A SORDID CHAPTER

Evening Star, Issue 19713, 14 November 1927, Page 5

A SORDID CHAPTER

AMERICAN COURT SCANDAL JURY TAMPERING CHARGES. Press Asiodatiou—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, November 12. What Government officials declared to be one of the most sordid chapters in the history of American justice was disclosed to-day, when the oil jury tampering investigation revealed new sensational aspects. One of Bum’s agents, a former army man, with a good record, had been employed spying on the jury, and, finding it'distasteful, decided to" ask advice of some man in public life. He is a Pennsylvanian, ami, learning that Governor Pinchot of that State was in Washington, he called on him and told him that “funny business ” was occurring. Governor Pinchot advised the agent to reveal it to the Government counsel, Mr Roberts, who suggested that the agent should continue his duties and report back to him all that was occurring. It is now disclosed upon this agent’s evidence before the grand jury to-day that the detective agency’s allegations that the Government had been tampering with the jury were false, and that the agency, when jury tampering was discovered, introduced much false evidence before the grand jury to clear itself and its detectives, and afterwards boasted that the Government “was running around in circles and getting nowhere.”