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Meanwhile two civil suits have been tried?one in California for the cancelation of Mr. Doheny's lease of the Elk Hills reserve, one in Wyoming for the cancelation of Mr. Sinclair's lease of Teapot Dome. Decisions have not been handed down. In any event, no jail sentence and no criminality is involved...
...defense will each send to Judge Kennedy their "briefs," elaborate documentations of all they have been saying in his presence. Judge Kennedy, left behind in Cheyenne, will read them until summer is come and perhaps gone. Ultimately, he will declare that Harry F. Sinclair's lease of Teapot Dome is to be (is not to be) cancelled. Whatever he says, the case will be appealed-probably to the U. S. Circuit Court, St. Paul, Minn...
...barrel. Then, mysteriously, a man representing the Canadian company drew out $300,000 worth of Liberty Bonds, of which $230,000 worth somehow came into the possession of the famous Mr. Fall and his son-in-law. Harry F. Sinclair was interested in the Canadian company, and also in Teapot Dome, leased by Mr. Fall. A connection...
...Cheyenne, the Government's civil suit to cancel the lease of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve to Harry F. Sinclair (TIME, Mar. 23) wound to an ineffectual close. The Government charged conspiracy and attempted to connect up the lease with payment of alleged bribes to ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall. A payment of $25,000 in Liberty Bonds in 1923. after Mr. Fall had resigned from office and was in Mr. Sinclair's employ, was established. But the defense argued that this was a legitimate loan and had nothing to do with the Teapot Lease...
...Midland Refining Co., James E. O'Neil of the Prairie Oil and Gas Company and others had undertaken a fake transaction in oil by which they made some millions- that these profits were converted into Liberty Bonds- that Secretary Fall got a block of these bonds for the Teapot Dome Lease. Osler, Blackmer and O'Neil have taken up quarters in Europe beyond the Court's reach...