CHAMPAGNE BATH.
PERJURY CHARGE FOLLOWS. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 22, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 21. One of the most interesting cases in American jurisprudence lias just ended, when the Supreme Court decided that Earl Carroll, a noted American theatrical producer, must serve a year and a day in the Atlanta penitentiary, as the result of perjury arising out of a prohibition action. Carroll was charged with giving a birthday party a year ago at a New York theatre, at which a nude chorus girl bathed in a bath tub filled with champagne, before invited guests. Prohibition officials prosecuted Carroll, but were unable to prove that the bath tub contained liquor. Carroll denied that the girl was in the bath tub, but this was proved. Carroll spent many thousands of dollars in carrying the case to the highest court in the land. His only hope now is that President Coolidge may grant him a pardon.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 March 1927, Page 10
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161CHAMPAGNE BATH. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 March 1927, Page 10
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