The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-06-24
GRAND JURY MAY ACT.
Expected to support NrNab In Hts
Contention About Case.

ON6''D JONi WI 6NI.
Expected 4" support McNab In Hts
'""tent'o" About Case.
san FRANcIsco. June 80 Interest in
creases here in the causes which led
Federal District Attorney McNab to re-
sign. The Fedora, Grand Jury will meet
tomorrow and Is expected To take
action supporting the District Attorney
in his contention that the Attorney
General had no right To order the post
ponement Of cases after he had been
assured more than once that delay
would he predjudical tn any verdicts
for the Government.
The Mothers Club of Oakland met
to-day and sent long telegram to
President Wilson urging him not to
accept McNab's resignation, but tn see
to it that the District Attorney is upheld.
Mc<ab Ready 10 Fight.
McNab said he expected to get a
telegram this afternoon from the Presi-
dent accepting his resignation. He re-
fused to make any statement. but de-
clared that II he attacked he would
make Use of official correspondence
which shows that Acknowledgement
McReynolds was warned Of the boast :
made by sydney Smith and by young
Caminet,i that they could bring ample
influence TO bear on high officials in
WASHINGTON To "call or MCEah and
defeat his plans for bringing both the
white slave cases and The Western Fuel
officials TO justice.
McNab said that though responsibility
in the Caminetti case might be shifted
from MCReynolds To Secretary Wilson
there was no reason given for delaying
the trial Of Digs and no reason what
ever FOR the absolute change Of policy
within less than "A month IN regard to
sydney Smith and Robert Bruce OF the
Western Fuel Company.
The general sentiment among San
Francisco and California people is
strongly in favor Of McNab's action.
1t is not understood there why David
Starr Jordan should have advised
the President that McNahs statement
was not well founded"
I, was learned to-day that Sydney
V. smith. who ~ said to have made
personal representations to the Attor-
nev General in the effort H. have the
indictments against him and Robert
Bruce dropped is said to have sent n
letter to an influential official in Wash
ington seeking his aid.
This letter is said to say:
NO man in the city of any sense be-
lieves ! would have countenanc"d the
cheating of the Government ont OF $780,
900 which would have been the duty at
~ cents "A ton on G+,o0" tons
Near a3OO.OOO. says Government.
The local Department of Justice SAYS
that the frauds will reach nearer 5000
OOO and insists that the directors must
have known what was going on.
Several months ago MrNah became
convinced that agents for the Western
Fuel Company as We'll as others for
Caminett and Diggs were tampcring
with the Governments witnesses and
sent this letter tn McRoynolds:
~ ascertain that attorneys for the
Western Fuel defendants are searching
the records of trial jurors and are eN-
pending larE" sums In shadowing them
believe the situation requires that |
be informed on questions regarding all
trial Jurors request authority to cm-
plov "A detective to secure the information
above suggested and To prevent inter
ference with justice by above defenda nts.
All Government agents might b" de
tailed to the work OF searching for ev-
dence" "
\ detail Of the case which arouses in
tcrcst here is the fact that although de-
lay in the Caminetti case was ordered
So that CommisSiOner-Gencr Cami-
netti need not leave Washington to aid
in the defence of his son, there has
been no explanation as to why the
prosecution Of Maury Dgss was
stayed. The cases are separate.
In a letter to NcRcynolds sent MAY
90 McNah charged that influential rel
atives Of DigGs would. If possible, cor
rupt jurors or get witnesses ont of the
state, McNab limited Yesterday that
one Of thcs" witnesses already had dis
/ appeared but would make no direc,
charge that he had been spirited away.
Wants NcNeynOIds Removed.
Judge Clayton Harrington sent a
telegram to President Wilson to-day
asking tho President to remove At
torney General McRcynolds from the
office he has dlsgraced"
Judge Herrington was appointed a
special Government prosecutor by for
mer Attorney-General Wickersham To
assist United States District Attorney
McNah in the prosecution Of Drew
Caminctti and Maury Digs for alleged
violation of the white slave act. His
| telegram to President Wilson follows:
"lf Drew caminetti or Maury Dlggs
wer" entitled to continuance VI their
cases the District Court would so order
y" application for a continuance has
ever been made If any director or tho
western Fu"' COMPANY has been in
diclcd uron insuni'ienl evidence. the
Nstr'ct Court VIII dismiss the case as to
| them. The Attorney. General reviewed