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gotten an insult delivered last night
here" by Howland.
f; Fails to Locate House.
Miss Stinson's testimony started
| with reference to the little green
house on K street" She said she was
| not familiar with Washington and
! would rather not answer questions
| about it.
! 1T was purely personal" she said.
1T is absolutely of no consequence"
| She said she did not know of the pur-
pose of the conference there. but Smith
had told her the house was used for
private conference, where they would
not be disturbed.
| "Do you know who occupied it?" asked
| Senator Moses
| II think it was one of Mr.. McLean's.
I'm not sure about that"
She reiterated, however, that Smith
had told her of meeting the Attorney
4; General there.
Could Meet Privately.
| Smith had told her the Attorney
| General and himself met in the
| greenhouse" because they could meet
! 'privately." She said different SEN
ators and important people" had con-
| ft rences in the house
/ Department of Justice appoint
ments were considered there she said.
! and people making appointments
| went there, she was told.
| Senator Ashurst referred to Col.
! James G. Darden and Miss Stinson
| said she met him in the shack near
| Washington Court House, which the
p, Attorney General, Smith and others
maintained.
! could tell better later" Of the con-
| ferences between Darden and others.
Says Smith Was Partner.
Questioned by Senator Wheeler, Miss
! Stinson answered "Yes" when he asked
if Smith was partner "in these vari-
Gus deals
| OF that, she said, her chief knowl-
edge came from Smith. She said she
knew of a deal" between Daugherty
land Darden.
She said Smith gave Darden s2,400,
and he told her Daugherty gave the
; same amount to Darden.
They had a deal in an oil PROPOSE
tion out west" she said.
Harry Daugherty and Jess Smith put
was something wrong somewhere" she
| continued. 'They did drop Mr.. Dar-
den."
Daugherty was in Columbus. she
| said, when she saw Col. Darden at
"the shack
1
! they were considering"
+, What brought this about was that
! Darden did not measure up Miss
| Stinson said"
Measure up to what?" demanded
Senator AShurSt.
[ "They dropped him." was the answer.
Asks About Fight Funs.
| Senator Wheeler went back to the
carpenter Dempsey fight films. Miss
IStinson said the proposition was that
Illegal violation, and if the films could
lbe transported without prosecution
"they" were to receive s1s0,000.
Whether that was ever consum-
mated. do not know"
! Mr. Smith told her that Daugherty
would see there WAS no prosecution.
! That was the DEAL" she said.
Certain picture companies, un-
! named, she said, were to be in nego-
1 tiation with Smith. he. told her. In
reply to questions she said Smith was
the o-between' for the Attorney
General and picture companies.
OIL stocks Brought Up.
!! A transaction in Pacific Oil stock was
,, then brought up, by Senator Wheeler:
1922. Pacific Oil, Sinclair Oil and Man.
haitian Shirt shares were placed with
, Smiths bankers and afterward taken
away, she said.
Smith withdrew the stocks "sud-
that Smith said the stock was given
to him. Miss Stinson did not know
how Smith got the stock. She thought
There were 200 shares Of Pacific Oil
and 800 of Sinclair.
Smith told her. she said. that the
expenses of the Smith -Daugherty
apartment in Washington were CON
siderably over $4,000"
Tells of Blind Account. :"
''They were interested in things
| jointly, and he thought he could pay
his part from the remunerations," she
continued.
Reverting to a blind" account of
Smiths with the Ungerleider stock
firm. Smith told her, she said that
he kept a blind account because of
his connections with Harry ,Daugh-
erty."
In New York after the Dempsey
fight, Miss Stinson said Smith intro
duced her to Joe Weber, the actor.
She said she overheard q converse
tion between Smith and Weber relat-
ing to a "Mf. Solomon" whom she be-
heved was Weber's brother-in-law.
There was discussion of how they
could get q parole for him." she said.
AS a result of Miss Stinson's testi-
mony yesterday Senator Wheeler Of
Montana, the committee Prosecutor an
nounced he would call Edward B. Nc
Lean, publisher of the Washington Post,
and Nal Daugherty Of Ohio, the Attor-
ney Generals brother.
Among other things. committeeman
want to know whether there was any
attempt on the part Of friends of the
hae