Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-23
DAUGHERTY CLAIMS
MEANs CONFEssES
FALSE S|NE AIRING
busted Republican Attorney
General Writes Rebuke
to Candidate Dawes

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Sept. 22.-(By
be Associated Press. epudiation
- tissue of lies" of all that he
old the senate committee in its in
'estigation of the administration OF
Harry NJ. Daugherty as attorney
General. has been made in a signed
tatement by Castor B. Means,
ormer department of justice agent,
I'd star witness for the Daugherty
INVESTIGATORS, according to a copy of
statement made public at his home
i5re Sunday by Mr.. Daugherty.
The Means statement was incorpo-
@ted in letter sent by Mr.. Daugh-
mty to John w. Davis, the Demo
ratio nominee for president. in
which the former attorney general
axes the candidate to task for state
nents which Daugherty's letter says
Havis has made in address through
nut the country Suggesting improp-
. conduct by me in my official ca.
acity." The letter was dated Sep
ember 10.
Senator Burton K Wheeler, CT
Montana, prosecutor of the commit
ee, now vice presidential candidate
n the La Toilette ticket, is charged
2 the Means statement with having
put this tissue of lies" into the
mouth of Means ''and the majority
d other Witnesses
These witnesses and myself were
ersuaded to make these false state
nents' continues the Means state
cent '5y Senator Wheeler under
hreat of indictment in some cases
nd by promises of gain and aid in
tnerS.
1.-The testimony given before the
Wheeler committee by RoXie Stin-
on, r. Momand, myself and the ma
eority of the other witnesses wa:
tothing but tissue of hes put IL
he months of these witnesses by
enator Wheeler, primarily to con-
lund and discredit the department
Justice and the administration,
he Means statement declares.
The Means statement was made in
Tashineto on September IL, &C
ording tie Nr. DaugherY, who said
was given to him voluntarily. Ac-
or6ino TO the former attorney gen
raj, Means now is in secluslon pre-
,arine additional data concerning
lis former false testimony. MY
)aucherty left kis Columbus nome
h,nday without announcing his des-
nation.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 22.-Gas-
On B. Means denies signing the al
.ged affidavit repudiating of ms teS-
imonv against Daugherty given be
ore the Wheeler committee.
JOLIET. H.; Sept. 22.-President
Coolidge and the Republican na1loii@l
committee are involved III the DauS II
rty attempt to discredlt the recent
Investigation of the department OF
justice. Senator Burton h. Wheeler
declared he had been Informed today.
m a. statement issued aboard MS
special car on the way to Blooming
on from Chicago, Senator wheeler
declared.
IL talked with CASTOR B. Means
nv long distance telephone to Wash
ngton and he told me that he would
expose to our investigating commit
lee the circumstances surrounding
lis alleged statement to Attorney
General Daughterty in which Means
epudiated his previous testimony be-
ore the committee
"Means declared that he did not
Wish to make it public except before
he committee, because it involved
President Coolidge and the Repub-
lean national committee.
81 told him to see Senator Ashurst,
member of our committee, now IN
Washington, and Immediately tell
kshurst the whole story of how
Oaugherty got the letter from him.
means also mentioned letter
= Fpich he said had been written to
!iifW by Daugherty. In this letter,
lie facts of the alleged reputation
which Means has now denied are full
Y set fourth.
Means said he had been dealing
With Blain Coan, who previously had
een mixed up in this case.
Il received confirmation of Means
tatement from Theodore Tiller,
Washington newspaper correspon
lent, who talked with me on the
lhone from Washington after having
leen up all night with Means. He
aid that Means told him also that he
lad facts duplicating President Cool
ige and the Republican national
COMMITTEES +"