Word: sinclairs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week-eleven weeks and 1,600,000 words of court record after the Burnses' services to Oilman Sinclair went on trial-Son Burns stood up in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia to receive his sentence. Justice Siddons asked if he had anything further...
...William J. Burns, the great detective, was served as it had been his profession to serve others. As for Henry Mason Day, Oilman Sinclair's handsome henchman who hired the Burnses and conveyed to them the Sinclair orders, he received a four-month sentence. To Oilman Sinclair's personal court record was added a sentence of six months for being the big rat in the trap who had ordered the others to help...
...four cases were, of course, appealed. Harry Ford Sinclair, looking like a tired Mussolini, had plenty of money left to go on arguing that any man with money enough is as fully entitled to shadow juries as is the U. S. Government. To support this contention, Sinclair's lawyers might even cite certain earlier activities of William J. Burns, when he was Chief of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation under the defamed Daugherty regime. Another argument which, though it failed to impress Justice Siddons, the Sinclair lawyers may try out on the U. S. Supreme Court, is this...
...With the Sinclair, Day and Burns sentences recorded, the Federal prosecution prepared to act against each & every one of the 14 Burns detectives employed in the jury-shadowing; prepared also for a retrial of the Fall-Sinclair criminal conspiracy case itself, to begin April...
Meantime the Senate Committee on Public Lands pressed its investigation of the short-lived Continental Trading Co. through which Sinclair & friends, undeterred and perhaps aided by Col. Stewart of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, made eight millions on paper one day in 1921, of which three millions were realized, turned into Liberty Bonds and mysteriously distributed. Last week the list of known distributions stood as follows...