest...
Last week when Senator Heflin of Alabama had become sufficiently steamed up commenting on the Fall-Doheny trial (see above), he kept going until he had run over the entire Harding coterie-including Jesse Smith. Said the heated Mr. Heflin: "Nobody else knew what he (Smith) knew and with him dead there was nobody to tell the story-so Jesse Smith was murdered...
Emory R. Buckner, U. S. District Attorney in New York, immediately demanded that Senator Heflin explain his murder charge, and began an investigation...
...days later, Mr. Heflin again stood up in the Senate. He backed up his previous charges with more charges, quoted an old testimony of an Alabama bootlegger: " 'You know Secretary Mellon loaned the Republican National Committee $5,000,000 in 1920. Only $3,000,000 has been repaid. There is a deficit of $2,000,000. Jess Smith was charged with getting that money. The plan was to have the liquor men and the breweries contribute to this fund...
Doheny and Fall are again free men. What seems to have been a fairly able jury unanimously acquitted them of charges of conspiracy. Mr. Doheny, leaving the court, delivered to reporters an heroic on the unbesmirched patronym he now passes on to his grand-children. True, Senator Heflin of Alabama shouted, "All law-ab ding citizens will hang their heads in shame at the verdict", but that was party politics, says the New York Tribune...