Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-27
Divorced Wife Dead
Pal Attorney Cen
eral Again Star Wit
ness at Senate In
quiry New Phase
Will Have Executive
Consideration Com
mittee-Grilling Ex-
pected Today .-...

Washington. March 26.--Senate in
,ostigation into the Administrations OF
Attorney General Daugherty was con-
tinucd today at another public session
with bare mention of $4,000, eee
made in few days by five men" I'M
named. through stock market deal
in Sinclair OIL" as the most salient
feature.
AS before. Roxie Stinson, the d.
vorccd wife OF Jess W. Smith,. who
shot himself in the attorney generals
apartment last summer, was the star
witness. Her story, replete with men,
tions Of considerable sums of money
passed to her by the dead man during
the two years of his association with
MIR. Daughcrty. was filed out by the
Introduction of scores of kilograms
taken by the committee from files in
Washington, Palm Beach and Washing
ton Courthouse, Ohio. and a few let
tors from Smith to her. '.s-
The wire messages. some of them
trivial and others obscure in terms
and references, were signed by per-
sons whose names in some cases have
been heard. and in others unheard,
during the previous progress of the
committees recora.
or the s33,000,O00 deal, Miss Stin-
son said she had been told by Jess
Smith before his death. to whom she
ha cfa nj hat L.
Mr. Daugherty were ''sore" because
they were not "in on it," When she
protested unwillingness to tell of IL
further or to name the men Smith de-
clared to have made the profit, there
Z was moment Of committee confer
encc and an announcement by Chair
| man Brookhart that decision as to
whether the inquiry into that ques-
ton would be pressed must await the
committees executive consideration.
Summed up. Miss Stinson's account
drawn out by senators was that Smith
came to Washington worth perhaps
$4,000; that he gave here several
thousand dollars" that he "lost heayi-
! ly' in stock market transactions; that
he paid his half share OF $4,000 per
year in living with Attorney General
; Daugherty, and that he died with
S214,O0O in assets listed by the pro-
| bate court. Whether he had more at
{ death she said she did not know.
All through her examination. which
brought her to the stand for the third
time. Paul Rowland and former Sem
! ator Chamberlain, Mr.. Daugherty's at
| torneys. sat waiting for an opportuni-
ty TO cross-examine. Their opportu-
nifty would come tomorrow. the chair
man said. when Senator Wheeler DEM
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tation of evidence, might be expected
to return after an irdisposition which
had delayed the Proceedings for sew
! eral days. '7-'-'
Outside Of the committees record,
, Secretary Hughes sent to the chair
| man letter saying that Howard Man
nington OF Ohio now in Paris, intend
ed to start for the United States
! March 20. - had been named In tes-
| timony as a friend of the attorney
generals who received 81 a case for
! each permit to withdraw liquor from
bonded warehouses which got into the
| hands of New York drug compan MES.
ostensibly for the bootlegging trade.
Mr.. Daugherty called at the White
House twice during the day, hut de-
clined to discuss the visits, and tho
justice department refrained from
comment on the days procedure.
Miss Stinson sometimes smiled and
sometimes wept as she read the letters
sent her by Smith during the two years
before his death. some of whIch-kho
said had contained checks. soma dt75fts
! and some $500 bills. He was, she said,
mice about money" and his communi-
cations with her wero personal and
often affectionate. The telegraphic
files revealed also that Smith during
two years had given her n complete
record of the attorney generals uncer-
tain and sometimes gravely affected
health. During February and March,
1923, Z. B. Mclean tho Wasl1ington
publisher, 1t was revealed by messages
produced at the hearing. had sent
many Geographic inquiries to Smith no
the subject Of the attorney generals
health.