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Three days later, the twelve jurors, with news in their weary eyes, returned to Judge John C. Knox's Federal courtroom in Manhattan. They had decided without much trouble that onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller was guilty of conspiracy to defraud the U. S. Government. But 70* hours of argument and sleep under lock and key had failed to produce a verdict on onetime (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, who was closely linked with the alien property fraud. The final vote of the jurors was eleven to one for conviction of Mr. Daugherty...
...York last week began the second conspiracy trial of one-time (1921-24) Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, who are charged with accepting part of a $441,000 melon as a reward for allowing the transfer of the seized $7,000,000 American Metal Co. stock back to the original German owners. The first trial of these gentlemen miscarried last October when the twelve jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict (TIME...
Then, one day last week, they awoke to the hard reality of deciding on the conspiracy or innocence of onetime (1921-24) U. S. Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty and onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, who were charged with fraudulently allowing the transfer of $7,000,000 in stock in the American Metal Co. back to the original German owners. The defense lawyers had summed up their cases. Colonel William Rand, attorney for Colonel Miller, did it curtly. Max D. Steuer, in behalf of Mr. Daugherty, did it emotionally.* Prosecutor Emory Buckner in his final address...
...Steuer and Colonel William S. Rand, attorneys for Defendants Daugherty and one-time (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller, then began the defense. Throughout the trial defense attorneys have repeatedly urged dismissal of the case on the ground that the line of evidence offered in no way implicated the defendants. Now further defense was offered that since the $7,000,000 transfer-transaction had been consummated by assistants with but slight knowledge on the part of the defendants, therefore Mr. Miller and Mr. Daugherty could not be said to have "conspired" to put these claims through...
...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...