The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-18
HIGH NAMES MENTIONED INFILMTALE Daugherty Definitely
 Named By Agent
 Fired By Burns MILAN HENCHMAN
 LARGELY QUOTED Attorney General Hits Back With Threat Of
 Blackmail Action CAN PROVE, HE SAYS,
 OFFER WAS MADE Harding And Hughes Alleged To Have Discussed Transportation Law At Mclean Home
MILAN HENCHMAN
 LARGELY QUOTED
CAN PROVE, HE SAYS,
 OFFER WAS MADE

WASHINGTON, March 17.-Attor- ney General Daugherty's foes continued today to pile in testimony to connect him directly with the prize fight film conspiracy and the Attorney General again struck back, this time with grave charges of blackmail.
 The most direct testimony yet given before the Senate investigating com mittee, in effort to connect the Att torney General directly with the con spiracy to show motion pictures of the Carpentier-D Dempsey prize fight in viola ton of federal law while various goats" were prosecuted and fined small sums, came from G. 0. Holdridge, a former department of justice agent, who presented witnessed report of con- yersation he said he had with Jap Muma. already identified in the in- quiry as one of the owners of the film.
 Holdridge quoted Muma as having quoted Attorney Duagherty as having said to him in Washington
 If you put this caross you ought to get a big cut, not less than 50 per cent"
 On vigorous cross-examination by the Attorney Generals counsel, Holdridge, conceded that he had nothing else to substantiate the charge that the At torney General was part of the con- spiraey. Previous testimony has been that Jess W. Smith, the Attorney Generals late friend boasted that i've" could get $180,000 by protecting the fight film owners from prosecution, and that various sums of money were collected for Smith on that account.
 Cites $15O,0OO Offer
 Attorney General Daugherty's attack on his accusers was contained in letter to Chairman Brookhart of the investigating committee. The Attarnex General said that he would prove by James W. Holcomb, Samuel Unger- leider, and Henry T. Ellis of Cleveland and his brother, NJ. S. Daugherty of Washington Court House. Ohio, that the prOsecution's star witness. Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of Jess W. Smith, has offered to turn over her papers and documents for $150,000 and leave the country, and that when that was refused she offered to take $50000.
 These negotiations the Attorney General said he wuold prove by the men he named, and whom he asked to be called as witnesses, took place in Cleveland on February 21, 1924. Miss Stinson herself and A. l.. Fink of Buff falO, the Attorney General charged, sought the meeting which eliminated with conference between Mir. Unger- leider, Miss Stinson and Fink.
 When Ungerleider, speaking for him- self and the others declined to enter into the negotiations, the attorney said his witnesses would prove Miss Stin- son and Fink announced their purpose to go to New York to sell the papers and documents to others.
 Corroborating in many particulars the previous testimony of Gaston B: Means and Fred c. Quimby, Holdridge related a circumstantial story of his investigation of the alleged arrangement by which the fight films were ex- hibited in 1921.
 Muma, correspondent of Edward B. McLean's Cincinnati Enquierer at New York, again emerged from behind the scenes in stellar role. Relating numerous conferences, in his inves- tigation with Muma and others in the film transaction, Holdridge quoted Muma as the principal author of dam aging charges against Attorney General Daugherty and also William J. Burns, chief of the bureau of investigation.
 Chief among the statements credited to Holdridge to Muma and which Hold. ridge finally reported, in June, 1922, to Burns, concerning the fight thiln affair, were
 'The alleged statement by Mir. Daugherty that: TX If you put this across you ought to
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