Arizona republican., 1921-02-13

Federal Judge Says Bank
Directors Responsible For
Theft OF $96, 600 By Clerk
Receiving $50 Per Month
TRepubIIcan A. P. Leased Wirel


WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. = Senator
Dial of South Carolina announced to-
day in the senate that he would bring
Impeachment proceedings against
Federal Judge Lands of Chicago If
he obtained confirmation of statements
credited in the press today to Judge
Landis in the case of Francis J. Carey,
bank clerk, charged with embezzle-
ment.
Carey, who pleaded guilty to embez-
zling $4,000 from the National City
bank of Ottawa, ILL.,, was released yes
terday on his own recognizance by
ing the bank directors really were re-
sponsible for tho theft because they
paid Carey only-e90 month.
''Any man who utters that kind of
statements" said Senator Dial. is not
worthy of public confidence and
should be impeached.''
Senator Dial said he had written to
Chicago to obtain confirmation of the
statements credited to Judge Lands.
If confirmation is had, he declared, he
would bring the matter to the atten-
ton of the house, where impeachment
proceedings are required to originate,
and ask his impeachment"
Senator Thomas, Democrat of Colo
RADIO, interrupted to say that Judge
lands, besides his salary as federal
judge, receives an enormous, princely
salary from some baseball organiza-
tion."
Lands Confirms Statement
DES MONIES, Iowa, Feb. 12.-Fed-
eral Judge K. M. Lands of Chicago, in
a speech before the Iowa American
legion here tonight, admitted making
statements similar to those Senator
Dial of South Carolina charged him
with, and asserted:
"a
tor Dial with my compliments"
Judge Landis sent his audience into
uproars of hilarity by his thrusts al
| Senator Dial.
Senator Dial says" stated Judge
Lands, that he has written. to find
out if what itsis reported I said is 9
| truthful report-that is to say thai
| the banks directors were really re-
sponsible for the theft, because they
paid Carey only $50 q month. I want
| to tell you what the case was. This
| fellow won't have to inquire any fur
| ther. I want to save him his time for
his cotton mills and his banks
Judge lands then went into details
of the case. in which Francis J. Carey
clerk in the National City bank oi
| Ottawa, Ill.,, was charged with EN-
bezzlement of $4,000. Carey, he as
serted, was only 10 years old, and wa:
paid but a little more than SO a da,
\ IoA ud1uilDS Dlsutu.O9'
. month. Judge Lands declared tina
his Investigations showed him tha
young Carey was the support of hi
mother and four younger brothers ant
a sister. The judge further declared
that his study of the situation had dis
closed the fact that the bank which
employed Carey as receiving teller a
$50 a month, paid go per cent of prof
on the investment to their sharehold
ers on their stock per annum."
Then it was" Judge Lands de
clared, that 1 made the statemen
that board of bank directors tha
were guilty of creating the condition
have outlined would naturally an
reasonably invite embezziement.
repeat that here, and 1 send that t
Senator Dial with my compliments"
: Judge Lands won most approval i
his handling of Senator Dial Readin
from who's Who of Senator Dial
: interest in South Carolina banks an
cotton mills, he declared:
Il think he had better get out c
, the banking business, or else get ou
! of the senate" and concluded that
in all his sixteen years of service o
the bench he shad not accompIishe
! anything else, Il have performed tn
, Herculean task Of dragging Senate
: Dial from what appeared to be an al
. tight obscurity"
a Judge Landis declared that b
, aimed, of course, to send Carey som
, place, but that he did not intend |
send him to the penitentiary.