TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL
PRINCIPALS ON TRIAL THE FIRST LEGAL SKIRMISH (Australian end N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received October 20. 1 p.m 1 WASHINGTON, OHobee ' 19. The Government won the first legal skirmish in the Fall-Sinclair trial, when* it obtained the admission, in .spite of the defence’s objection, of Fall s famous letter of duly, 1921, to Doheney, asserting that lie (Fall) was then in complete charge of the Government oil reserves.
The admission of this letter is considered a. blow to the defence, because the latter had indicated that it would prove that others than Fall were responsible for the naval oil policy which finally resulted in turning the reserve over to Sinclair.
Earlier in tho session, Mr. Martin Littleton, chief counsel for the defence, told the jury that Fall and Sinclair would prove that they were prompted by patriotic motives and acted in the interest of national defence when they signed the Teapot Dome lease. Mr. Littleton asserted that they would disprove the prosecution’s claim that Fall received bonds from Sinclair after the lease was granted.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16475, 20 October 1927, Page 8
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