Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

Proceedings in Supreme Court
 Charged With Deceit,
 Malpractice and Gross Mis-
 conduct.
 Boston, Sept. 2s.-Charges of deceit nal practice and gross misconduct were | made against three Boston attorneys in disbarment proceedings instituted in the supreme court today by the Boston Bar Association.
 Two of the attorneys, Daniel H. Coak- ley and William J. Corcoran, figured prominently in the trial recently of Ma than A. Tufts, whose removal as district attorney of Middlesex county was sought by the attorney general because of al legged malfeasance and msfeasance in office. The decision in the Tufts case has not yet been handed down.
 Daniel V. McIsaac, the third man nann- ed in the disbarment petition proceedings, | formerly was assistant district attorney of Suffolk county. Corcoran was at one | time district attorney of MiddleseX coun- l ty.
 The charge that District Attorney Tufts conspired with Coakley and others to eXtort large sum of money from mo- tion picture producers under threat of prosecution after midnight reels at Mis- | hawton Manor, a road house Il Woburn | conducted by Brownie" Kennedy, forms 1 the basis of one of the allegations on which Coakley's disbsrment is asked. The Woburn affair was the aftermath of dinner party in this city in honor of Fat ty'' Arbuckle, but Arbuckle did not ac- company the other members of the party on the trip tN Woburn.
 The DatifiO0 charges that in 1918 he entered irto a conspiracy with the district attorney of the northern district of Massachusetts
 (Middiesex County and others to extort
 from divers persons large sums of money
 under the threat and menace of the in
 stitut;on and prosecution of criminal ac-
 cusations and proceedings and sundrv
 civil claims and the notoriety which would accompany the institution of such proceedings"
 Prsuant to such conspiracy, it is
 charged Coakley demanded and receiv-
 ed for his services as an attorney sums of money grossly in excess of fair and
 reasonable charge for any legitimate ser
 vice performed or to be performed by him.
 Other specifications charge that Coax. ! Icy has capitalized his reputed influence with the district attorney of Suffolk ant Middlesex counties by charging divers
 persons large sums of money for service.
 in preventing criminal prosecution whicl
 had been instituted or threatened or
 which was believed by such persons tt Y be threatened and that he utilized his re
 puted influence with the district attorne, V of Suffolk count for the purpose of ef - fecting settlement of civil cases througl d | threats of prosecution.
 l. Coraoran is charged by the Bar Associ g ation with employing women of loos . 1 moral character to entraD men to the en g that he might levy b1ackmail upol . them,' with publicly stating that ne hai e 1 extorted large sums of money urde o threats of exposure for improper con : duct, and with charging fees for allege s professional services far in excess of an ' legitimate service rendered.
 : Victor Searles, a nephew of the lat If Edward F. Searles, a Methuen million !. aire, is mentioned in the petition as hay m been blackmailed by Corcoran. n Corcoran, it is charged. 'conspire III with others to extort large sum ( .' money from Searles and to that end al ranged that Searles would be discovere = with certain women in a compromisin ,H situation and should be advised to empIo 10 Corcoran as his attorney to save ho U LL from publicity" Corcoran, the chars III continues, then solicited employment IT. the husband of one of the women, ar ee 'extorted $50,000 from Searles as u T. price of secrecy, informing the husba1
 of said woman that only a small amoul
 had been collected and inducing the la
 ter to accept 5000 in settlement of Il 'E alleged claim. retaining the balance
 the $50.0o0 for himself and his COCO h. spirators.'
 CT In another specification Corcoran is z ed legged to have extorted S55, ,O0O from O nd Joseph E. Osdorn after the latter h n- been discovered in private room in 1i- hotel with the wife of one John E. Ha
 He also is charged with having conspir lot with the district attorney of Middles rs. county and others to extort money fro ft- the International Service Company, In ad by threats of criminal prosecution T i'm latter case was the basis of one of le1 charges on which Tufts was tried ly- Two charges that he conspired W
 Coakley to obtain a large sum of mon from the estate of John Sullivan lrd Brookline. The other had to do with
 case of Hart, named in the charl
 against Corcoran. It is alleged that \ ,ts. Isaac by misrepresentation induced H
 to accept s6.000 in settlement of cla -iss against Osborn for alternating the lgh fections of Hart's wife, the alleged IT lgh representation having reference to vas amount which Osborn had paid or '
 about to pay to his attorney. Corcor
 for the purpose of settling the cla
 It also is alleged that by misleading H nv with false advice with respect to 1 rights in divorce proceeding instituted .,- Mrs. Hart, he violated his duty to his 'ch ent