Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-25

! to be attorney general"
Asked what Mr.. Daugherty had to
| do with lannon's alleged selection.
| Miss StinSOn continued:
AT this Chicago convention, Jake
| Hamon did not go as delegate for
| Harding from Oklahoma but through
friends and personality and strong
armedness and doggedness, Mr..
Daugherty did this for Harding, and
| it was some way they got Jake
| Hamon on his side, and some other
people. Mr.. Daugherty had the
courage to go into this private con-
| ference at 2 o'clock in the morning,
which settled the affair, absolutely
| that Harding was to be presented as
the dark horse.
The way Mr.. Daugherty express
ed It, that he got word or under
stood they were doube-crossing him
and he took his nerve in his hand
and went into this secret conference.
Anyway the deal was made and that
was at 80 o'clock in the morning.
Smith was not in the secret confer
ence. He could not go there. Mr..
Daugherty was in.
Woman Breaks Down
Often today, especially when re
plying to Daugherty's charges, Miss
Stinson broke down entirely. Tears
streamed down her face as she sob
bed her replies to the blackmail and
other charges and recited details of
the last days and death of Jess
Smith. She declared Smith was ZEN
meshed" by Daugherty and feared
exposure.
Daugherty was charged by Sena-
tor Wheeler during the examination
with having done IAN indecent and
unmanly thing" in attacking Miss
StniSOn.
IF he had the slightest bit of
shame in him or the slightest bit of
manhood said Senator Wheeler,
The would retract the statement he
has made.
The senator added that "the least
President Coolidge could do would
be to suspend Daugherty from office
during the investigation and charg-
ed that the great power of the de-
partment of justice was being used
to tkWart the committee. Former
Senator Chamberlain of the DauSh-
erty counsel replied that the attorney
generals lawyers had had no oppor-
tunity to cross examine Miss StinsOn
Or other important witnesses, nor TO
call any for Mr.. Daugherty. IL this
had been possible, he said "the at
torney general might not possibly
have found it necessary to make that
statement"
Contrary to the usual custom since
| the inquiry began, there was no
| statement issued stOnight by Mr..
| Daugherty nor the department of
| Justice commenting on he days pro
| ceedings.
In countering Mr.. Daugherty's
blackmail and other charges against
| her, Miss Stinson said she had been
| threatened with arrest in Cleveland
in conference with Fink, a man
named Ellis and Samuel Ungerleider,
a prominent Cleveland broker. She
said she had laughed off the threat,
and told NJ. S. Daugherty, brother
| of the attorney general, that she
proposed to give to the Investigate
| ing committee the Information she
! had from Jess Smith.
Calls Charge Silly
The witness told this part Of her
story reading from an account made
| a few days ago, she said, from notes
| taken at the time Of the Cleveland
episode month ago. Senator Jones,
| Republican, Washington, pressed
vigorously for production of the
| original notes. Miss Stinson said
| she thought she had torn them up,
| but would produce them if possible.
Just utterly false said Miss
Stinson, of Daugherty's charge thar
she had sought to capitalize her
! silence"
utterly false and impossible, "
she added of the attorney generals
| charges that she and Fink occupied
a room together in Cleveland
hotel.
She went on to say that Samuel
Ungerleider told her that the man
Ellis had made an affidavit about
some fabulous sum- think he said
$3.50 ,OO0-which I was to receive
for giving out information about
this situation.
ELLIS. as Mr.. Ungerleider told
me" she continued, was to set 20
per cent of the money, the remain
der to be split between Fink and
myself.
Il said to him: If you have both
their words for this, l should think
it is true. Do as you please,
don't know anything about their
business, only nay own, and l am
not interested. Ii was the slightest.
most bungling, child-like thing that
| ever heard. and it amused me a
lot"
Later, Ungerleider told her, Miss
Stinson said. that the affair was
closed" and that she would not
hear Of it again, adding that he had
| TO talk pretty strong to those fell
! lows over there, but it Is all right
now"
Ungerleider added, She said, that
'the only thing that saved Fink
was his telling me outside your door
that you had nothing TO do with It. '
They threatened me with the
bars" said Miss Stinson, If I did
not promise to say nothing detri-
! mental or give out any information
i about Harry NJ. Daugherty."
NJ. S. Daugherty was present in
| Cleveland during her troubles there,
the witness declared, and she after
ward met him in Columbus ard told
him that she intended TO tell ny
story under subpoAaa IN Washing
ton.
Visit tn Cleveland
Her visit to Cleveland, Miss Sin