The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-10-03
NOR AS TO HIS
FUTURE COURSE
Attorney General Aliens
First Duties Now Will
Be the Selection of At
torneys to Try Disbar-
ment Proceedings Pend
ing Against Coakley,
McIsaac and COrcOran

Boston. Oct. 3.--Governor Cox vii
sent to the council on Wednesday tht
name of his appointee to complete th'
unexpired term of District Attorney
Nathan A. Tufts of Middlesex county
who was removed from the Office Sat
urday by the supreme court.
In making this announcement to-day
the governor said he had asked Attor'
ney General j. Weston Allen Tor ar
opinion whether the Office OF district
attorney is strictly a judicial Office
Under the law appointments to judi
cial Offices must held over until the
next meeting of the council for con
frmation while other appointments
NAV be confirmed Immediately.
Tufts to-day reiterated that he had
no statement to make regarding his
removal or his future conduct in the
case.
Nathan A. Tufts, who heard the de-
cision of the Massachusetts, supreme
court removing him from office while
he was officiating at the Princeton
Swarthmore football game at Prince
ton Saturday, returned to his home in
Winchester yesterday morning. He re-
manned at home bat short time and
then in company with Mrs. Tufts went
by automobile to Fitchburg, where
they visited his mother, Mrs. j. A.
Tufts, S66 Main street. The visitors
remained there for half an hour, leav.
ing about o'clock.
Reports that criminal proceedings
will be promptly started against Mr.
Tufts and certain attorneys alleged to
be involved with him in the cases in
which he was found guilty in the opln-
ion of the supreme judicial court are
The results of imagination and are not
based upon information from the au-
dhorities who would necessarily take
any action which may be taken in
the case.
Ii has been the uniform policy of
Attorney General j. Weston Allen, and
OF the attaches Of his Office, not to dis
cuss in advance any criminal action
contemplated and they have not de-
waited from this rule in the Tufts mat
ter If they plan any action.
Among Attorney General Aliens
more important duties before start
ing any criminal proceedings against
Nathan A. Tufts or any other attorney
win be the selection and appointment
OF attorneys to try the sisbarment pro
eeedings now pending against Attor-
ney Daniel H. Coakley, Attorney Dan
iel V. MeIsaac and Attorney William
j. Corcoran. Attorney General Allen
also would be Obliged to select and APP
point attorneys to conduct the possible
criminal prosecution of Nathan A.
Tufts. These details and the prepara-
tion of the various cases viii necessar-
lily consume much time.
Consequently criminal proceedings
against Nathan A. Tufts, il any, can
not be instituted in a few days or a
few weeks at best.
1t is understood that among the law
yers selected by Attorney General AL
1en to conduct proceedings arising out
of the bar associations disbarment pro-
ccedings brought against Coakley, Nc
Isaac and Corcoran. and possibly in the
PelIetier matter, should he decide TO
proceed against him. will be one, at
least. of the three attorneys for the
Boston Bar association. These lawyers,
all of whose names appear upon the
disharment petitions, are General Fran
els Peabody, Robert G. Dodge and An
drew Marshall.
The subcommittee of the grievance
committee of the bar association will
meet this week, at which time it is said
the Tufts case will be taken up. The
report is that the, charges upon which
the supreme judicial court found Tufts
guilty, and ordered his removal from
Office, will be drawn up in a report to
Attorney General Allen, with the re-
quest that he initiate proceedings to
the end that Tufts be disbarred. Il is
said there is likelihood Of other attor-
news being involved in these disbarment
proceedings with Tufts.