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Houdini is dead, but Lawyer Martin W. Littleton is still alive, very. Lawyer Littleton is the man who last week extricated Harry Ford Sinclair from the oil scandal...
There was always a trick in Houdini's more startling performances, something like a false bottom or a split ring. It seemed perfectly legitimate, because the public goes to see a contortionist to be amusingly deceived. There was a trick in the Littleton release of Sinclair, too, only when the verdict was announced, the public did not seem amused...
Here came Lawyer Littleton's trick. The defense dropped the Fall deposition unexpectedly, abruptly, and terminated its case without giving the Government the openings it had counted on. The effect was the same as Sinclair's last trial, which was halted and called off before all the evidence was in, when it was found that Sinclair was sleuthing his jury. This time it was not a mistrial, however. Except for summing up, this trial was over...
...Lawyers. Lawyer Wright, first spokesman for the defense, is not Sinclair's chief council. That office is still held by Martin W. Littleton, the plump, fastidious, white-wooled Manhattanite to whom Senator Walsh lately suggested that he might well resign since his client had deceived him about important particulars of the case before the last trial. Lawyer Littleton's reply to Senator Walsh was: "Meddlesome Matties!" If it is true that Sinclair tried to get Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, the man who got Oilman Doheny acquitted, to replace Lawyer Littleton this time, Lawyer Littleton gave no sign...
...Meddlesome Matties! Scandal mongers!" replied Lawyer Littleton...