The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-03-19
NEWS review Of
Current EVENTS
Sensational Evidence Heard
by the Daugherty Investi-
CATION Committee.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD

,
HARRY DAUGHERTY, still at
torney general of the United
rE2tes despite the predictions Of Wash
@g'"n s expert guessers, is now under
&SIng formal investigation as to his
5SIrial conduct by the senate commit
1Fc appointed for that purpose. Brook
@2rt Of Iowa is the chairm1n and
wheeler of Montana the prosecutor"
@HHe Daugherty is represented by for
I@r Senator Chamberlain and Paul
E1yyland.
Hiss ROXle StinSOn, divorced wife
sf Jesse Smith, the attorney generals
confidential aid who committed sui
eide last May, was the first witness.
su0 she gave a lot of sensational testi-
nsF1ny which involved Daugherty in
EE.any questionable transactions. Miss
EEsnson said Smith, after their divorce.
supported her and conided in her con-
s%tzsntly. Among the important state
usents she made on the first day Of
GAG hearing were:
Eat Smith told her that Eve"
meaning, she insists, Smith, Daugh-
SE1y and perhaps others, were involved
An a deal to sell rights to exhibit
Dsmpsey% Carpenter fight pictures,
switch Smith expected to yield a profit
% SlS0,OOO. The transportation of fight
EsCtuTes in interstate Is for
aadden by law.
Ehat Smith and Daugherty came
Cato possession Of q considerable
amount OF White Motor Car 0mpany
s10ck certificates In blank, twenty-five
s1ares Of which she sold quickly and
quietly" on instructions from Smith,
and that Smith told her the stock cost
as nothing.
That Smith and Daugherty came
sntO the possession Of shares OF Pure
on company stock, which Smith like
Else said cost "us" nothing.
That Smith had two blind" stock
Brokerage counts In the firm of Sam
u0ei Ungerleider & Co. at Columbus,
through which he did considerable
speculation.
That once when she urged Smith
90 stop specializing because he was
3osing money, he told her he had just
deposited $4,000 Of eastern money"
In the bank of Nal Daughprty. brother
-sf the attorney general, in Washing
O Courthouse, 10 protect his
<Smlth's) losses.
That Smith told her about a mystic
rious green house" in X street, near
abe Department OF Justice, where
they met to discuss their deals.
That Daugherty and Smith we're in
EeparGble in all these transactions and
that Smith never acted without the
E1Il knowledge and authority Of the
attorney general.
That Smith disliked the life Of in.
4rlgue he led in Washington, but said
ne would stick it out. because of his
friendship for Daugherty and that
prior to his suicide, he lived in con
slant fear Of "being closed dow
zspon."
Secretary MELONS name was brOugh
Znto the Daugherty Investigation b!
Castor B. Means, former Department
Of Justice agent, who said that 70
President Harding he investigated mat
sers connected with certain permits
AaV1Eg to do with violations Of tn,
VOIstead act.
Il gave Captain Seattle thousands o
4oTlars to catch him" (MellOn), Mean
@eStifed. Seattle was formerly a De
partment Of Justice Investigator VIII
vas active in pressing for investigation
Of air craft scandals.
Also at President Harding's Request
sEeans testified, he investigated Ser
atOr Caraway. and also Senator LaFO
BETTE after the latter had been agitar
zag investigation Of the Teapot Dom
scandal.
Means testified that in Februar!
1922, In the old Bellevue hotel I
Washington he received from "a ia
representing Mitsui n Company
100000 to stop government prOsecI
fion in the Standard Aircraft cas-
and that he turned tie money owe
20 she late Jess Smith, Attorney Ger
.qral Daugherty's bumper and friend