The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-23
Contempt Case Ogainst
Burns and Sinclair
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about to bear fruit in the shape OF
! indictments.
Kidwell Not Called
When Gordon appeared before him
today both Siddons and Gordon
agreed that the earliest possible mo-
ment for the appearance of the prin-
cipals in the case should be chosen.
Gordon declined to ask for a con-
tempt case against Juror Kidwell, who
boosted OF the good qualities of de-
PENDANT Sinclair and of Kidwell's
getting an auto as long as this block
out of the case" The district attor-
ney said he might do so later.
Day and Clark Named
Those named in the citations be-
sides Sinclair and Burns are:
H. Mason Day, vice president of
the Sinclair Expectation Co.
A. Sheldon Clark, vice president of
the Sinclair Refining Co.
w. Sherman Burns, Burns son.
Charles Veitsch, manager of the
Baltimore branch of the Burns Agency
and the ''pay-off' man for the Burns
Operatives"
Light Sentences
The maximum penalty for contempt
of court, if adjudgements should be
made, is $1,000 fine and a year in Jail
for all concerned.
Sinclair already has been convicted
in one contempt action. A jury in
Federal Court some months ago found
the millionaire oil magnate guilty of
contempt of the Senate. He is now
at liberty on bond, pending an appeal
to the higher courts. His conviction
in this instance grew out of his re-
fusal to answer questions of a Senate
committee that was investigating his
leasing of the Teapot Dome reserve
from Albert B. Fall.
Names Burns as Chief
Gordon's petition demanded that
the citations be issued because "there
were large numbers of Burns opera
tives engaged in close, intermittent,
Objectionable and improper surveil-
lance of the Fall-Sinclair jurors, their
relatives, neighbors and friends" w,
j. Burns was named as the operating
head of this work.
Sinclair, too, was named as the di-
rect instigator of the Burns opera
tons. The petition set forth that
Sinclair ordered and directed" Day
and Clark to engage the Burns men
for their improper surveillance"
The Sinclair orders to the Burns
men, it was alleged, were to spy upon
the trial jurors, Ito bride, intimidate
and influence them, and to do anything
calculated to interfere with and i'm
pede said jurors in the unbiased dis
charge of their duties" in the trial of
] the Teapot Dome oil fraud case, and
to influence, pervert, impede and
prevent the due administration of
justice, either by corruptly influence
ing said jurors to decide the issues of
said prosecution in favor of the de-
PENDANTS therein, or to disagree as to
said issues, by unlawfully spying
upon the said jurors for the purpose
of connecting false charges against
one or more in case such a course
should seem advantageous to said
defendants with view of bringing
about a mistrial."
Tell of Perjury
Details of the false affidavit re-
garding an alleged meeting between
Juror Norman Glasscock and H. R
Lamb, assistant to the Attorney Cen
eral, were also reviewed. This affi-
davit was made by William j. McMul-
lin, known to the Burns people as
William j. Long.
McMullin swore that Burns directed
him to make this affidavit and fur
nished him with the license number
of Lambs car for inclusion in the
paper.