AMERICAN OIL SCANDALS
ALLEGED JURY TAMPERING SENSATIONAL CHARGES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, January 26. (Received January 27, at 10.10 a.m.) Sensational charges featured the resumption of the Sinclair-Burns contempt of court trial. The Attorney for Burns told Mr Justice Siddons that Boman, the defence witness had been struck in an hotel room and robbed ot a letter bearing on the character of the State’s star witness. Mr Justice Siddon stated that he assumed that the police would handle the charge later. Burns himself declared, that the rooms of many of his operatives had been entered and documents stolen.
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Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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98AMERICAN OIL SCANDALS Evening Star, Issue 19775, 27 January 1928, Page 4
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