New Britain herald., 1927-11-05
SINCLAIR WARRANT IS STILL HELD UP
Evidence Government Is Not Through With Oil King

! Washington, Nov. (UP)-Jury
 tampering conspiracy indictments
 against Harry r. Sinclair, million
 are oil man, and his lieutenant. X.
 Mason Day, are generally expected
 from the grand jury next week.
 With a. warrant charging tamper-
 ing against Sinclair still withheld
 from service today, it was made
 clear that the government is not vet
 through with him. The grand jury continued its investigations today.
 The government maintains that
 Sinclair, Day and A. Sheldon Clark,
 a. sinclair Oil company official, are
 the prlnclpals in an alleged plot
 which centered around detective
 shadowing of jurors in the recently collapsed Fall-Sinclair oil conspiracy
 trial.
 Sinclair, Day, Sinclair's debonair international representative, and
 others were named yesterday, in a complaint charging jury tamperine conspiracy a crime carrying max mum punishment of six years in
 federal prison.
 Day was released on 5000 bond after waiving examination. 4 war rant for Sinclair's arrest was with held from service because he is free on bail and obtainable by federal authorities, on two other charges.
 Clark. a vice-president of the Sin clair Refining company, is to ap- pear before the grand jury early next week. He was in Washington during the trial. and, according to Assistant L. $. Attorney Neil Burll. inshaw. was "a principal" along with Sinclair and Day in hiring Burns detectives to shadow jurors sitting in judgment on Sinclair and former Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall. charged with conspiracy to de- fraud the government in the Teapot Dome lease.
 Fall meanwhile suffered a break down at his hotel just as he was preparing to return to his New i Mexico home to recuperate for the retrial of the case January 16. Con- dition of the former cabinet mem- Der was said by physicians to be serious. One lung was badly con- gested.
 | Burkinshaw prepared again to call | C. G. Buddy, manager of the Burns sleuths. before the grand jury of 22 men and one young woman. Buddy so far has not claimed immunity and has answered all questions, . Burkinshaw said.
 1 Indications were that the next weeks developments would add further sensations to the rapidly mounting pile of evidence and l charges brought forward by the government. In addition to Clark, William J. Burns, detective head. and his son and Secretary w. Sher- man Burns, were to appear with records of their company disclosing what connection Sinclair may have had with them.
 Many other subpoenas have been issued. The fact that these sub i poenas command the appearance forthwith of the various persons named, caused District Attorney Peyton Gordon to keep the grand i jury in session today. instead of re- cessng from Friday until Monday as is customary.
 Appearance of jurors before the grand jury, along with testimony of the five Burns operatives held here, two of Sinclair's chauffeurs, and others, indicates the government is 1 inquiring into all angles of the all legged activities of surveillance and i tampering.
 | Meanwhile, the case of Edward J. Kidwell, juror No. II. charged with 1 saying he expected to gain by an ac- quittal verdict and would be sur priscd if he didn't get a car as long as this block" was virtually drop ped by the government and grand l jurors.
 1 The government attorneys have released him from subpoena, sub | ject to recall. but so far nothing has ! been made public disclosing any sin ister connection with the jury-tam- pering charges.
 Kidwell. however, is still subject to citations for contempt of court as result of his freedom of speech while juror. He will be liable to nishment-possibly a jail sentence on this count until the court term is ended, if Justice Frederick |" Siddons sees fit to act.
 Government subpoenas for the new Fall Sinclair conspiracy trial were prepared and sent forth today all over the nation and to Honolulu and France, to bring back the wit nesses who are to rttrace the stories they told in the last three weeks. In addition. an attempt also is being made to obtain testimony Of H. M. Blackmer and James F. O'Neil, missing key witness in 1 France, who are wanted to tell of | the Continental Trading company, i and whether Sinclair was member of it and entitled to receive some of
 it's liberty bond profits. The gov ernment hopes to prove through them that s23o,500 in bonds which Fall received shortly after he leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair, came di- rectly from Sinclair.
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