The Alaska daily empire., 1922-02-21
UNITED STATES DISTRICT ATTY.
IS REMOVED FROM OFFICE! five
JUDGES DECIDE FATE IN BOSTON

,ormer assistant to Pelletier and
also a former United States District
Attorney, and Jack Patron, de-
tective.
The State charged general con-
piracy between Coakley and Pelle-
Ter. and alleged that the others
were called in from time to time on
specific schemes to blackmail. In
Ibis connection the State called at
IGNITION to evidence that Coakley,
having a large legal practice, boast
ID of his influence with the Dis
trict Attorney in and out of the
presence of Pelleticr, without re-
sentiment by, the latter. Thus, the
prosecution charged, it became gem
rally known that Coakley could OBJ
tain favors from the District At
to1ney which were denied others,
and many cases were placed in
Coakley's hands because of his re-
putcd influence. That condition, the
State charged, made it easy for
Pelletier and Coahley to carry on
heir alleged matchmaking schemes
Sold Out Clients.
Gallagher was charged in one in
stance with having sold out his
clients under promise in the
fulfillment of which it was alleged
he afterwards was appointed an
Assistant District Attorney. In that
case evidence was adduced to the
trc h q
divorced husband of Mrs. Jennie S.
Chase's daughter. offered to avert
criminal prosecutions, threatened by
Pelletier, If Mrs. Chase would pay
$4,000. She refused, although
Gallagher as her counsel, the state
ment charged, recommended pay
ment Subsequently an indictment
was returned in Suffolk County
gainat Curtis W. Emery, second
husband of Mrs. Chase's daughter,
but Emery was never prosecuted,
and Gallagher after being named as
Assistant District Attorney mol
prosecuted the case.
-Extorticn Charge.
In the single case in which the
defense admitted that Pelletier had
received money the State contended
that he had used his office to fright
IN BENJAMIN Piscope into paying
= $4,000 fee to Daniel V. McIsaac.
Counsel for Pelletier admitted that
the District Attorney received half
OF the $21 600 bat declared that il
was a legitimate fee received in
private practice as a partner OF
McIsaac. They denied the charge of
he State that the fee was extorted
by threats that unless it was paid
Pelletier would have some one
watch" a hotel owned by Piscopo.
A motion attacking the right OF
the court to remove a District At
torney, on the ground that the Leg
stature alone had that authority,
was overru,ed by the court, which
held also at the outset that the pro-
ceeding was a civil one and not
quasi terminal as was commended by
Pelletier's counsel.
Court of Five Judges.
The four members of the court
who sat with Chief Justice Rugg
were Justices DcCourcy, Carroll,
Braley and Jenney Attorney Cen
eral Allen conducted the prosecution
with the assistance of three mem
bers of the Boston Bar Association,
Robert G. Dodge. J. j. Mccarthy and
Andrew Marshall. Senator Reed was
assisted in the defense by Louis c.
Boyle, of Washington, former At
torney-General of Kansas, and two
of Pelletier's assistant district at
torneys.
Pelletier was appointed District
Attorney to fill an unexpired term
in 1909 and has been reelected at
every election since that time He
is a graduate OF Boston College
which conferred the honorary de
gree of Doctor of Laws upon him IL
1918, and of the Boston Universit,
Law School, and was admitted Il
the Massachusetts Bar in 1894. HI
is nationally known as Supreme AID
yocate of the Knights Of Columbus
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