New Britain herald., 1926-12-20
Declares Dead Man Had Been Appointed by Re- publicans to Collect Two Million Dollars From Bootleggers to Pay Off Party's Debt.
FALL-DOHENY CASE
 FIXED" HE ASSERTS

olu oL MODlIe court proceeding was quoted in the senate today by Senator Heflin, democrat, Alabama, as bearing on his charge that Jess Smith, intimate of former Attorney General Daugherty, sought during the Harding administration to col lect funds from bootleggers.
 Wanted $2,0OO,00O
 The Alabama senator quoted the court record as 1t was read before secret meeting of the senate judi ciary committee lst April. Accord ing to this record. Aubrey Boyles. then United States district attorney for southern Alabama, told tho court that friend of his named Boykin had told him Smith was seeking to raise $2,000,000 to pay off a republican national committee debt and planned to have the men in the liquor business and the brew cries contribute.
 Boyles himself was on the stand before the judiciary committee when this section of the court record was read. and he denied that he had testified as the record showed be- fore the Mobile court.
 Answers Challenge
 Senator Heflin made his speech as result of a request from Federal District Attorney Buckner in New York. that he present any evidence tending to support his charge in the senate last week that Smith was murdered and that his death pre- vented the public from ever learn ing the inside story of Corruption" while Daugherty was attorney gen. eral. Daugherty is to go on trial next month in New York on a con- spiracy charge.
 Boyles' version of the story told by Boykin, as 1t appears in the court record read before the judi ciary committee follows:
 Data Of Record
 "He said he had a three quarter Of an hour long distance telephone message from Jess Smith.
 He said You know Secretary Mellon loaned the republican na- tional committee s5,o00.000; only s3,O00,00O has been repaid. There is a deficit of s2,oO0,o0O. Jess Smith is charged with getting up that money.
 "'The plan is to have the men In the liquor business, and the brewer ies contribute to this fund. United States attorneys in some places have been arranged with. They will be expected to collect from the boot ieggers the money and contribute a certain portion of 1t to that fund.-
 Repeats Murder Charge
 The Alabama senator again told the senate that Smith was murder cd in Daugherty's apartment here, and that the coroner's verdict of suicide was wrong.
 He knew too much" Hehin said. They had to get ride of him."
 Hefin added that he didn't know whether the s5,OO0,00O said to have been loaned the repub .ican com- mittee by Secretary Mellon was Melons money or the govern ment's."
 T know that sS,o0O.oOO was brought in to Mellon, and Jess Smith was assigned to get the other s2,OOO,OOO."
 Will Keep At It
 It was part of the plan, he continued tn annninta1 United States marshal In southern Alabama who would act for Smith and help collect "the loot" T am going to keep on until this thing is laid before the American people," shouted Hetlin. There Is no self respecting man in the senate who objects to what said the other day about the Fall-Doheny verdict"
 T take exception to that state ment,' interrupted Senator Bruce, democrat, Maryland. T believe the judge in the case was an honorable, upright man."
 T don't know the judge" re- turned Hetlin. He might be a very intelligent man but he was appoint ed by the Harding administration, and should have never sat In this case.
 There isn't an intelligent, honest citizen In the country, outside of the senate, who has not grave sus- picions about this case.'
 Attacks Fall-Doheny.
 Senator Hetlin then enlarged upon his charge that Albert B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny never would have been brought to trial on the oil
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