SENATOR'S CHARGES
DID JURY GIVE TIP?
MORE ENQUIRIES PENDING
WASHINGTON, December 27
The Seriate spent another hilarious time this afternoon, when Senator Heflin released a- further instalment of his "revelations," following his allegation that Jesse Smith, an intermediary between prominent personages, had been murdered in the apartment of Harry Dougherty, a former Attorney-General. He insisted that because the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. Mellon) had failed to deny the story that he had lent £1,000,000 to the Republican committee, then it must, be true.
"He simply waved his hand, looked uneasy, and'said it was delirium!" shouted Senator Heflin, who proceeded to paraphrase tjie poet's line as follows: "Old distiller of beer, wine and rum, Mellon, thy name is Delirium." Senator. Heflin declared that Messrs. Fall and Doheny, who we're recently acquitted when tried for conspiracy in connection with the oil leases scandal, had the jury "in their pockets:" "Why," he asserted, "the jurors even loudly sang 'Bye-bye, blackbird,' as a signal through the walls of the juryroom, so that Doheny would know an ac quittal was coming."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16233, 6 January 1927, Page 10
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