Word: subpoena
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...works, electric dynamos, elevated railways and civic opera, that all contribute to make Chicago its bigger and better self. He is Samuel Insull, and it is charged that he either knuckled to or abetted the winning Smith campaign to the tune of $500,000. The Committee issued a subpoena for Mr. Insull and just then it became known that he had planned to go abroad. The press hinted at evasion, whereupon Mr. Insull, charged with having furnished the largest individual wad of political slush-money ever known, replied (in a quaint accent that is all his own) : "I have made...
...have nothing to say.' "The other was: 'I'll be right here when they come to serve it (the subpoena). Of course I wouldn't try to evade it. I never evade...
Witnesses. Congressman Reid presented a list of 73 witnesses whom he asked be called for the defense. The list included Secretary of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, Secretary of Agriculture Jardine. It was pointed out that it is unusual to subpoena Cabinet officers, and Mr. Reid countered by saying personal attendance would be waived if the three Secretaries would submit documentary records...
...Mitchell appeared with his counsel, Representative Reid of Illinois. As the Court was about to swear him, Mr. Reid objected. The Court was surprised. It was discovered that Col. Mitchell, while directed to appear, had not actually been subpoenaed. So a subpoena was promptly served on him. He still declined to testify, saying in a letter to the Court and to the War Department: "I am advised by my counsel that it would be inconsistent with my legal rights and might jeopardize my case should I be required to testify before the Naval Court on matters likely...
...Jerome of Manhattan was trying to obtain evidence against Richard A. Canfield, famed gambler. Vanderbilt was known to be a frequenter of Canfield's place; dowagers who had never set foot therein avowed that he had often lost as much as $75,000 in one evening. The attorney subpoenaed him as a witness. He, with a gentleman's reticence for airing his losses in public, avoided the subpoena. Hundreds of detectives believing him to be concealed in his Manhattan house, beleaguered the place. The press played up the episode as a farce. Crowds gathered to stare; the announcers...