Evening star., 1924-03-22

| pend MIN from once.
II was unfair to the witnesses
! and unfair to the public" Senator
| Wheeler proceeded. for the Attorney
| General to be in Office.
Prcnndent Set by Jaeksss.
Senator Chamberlain said that
democratic precedents, set by Andrew
Jackson, justified Mr.. Dausherty's re-
| tention. He asked that Mrs. Willie
brandt be given opportunity to speak.
Mrs. WiIlebrandt said she wanted
| to call attenti ton to the fact that she
i on one occasion only for collecting g
evidence against bootiesgins.
Senator Wheeler recalled Miss
Stinson.
Since you were on tho witness
stand" he began. you have received
some letters and you desire to make
a statement?"
Wasn't His Wife.
First, I'd like to state I'm hero
| alone and without counsel" she said.
I'd like to take up Mr.. Daugherty's
disappointed woman because jess
Smith didn't make me his sole heir.
| his wife"
| Ihe Daugherty statement referred
70 ner as "an angry woman" and "a
| tallze her silence"
| That's utterly false" she went on.
| People offered me money to give
them leads about il. and / refused. y
no onered you money" Senator
tWheeler asked ="
Seen by Reporter.
! Well. a young man presented him
self at my door and said he was from
J the Associated Press" Miss Stinson
went on, "and that he represented the
citizen and wanted to interview me
| about Teapot Dome. He told me he
knew about an account l had with
| Cngerleider and Sinclair Oil and that
l was in litigation with the Daug-
hertys"
Miss stinson said she asked him
who sent him to her. His name was
| IVly Johnson.
He was sent from Washington. he
sald: and had five or six people 10 ir :
told him if l knew anything |
| Wouldnt give 1t to man at my door
| He said, Miss Stinson, II you'll
Just give me a lead. I'll give you
| 4 laughed at him, saying that I
could use a thousand dollars" She
had told Johnson. even IL she knew
anything" she wouldn't tell il. She
! concluded.
Talk. With Jess Smith.
The last evening Jess Smith spent
with me he cautioned me not to talk
and spent the whole time telling me
what bank books to destroy" Miss
Stinson went on.
The man was in fear-he was in
! constant fear for six months. He
warned me not to go out at night. -
- hate to abuse confidence" said
MISS Stinson. Il am doing it TO
sho% you tnat Jess Smith was en-
;meshed and entangled."
| MeShed and tangled by whom?'
| ny the man to whom he held his
great loyalty" Miss Stinson went on
J The man who is using his great
| power to terrorize and intimidat te
witnesses
; Who'is the man. Senator Asburst.
democrat, Arizona, put in.
| Harry DauGherty,'' she said
In controlled, but fearful language.
sne sad she was being follower
at home we're being listened to,
t Denies Hotel story.
I'll admit I'm nervous" "sMiss stin-
son said.
Taking up charge OF the Daugh-
erty statement as to her conduct with
Fink, the witness said:
! The insinuation of Harry Daueh-
ertx that occupied room with this
man is false and impossible
On finding her name wrongly regis
| tered, Miss Stinson said she had re-
4 nff Il.
humiliation to me-"
| Was Fink ever your agent for
any purpose or kind" Senator Wheel
! Absolutely not" Miss stinson said
She went on reading from notes.
! Fink had introduced her to man
! named Ellis, she said.
AS she was in her room, Fink came
TO her door and told her that we are
anti.ioms dnuet arrest for registering under a
He said 1 was going to be behind
.ne nars unless ] promised to tell
nnthing m against Harry Daugherty,"
Miss Stinson went on. She said she
had laughed. "He was so excit,d
and SO jumbled up I couldn't under
i stand =.
Called Up Broker.
| Fink told hsr they were holding
Ellis" and that she was in danger.
He called up Samuel Ungerieider.
broker, she went on, and. told him
L can't make this woman understand
the seriousness of things"
! The events all occurred in a C1eva-
| land hotel, she went on. Ungerleide-
came up to her room, she said, and
told her that he didn't understan d
much ABOUT II. but it seemed there
! Daugherty."
"Ungerieider told me that wouid
be behind the bars" she went on.
Il told him to take me, that this was
was pacing up and down. the room"
! Ungerleider said, she recounted.
that Fink aAd Ellis were being held
under $4,000 bond" and pointing to
Fink, said that he is so scared he
Will testify to anything"
! Wanted Her Promise.
Il asked UngerIeider why Nal
Daugherty or Harry Daugherty, or
whoever was engineering the con-
spiracy. didn't come over themselves -
she went on, "and Underisider said
they just want your promise not to
talk about Harry Daugherty.'
She told Unserieider that srhey
couldn't stron-arm her" and that
| there isn't going to be q. convenient
! bullet through my brain" and that
| she would testify in Washington.
Ellis, Miss Stinson said she heard,
| was to make an AFFIDAVIT that she had
asked s150.0oo from Daukher:y.
! Ungerleider later told her, she said,
E; that Fink told me. outside the door,
you had nothing 20 do with IT." and
| that this was the only thing that
! saved Fink"
! Couldn't See Him.
( This was on the 21st Of February.