The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
Bill Fallon To Comeback;
 Didn'tSqueal, So He's Free
Jury Voices Loathing For Rat By Verdict
 Banquet Planned For Lawyer

Bill fought grand fight for this pair of swindlers. He was on the point of ort-smafting the law and getting them loose when the yellow stripes on their respective dorsal areas broadened and colored them all over. Fuller and Nc Gee squealed on Bill Fallon and instead of going to prison as they should have, because they had renounced him, plead ed guilty and asked for sentence, they were housed in a big hotel and kept on the fat of the land. Bill was groggy but game. His curly golden head which has tossed amid so many pitched bat ties in the criminal courts of the Metro lis, was gory but not subdued.
 Up to that time New York had with held judgment on Fuller. and McGee. They might be swindlers but they might be right guys. There are lots of amiable larcenists along Broadway, such as Dapper Don Collins, the gun-man, who suffer no loss of social favor, because they turn to crime. But the sin of squealing is unforgivable. Murder is only murder in New York but squealing is souealing and Fuller and McGee had squealed on their friend and defender, Bill Fallon. They said that Fallon had bribed Charlie Rendigs, a juror in one of Fallon's cases. Rendigs squealed on Fallon, telling a detailed story of the bribery as he claimed it had been accom- -plished. $e -
 Fallon was indicted.
 Bill Will Be Good
 Last week Bill was tried in the fed eral court. It was most remarkable saI that the West Virginia judge who had been called in to hear the case made at least one reversible error every hour charged with bribing Rendigs. Ren- digs testified against him.. admitting that he had received a bribe, a crime for which he had already been con victed and for which he must serve a Gee testified against Bill. They went on. the stand to repeat the squeal they had made in the privacy of the grand jury room.
 At any point of the trial, Fallon could have turned rat, and squealed He knew things that could have blasted the high hats off many of the city's proudest citizens. But he was game.
 . A typical New York jury heard the case. ! They were men of good intelli- gence and decent reputation. They did not wish to countenanee corruption of jurors. But they could not take the work of rat or pig against man who had the courage to stand his trial with out squealing. They disbelieyed Ken digs, who had absolutely no reason to lie, because he was squealer. They discounted the squealing of Fuller and MeGee. They acquitted Bill Fallon.
 After this narrow escape of Bills it was natural that his friends among the reporters should advise him for Gods sake, Bill; make good from now on."
 Well" said Bill as he left the dirty old federal building and stepped out into the starlight on lower Broadway where the electric. signs had long since blinked out, well, I'm going to be good boy. must never bribe a juror. I understand that isn't considered nice"
 One of the lads along Broadway has just called up your correspondent.
 Big show Monday night,v he said Big dance and all that kind of .busi- ness. A lot of the boys are getting tip racket. Don't miss ita Its in honor of Bill Fallon. There won't be q rat there"