Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-15

pOSndS PROBABLY WOulO DS lSSueU OUT
! the incident resulted in another |
brush between him and Mr.. Rowland |
| in which Senator Wheeler again re.
iterated that Mr.. Rowland, the at.
| torney generals counsel would not !
run the investigation.
Senator AshUrst declared that |
| t'the defense might as well leave
wv" that it was not running the
committee, and said he had not
forgotten an Insult delivered last
night here" by Rowland.
The senator added that Mr.. How
land was mot going to run any bluff
| here"
In the preliminaries it developed
that the books of the Midland Ma
tional bank, of which the attorney
generals brother is president, could
not be brought to Washington. An
examiner will be sent to make a re-
port.
Among other things, committee
men want to know whether there
was any attempt on the part Of
friends of the attorney general as
has been suggested in information
reaching the committee, to prevent
Miss Stinson's appearance on the
witness stand.
Liberty Bonds Traced
Other information sought from
Miss Stinson today related to $4,000
in Liberty bonds which Smith was
said to have had here in safety
deposit box. Committee members
said they were prepared to produce
a witness as to the source Of the
| stock.
Before the committee met today
Attorney General Daugherty issued
another statement declaring the in
vestigation could be fully and
finally disposed of in a week or ten
days" if only pertinent inquiries"
were made.
The attorney general also wrote
Chairman Brookhart protesting
against issuance of committee sub
poenas for CASTOR B. Means and
Thomas B. Fielder, on the ground
that they would receive immunity
under indictment pending against
them at New York.
Daugherty's Statement
The attorney generals statement
follows:
II am adhering to my policy of
saying nothing for publication for
the present regarding the alleged in
VestigatiOn OF the official action of
the attorney general and the depart
ment of justice. I have said moth
ing for publicatio upon that sub
ject since leaving for Chicago on
February 81.
MY attorneys are giving their at
tention to the matter to the extent
that they are permitted to partici-
lpate in the alleged hearing.
| 4fTf nnrfinont ipn11i1,ioS rdio O.
the department of justice and the
official acts of the attorney general
only were made and competent tes-
timony taken, the whole matter
could be fully and finally disposed of
in a week or ten days at the farthest
Anything regarding the investiga-
ton must be given out by my attor-
neys, as L am Occupied constantly
with my duties here"
Miss Stinson, who was the di
| vorced wife of Jesse Smith, of
Washington Courthouse. Ohio. con-
fidante, bumper and friend" of Mr..
/ Daugherty. was brought here by
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, prosecutor" of the inquiry,
after a secret trip to Cleveland to
question her. end the opening of
her story was packed with amazing
insinuations, differences and charges.
Sobbing whenever her narrative
brought before her the memory o.
her former husbands suicide a year
| ago In DaughertyS apartment here
she gave the committee a breath
taking tale of relations between the
two men. Smiths wealth, when he
came to Washington in 1921, to be
with the attorney general, she said,
amounted to approximately $175,-
600 but had increased at the time
of his death to $500
Deal in Fight Films
She testified that her former hus.
a number of transactions and had
told her of other IDEALS" from all
Of which, she insisted, he and
Daugherty were to profit. The at
torney generals name, she said,
was not specifically mentioned. but
she asserted that whenever Smith
had said I'VE" he meant Daugherty
and himself, and she frequently
used they" in referring to the same
two men.
Smith at one time, she testified,
told her that "we' expected about
$1S0,000 in profits if exhibition of
motion pictures of the Carpenter
Dempsey fight could be arranged.
and on another occasion, she said,
her former husband entrusted to
her for sale, rs shares of White
Motors stock, telling her "they' had
obtained 1T without cost. Smith, she
added, also had come into posses
sion of a number of shares Of the
Pure Oil company. of Ohio. She was
on the point of speaking about "a
| mysterious green house on X street"
when she was relieved from further
testimony until today.