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Next morning the Pittsburgh grand jury filed into the court room and handed to the judge the Government's charges with the words written across their face: "Not a True Bill." The jury's refusal to indict spared Andrew William Mellon the humiliation of having to defend himself in court on the charge that, as Secretary of the Treasury, he had brazenly and deliberately tried to cheat on his income tax return...
...matter that the Federal government could, if it chose, make public the names of the taxpayers whose returns are being scrutinized and the community in which such a taxpayers lives would not know whether the taxpayer had or had not done something irregular until the grand jury returned an indictment or refused to indict...
Meanwhile the family of a taxpayer and he himself would be subject to all the humiliation that comes with an indictment in the court of public opinion. If the grand jury subsequently refused to indict, the injustice would not be erased. There would always be the innuendo derived from the publicity given originally that somehow the taxpayer wasn't exactly on the level with his government...
...Thirty-two years ago Texas Deputy Robert S. Weisiger pulled his gun, killed Spot North, a Negro who resisted arrest. For 32 years nothing happened. Last week Sheriff Weisiger asked a Texas court to indict him for the shooting-so he could be legally vindicated. No witness of the incident was still alive...
...Federal laws and ... if you do so, I shall request the Attorney General to proceed against you immediately." Founder Weir proceeded to commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time, he said) that sentimental masterpiece, David Copperfield. Would the Attorney General indict him? The steel business is currently improving, has little grudge against the Government. President Roosevelt has told friends: "I've gotten to like that fellow Myron Taylor [U. S. Steel] since I've seen so much of him." Only last week Donald B. Gillies (Corrigan-McKinney Steel) told...