Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief differences between this trial and Oilman Sinclair's last one were: 1) that Fall was not a codefendant, owing to illness; 2) that Son-in-law Everhart was now obliged to talk, a Federal law having been changed for his benefit; and 3) that the jury was locked up, as the result of Oilman Sinclair having had his last jury, which was left at large, followed about by private detectives...
...Judge. The judge before whom Oilman Sinclair last started to be tried in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, was Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons of the famed theatrical family of that name (TIME, Nov. 14). Justice Siddons lost much prestige through having to declare a mistrial that might not have occurred had he locked up the jury. The new judge, Justice Jennings Bailey, set out to conduct a different sort of trial by examining the talesmen himself, and curtly overruling many an elaborate objection by Sinclair's lawyers. Moreover, he announced that court would convene...
...Jury. Propped up in their box like boys at a spelling-bee, the new jury gazed with undisguised wonder at chunky Oilman Sinclair, whose broad face expressed confident determination. "Any time the truth comes out it is bound to help," was still Sinclair's attitude, but he was pale now as well as jaunty...
...jurors also gazed at the Mesdames Sinclair, the defendant's wife and mother. They seldom miss a day at his trial. The wife entered court the first day of this trial wearing orchids...
...them were able and accustomed to read newspapers. Justice Bailey saw to it this time that they were no collection of citizens so dormant that they had no knowledge of the Oil Scandals. He excused only those talesmen who said they had formed a firm opinion as to Sinclair's guilt or innocence. The twelve that were sworn were three grocers, a steamfitter, a repair man, an auto salesman, two clerks, a merchant, an expressman, a broker, a railroad agent-all men. Though few of them knew it, all these men had been investigated and watched by Sinclair detectives...