Evening star., 1926-10-09
CASE
Jury IS STILL OUT;
STUDIES RECORDS
Locked Up in Hotel Last
Night After Failing to
Agree at Midnight.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 9.-The II
Jurors who will decide the fate Of
Harry NJ. Daugherty and Thomas w.
Miller reassembled in Federal Court
today to continue the juryroom delib-
erations suspended last night.
Judge Mack arrived in the Federal
Building at 1925, by which time both
the defendants had arrived and were
strolling about the corridors. Daugh-
erty was walking arm-in-arm with
his brother, Nal, president of the
Midland National Bank of Washing
ton Court House, Ohio. With Miller
was his wife, who has been con-
slant attendant at the trial and who
broke into tears during the summa-
ton Of United States Attorney Buck
ner yesterday. This morning she
seemed to have regained complete
control Of her emotions and smiled
In greeting at friends and acquaint-
ances about the courtroom.
Jurors Could Be Seen.
At II o'clock the jurors were still
closeted without having sent out any
word. BY that time some one in the
crowds that thronged the corridors
had discovered that the jurors could
be seen at their deliberations from a
window across a court from the jury
room and a crowd collected there.
The attention of the jurors was
drawn by the close-packed faces
pressed against the opposite window
and the shades of the juryroom win
dows were quickly lowered. Among
those who had watched the jurors be-
fore the shades were drawn was De-
fendant Miller.
The trial. which has lasted five
weeks, reached it's final phase last
night, when Judge Mack charged the
Jury. The II men retired to delib.
crate, but as midnight approached
without a decision, they were sent un-
der guard to a hotel for the night.
Before leaving the court the jurors
called for documentary evidence TO
be delivered to them this mQrning.
Attorneys said it would takes several
hours to read the documents.
Bribery Charge Outlawed.
Daugherty. formerly Attorney Cen
eral, and Miller, formerly alien prop
erty custodian, are accused OF sharing
in a SAL 900 fee to approve a w.
900 900 allen claim against the Govern
ment in 1921. A bribery charge Is out
lawed by the statute Of limitations,
and they were indicted in May with
John T. King, who died a week AFTER
for conspiracy to defraud the Govern
ment Of their best services. The
maximum penalty for this offense is
two years imprisonment or a $4,000
fine, or both.
Federal Attorney Buckner intro
duced So witnesses and the defendants
G. Nearly 800 documents, including
ledgers,f hotel registers, transporta-
ton vouchers, bank and brokerage
records and checks were offered in
evidence. Richard Merton, German
copper magnate, testified that he paid
King, formerly Republican national
committeeman for Connecticut, SAIL
600 for expediting a claim OF his fam
lily for the value of $7.0OO,o00 or stocks
in the American Metals Co., tmpound-
ed when the United States entered
the World War. He said ownership
had been orally transferred to the
neutral Societe Suisse Pour Valeurs
de Metaux just before the United
States declared war.
Merton said that Miller delivered
in person q check for $6.500.00 at
a champagne dinner the German
gave at the Ritz in New York. Next
day Merton collected the rest at a
Dank anu gave hli6 SOS1,VUU ll AlD'
erty bonds, $4,000 already having
been paid him by check.
Three Approved Claim.
Testimony was given that $4,000
Of these bonds found their way to
bank account of Miller's and the
proceeds from $174.000 went to the
Midland National Bank at Washing
ton Court House. Ohio. where Daugh.
erty had an account, with those of
Nal, his brother. and of Jess Smith,
Harry's right-hand man. Testimony
was given that Harry Daugh-
erty had destroyed pertinent bank
records.
It was shown that the claim had
been approved in three days. although
others required much longer as rule.
Three former assistants of Daugh-
erty and Miller-George z. Williams,
Guy E. Golf tnow United States Sena-
tor from West Virginia) and Adnah
r. Johnson-assumed responsibility
for approving the claim.