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...Alfred F. Reilly, a cigaret lighter manufacturer, who had lost two patent case decisions in District Court, said he paid a total of $39,850 to the Judge's friend, William J. Fallen, who had already pleaded guilty to being Manton's "bag-man." During the payments Judge Manton reversed the unfavorable District Court decisions...
...vacancy. Then Justice Clarke of Ohio retired. George Sutherland of Utah replaced him. Justice Day of Ohio retired soon after that. The Catholic Church, left without a member on the bench since Chief Justice White's death, clamored for a Catholic. The Eastern hierarchy wanted young Martin Manton of New York. But Taft and old George W. Wickersham plugged for another Catholic (who also was a Democrat, most Catholics being Democrats), one from the Northwest. So, Pierce Butler of Minnesota was appointed instead of Martin Manton, who stayed on the bench of the mighty second Circuit Court of Appeals...
What Judge Martin Thomas Manton, now 58, did between 1922 and last winter, when he hurriedly resigned under fire, was told last week by witnesses testifying at his trial in Manhattan for conspiring to corrupt the administration of justice and allegedly accepting bribes of $186,146.* Tops among last week's three slush trials (see p. 18), it did not make a pretty story...
...Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed-one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler...
...Judge Manton, testimony indicated, sometimes acted as bagman himself. When John Lotsch got into trouble for accepting an earlier $200 bribe, he went to see Judge Manton. Lotsch said Judgi Manton fixed it up with District Judg3 Edwin Thomast all right-for $10,000. Judge Thomas acquitted John Lotsch...