The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-03-23
Miss S1IVS()N
BARES DETAILS
OF HAMON Plan

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tcsntiusss frsm Pass oa0 nj
nesses nor to call any for. Mr.. Daugh.
erty. If this had been possible, no
said, "the attorney general might not
| possibly have found it necessary to
make that statement" Sr'i1f:
No Rejoinder Issued 1T.
Contrary to the usual custom, aimee
the inquiry began, there was no state
ment issued tonight by Mr.. Daugherty
nor the department of justice comment
ing on the days proceedings.
In countering Mr.. Daugherty'a. black.
mail and other charges against her,
Miss Stinson said she had been threat
cned with arrest in Cleveland in con-
ference with Fink, man named, Ellis
and Samuel Ungerieider, a prominent
Cleveland broker. She said she had
laughed off the threat and told, NJ. s.
Daugherty, brother of the attorney gen.
eral, that she proposed to give to the
investigating committee the information
she had from Jess Smith. The, wit
ness told this part of her story, reading
from an account made a few days ago,
she said, from news taken at the time
of the Cleveland episode. Senator
|
! vigorously for production Of the orig.
inal notes. Miss Stinson said she
thought she had torn them up but
! would produce them if possible.
| The Chicago convention, matter was
taken up with Miss Stinson by Senator
Wheeler and she said she had heard 4'the
whole deal discussed from beginning to
end" and that Jake damon himself had
talked of it with her.. When .Hamen
visited Smith and Daugherty at Wash
ington Courthouse, Miss Stinson said,
Hamon declared: ,iam
you know it is understood / am to
have a cabinet position" s,ia
''Jess had also told me that that was
the PLAN" Miss Stinson added. Neither
| what did they say that Daugherty
and the reply was: s.A s4os
"Was All Slated S.a
'That was all slated, that he was to
be Attorney General" t1 y
Asked what Mr.. Daugherty had to
do with lannon's alleged selection, Miss
Stinson said:
| "At the Chicago convention Jaks
Hamon did not go as a delegate for
Harding from Oklahoma, but through
friends and personality and strong
armedness and doggedness, Mr.. Dadsh.
erty did this for Harding, and It'll was
some way they got Jake Hamon ION
his side, and some other people. Mr.
Daugherty had the courage to 90 into
this private conference at 2 o'clock In
the morning, which settled affairs abb
solutely that Harding was to be pre-
scented as the dark horse, ~ 49,
''The way Mr.. Daugherty expressed
| it, that he got word or understood they
were double-crossing him and he took
bis nerve in his hand and went into
this secret conference. Anyway, the
deal was made and that was at 2 80
o'clock in the morning. Smith was not
in the secret conference. He could not
go there. Mr.. Daugherty was. in
"Just utterly FALSE" said Miss Stin-
son of Daugherty's charge that she had
sought to Capitalize her silence"
utterly False" IA
utterly false and. impossible" she
added to the attorney generals charges
that she and Fink occupied a room to.
| gether in O. Cleveland hotel.
She went on to say that Samuel
Ungerleider told her that the man 81
lis had made an affidavit about some
| fabulous sum- think he said $780,
000-which was to receive for giving
out information about this situation
ELLIS, as Mr.. ungerleider told me- y
she continued, was to get. 20 per, cent
of the money, the remainder to be split
between Fink and myself.
Il said to him: If you have both
their words for this, should think il
Is true. Do as you please don't Know
anything about their business only my
own, and l am not interested It was
the slightest. most bungling childiike
thing that l had ever heard and it
amused me a lot f'F2
Later Ungerleider told her. Miss
Stinson said, that the affair was
closed" and that she would not Aear
of it again, adding that he had to
talk pretty strong to those fellows over
there but it is all right now" 9,,
Threatened With Jail o.;
They threatened me with the, bars, !"
said Miss Stinson, ''if / did not, prom
Use to say nothing detrimental or give
out any information about Harry NJ.
Daugherty." ~
NJ. >. Daukherty was present in
Cleveland during her troubles there,
the witness declared, and she after
ward met him in Columbus and told
him that she intended to tell her story
under subpoena in Washington. so
Her visit to Cleyeand, Miss Stinson
said, was in response to telephone call
from Fink that he wished to discuss
big deal" This later developed to
be relative to organization Of the, Ideal
Rubber company, according to Miss
Stihson. Fink reserved a room for her
at the Hollenden hotel, she said, and
met her there: yBf;xn
Stating that Fink had left her room
about II p. M, after she had become
.'incensed" over his disclosure of her
being registered under q fictitious
name, Miss Stinson added: S'ts4
"And this base insinuation of Mr..
Harry NJ. Daugherty's that / occupied
that room with this man is utterly
false and impossible"
Miss Stinson said she told iUnfer-
leider when he came to her later that
he could go back to his friends" and
tell them that the whole affair was
a "frame-up" and that If snbp6enaSd
she would go to Washington and tell
everything" elt
Defends Smith 5t...
Continually during her testimony
Miss Stinson reiterated her defense Of
Jess Smith, saying he was completely
in the power Of Daugherty.
"He was enmeshed," ahe =. said,
Through his great loyalty and devo-
ton to an INSCRIPTIONS man, kaiser
like man." 81"
During the last months Of his, life,
Miss Stinson said Smith lived in fear of
being exposed" His last evening
with her, she said was spent in eau
tioning me what not to tell, what books
TO destroy what ma ners To dastnov -