BRIBE ACCEPTED

Evening Star, Issue 20316, 26 October 1929, Page 15

BRIBE ACCEPTED

AMERICAN Oil SCANDAL FALL FOUND GUILTY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, October 25. (Received October 26, at 9 a.m.) The former Secretary of the Interior, Mr Fall, was found guilty of receiving a IOOjOUOdoI bribe from Mr E. L. Dolieny. The jury recommended mercy.— Australian Press Association. [The Teapot Dome oil scandal commenced in 1923 upon the investigation of a committee of the United States Senate into the conditions under which oil lands in Wyoming and California which had been set aside by Congress as a fuel oil reserve for the United States navy had been transferred from tho naval authorities to tho Department of the Interior, and then by Mr Fall, the former head of that department, to the Sinclair and Doheny oil interests. Evidence was given during the inquiry of substantial financial assistance having been given by both Sinclair and Doheny to Mr Pall. The latter and Doheny were charged with conspiracy to defraud tho Government,' but after a long trial were acquitted in December, 1926. The leases were cancelled by a Note of the Senate.]