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With well-worn evidence Messrs. Owen Josephus Roberts and Atlee Pomerene, special U. S. counsel, conducted the prosecution before Justice William Hitz. Only novelty: they managed to introduce the illuminating fact that Fall, in a parallel case, had received some $269,000 in Liberty bonds from Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair who in return received the Teapot Dome lease...
...jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked Judge Hitz to the jury: "You have nothing whatever to do with...
Last week, however, Justice William Hitz of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that the bribery indictments were valid. Justice Hitz ruled that the Harding order transferring the Elk Hills reserve to the Department of the Interior "had the force of law until revoked or declared invalid." He said that "an official act need not be a lawful act to render the official liable but need only be official in form and done under the color of his office." Therefore the bribery indictments held good and Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have to stand trial under them...
...offense. They argued that U. S. Justice had come to a lamentable state when the Government, having failed to get a conviction for conspiracy, could change the cause of action to bribery and thereby secure a new deal with the old deck. But unless they can reverse the Justice Hitz decision on the "double jeopardy" theory, the future will see a Fall-Doheny as well as a Fall-Sinclair criminal trial. The oily half-brothers appeared to have been united again...
...Justice Hitz was soon expected to refuse Mr. Sinclair's motion for a new trial and to pronounce his sentence. But Mr. Sinclair is a long way from jail. He will carry his case to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and to the U. S. Supreme Court if necessary. Said he: "This is only the first inning...