FRESH CHARGES

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 576, 30 May 1925, Page 3

FRESH CHARGES

AMERICAN OIL SCANDALS RESULT OE FRESH EVIDENT' E i Q UASH El> IN D l-CTMEN TS REVIVED (By Electric Cable-—Convr^tit.) (Auat. and N.X. Cable Association) Washington, May 27. . Albert L. Fall, ex-Scnator and cx-Ministcr of the Interior: Harry F. Sinclair chairman of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation ; •md E. L. Doliciiy. oil producer, have been again indicted by, a Federal (Irand Jury, which has been taking new evidence regarding. th'e oil" leases' cases. 1 lie action is'the sequel To ' the dismissal of Hie: fo ri iter i udictme i its. Mess rs Ath?e, Fpuierenoylaiid Owen Roberts, the special Government counsel, obtained a ntw Grand Jury on. May 11th.,and submitted fresh evidence, resulting in the lastest development. Two indictments have been returned, the first charging Fall and

Sinclair with conspiring to lease the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves wihout competitive bidding, and the second charging Fall and Dohony with the same offence regarding the California reserves. The Government has apparently dropped the bribery accusation against Fall and Dobeny. There is no indictment against Doheny’s son, Edward, who was formerly indicted.