Evening star., 1924-03-26
$33, 600, 600 OIL DEAL
PROFIT is HINTED BY
MISS ROXiE STlNSON

! UTsSS .lONtI ~ IINS0N
Continued from FIRST Page.)
from the one giving Ss5,o00 to Attor-
ney General Daugherty.
/ 1T was the duty of those who had
charge to file this for the courts in
| spection," said Senator Ashurst.
Miss Stinson said this will. though
considered Invalid, had been shown to
| the courts.
written by Smith to Miss Stinson.
dated in December, 1922, telling her
| to "sell White Motor and hold Pure
Oil" 1t spoke of the Daugherty inn
House. and said everybody was full
of fight
Wrote Senate Was Stacked.
About Christmas. 1922. Smith told
her the Senate was stacked" to pre-
vent Daugherty's impeachment,
| On January 8, 1923. Smith wrote
from Washington that he was coming
to Ohio with the Attorney General.
for "an unexpected visit" A later
letter in affectionate terms told her
mot to worry about finances, but let
me know"
| On February 6. Smith. in Washing
ton, wrote to Miss Stinson at Miami
Beach. Fla. telling of the illness OF
Attorney General Daugherty.
He sees no one except the nurse
and myself the letter said. He in
closed a check.
How much was that check for"
Chairman Brookhart asked,
/ II don't member-seYeral hundreu
dollars" she said.
! High Cost of ID. c. Living.
su-l; 70 ia
| Senator Ashurst put in. Il think
you said once that Mr.. Smith spent
| a good deal living"
He told me that they-and they
; meant Attorney General Daugherty-
spent about $4,000 a year just to
/ live in Washington" Miss Stinson
said.
ut was much more, this money.
than he had been used to. to gtT1ns sh nton ye" ~
Chairman Brookhart asked.
| "Oh, yes, much more"
Did you ask him where the money
came from?"
when We were together" she said. Il
| never liked to ask him a direct ques-
ton"
She objected to answering, but the
committee pressed the point.
Tells of $rs3,OOO,OOO Deal.
! Well. he told me in the fall of
f1e2o that five men had made s33, ,000,-
| in Sinclair OIL
! Asked further about the s33, 900 600
deal Miss Stinson said she would
rather have the things come out on
! croSs-eXamination."
! Senator Jones questioned her atti-
! tude.
/ "Uuless questions are asked of me-"
she asserted, I'm going to say just
as little as ! can. I'm here because
Senator Wheeler came down to my
house and told me l had to-
/ She turned back to the letters.
Smith wrote her in February, 1928,
that he was blue and depressed
while Attorney General Daugherty
was worrying too much, a bout things
at the Office
| This is getting on my. nerves, the
letter said 81 am afraid / will fly
| to pieces. Keep your own counsel,
and don't you get sick"
Breaks Into Sobs.
I The witness broke into sobs when
Chairman Brookhart read one of
Smiths letters. Gated in 1922. at E
! B. McLeans cottage in Bar Harbor.
/ II am not drifting away" Smith
, said in 1t. He also wrote that Ned
! Mclean and l think so much alike
/ on SO many things the writer liked
: him very much"
.
! hack ward on dates. and the next let
ter was dated October %. 1921. 1t
| was personal. Smith spoke of seeing
t."important men" and going up TO
New York forssconferences several
times. He put a stock certificate IN
this letter for twenty-five shares OF
White Motor. Miss Stinson said.
Losing in stock Deals.
4 was at home. in my apartpIssnt nla, at
! Washington Corners, Miss Stinson
said. and Jess told me he was losing
! large amounts of money on the stock
! market. He SAID he was gong 10
! stop.
| $4,000. 900 OH the stock market IN
i three days 7 asked, Were YOU and
! that's what we are sore about, and
! went on 20 say they were men they
J had been dining with
| I'VE would like to know especially
| if Mclean was one OF these' sald
! Chairman Brookhart.
] Miss Stinson bit her lips and stop
| ped.
: Reluctant TO Testify.
Il don't like to tell for the simple
! reason that l don't like to-, she said.
] Il have my reasons.
Z; Senator Brookhart said the com
+ mittee would take up the question OF
! further evidence as to the names OF
these five men lin executive session.
T, The witness began examining teie,
! grams she received from Smith, and
| there was a reference TO sioV,ooo
You have asked me if I knew
! where Mr. Smith had more money,
! the witness put in. In the sprins OF
; 1923 / was thinking of buying a hotel
in Columbus and the price was 800,
, 900. Jess Smith told me to go ahead
: and buy it, and he never wouid unless
/ he had had the money: 90,
! Senator Jones reverted to the S33,
/ 0OO. 900 deal, and Miss Stlnson sald
five men, mot even Senator
! Wheeler
! Told No One In u. $.
! II never told anybody in the United
Estates any more" she said.
! Chairman Brookhart excused her,
saving Senator Wheeler desired to be
fpresent at the cross examl nation:
: The chairman then began readlng
itelegrams that passed between Smith
and NJ S. Daugherty, f.. B. Mclean
and others. Some of the messages TO
Smith were signed III, and Senator
tBrookhart said it would be SHOWN
later who III" referred to.
| One sent to Mclean at Palm Beach
;on February >, 1898, by Smith, SAID
Daugherty's health was improving.
station to the Attorney GeReral to
! Most of the messages constituted a
imonotonous record of Daugherty S
ILLNESS and recovery, day by day.
/ Reference to Staying.
Smiths kilograms in the latter
| part of February began to show more
| business activities.
| In March there began to be refer
:; ences to the Dorothy King murder
| mystery in New York and to the
| story told the authorities by Draper