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...Sometime acrobat, magician, horse thief, highwayman, circus-man, poet, sculptor, fomenter of disturbances in the Far East and superb Baron Munchausen." So reads a placard in the New Art Gallery, Madison Avenue, Manhattan, where Merton Clivette, 79, is having his first one-man show of paintings, his first artistic renown at all, but enough of it now to make one of the most amazing stories in the annals of art. Within three days from the opening of his exhibit, 30 paintings had last week been sold, at prices ranging from $200 to $2,000, and famed sculptors Jo Davidson...
...Daugherty-Miller trial for alleged conspiracy in the transfer of $7,000,000 worth of stock of the American Metal Co., seized during the War, back to the Merton family original owners (TIME, Sept. 13 et seq.) entered its fourth week the Government concluded its case. The crux of testimony offered was that brought out by U.S. Attorney Emory R. Buckner, who traced $40,000 worth of bonds given by Herr Merton to the late John T King to the Midland National Bank of Washington Court House, Ohio, of which Mal S. Daugherty, the onetime (1921-24) Attorney General...
...Government traced C00043203, a $10,000 Liberty bond, to the 1922 private brokerage account of onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller. It was further shown that this bond was one of a $441,000 block which Richard Merton, German metals potentate, had said he paid to the late John T. King in 1921 for speeding through his claim to seven million dollars' worth of War-seized stock of the American Metal Co. Through witnesses, bonds, and documents Prosecutor Emory R. Buckner has succeeded in tracing a total of $49,000 to Colonel Miller...
Finally, Prosecutor Buckner rounded out his case against Harry M. Daugherty by showing that a $40,000 block of the bonds handed by Herr Merton to Mr. King was sent to Otis & Co., Cleveland brokers, and that the proceeds were credited to Mr. Daugherty's account in his brother's Washington Court House bank...
...That was what brought Merton over here. When that letter was received, he came personally...