Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-08

reports of the operatives showed, was
shadowed for days and nights, or
at least the car bearing the license
was.
Lamb promrA,ly was sent before the
grand jury. When he came out he
declared the allegations lInade by the
Burns men were lies" that he never
had been at the Potomac flying field
in his life; that on October %, the
day it was claimed he was therc.
the car was in a shop for repairs
and he did not obtain it urtn lare
in the day, when he drove to the
Washington Golf and Country club
in nearby Virginia to play golf.
Neil BurkinshaW, assistant district
attorney directing the grand jury
inquiry, said the Lamb matter was
a piece with many other things found
IN. the reports of the operatives;
charges which when run down proved
to be without any foundation in fact
Burns freely conceded to newspaper
men that Henry Mason Day employed
the detective agency now conducted
by his son to shadow -.ile members
of the oil conspiracy jury; declared
that this was a proper thing for
the defense" to do, and asserted such
employment was justified by "the
facts" obtained as to a government
employe making contact with a juror.
"None of the Burns men made con-
facts with the Jurors" he added. "Of
course, they could not legally do
that and if any, did we will be glad
to assist in his prosecution
In connection with Burns testi-
mony today before the grand jury,
it became known subpoena had
been issued for j. j. Jeffreys
an official of the Sinclair Consolidat-
ed Oil company, who is expected to
come here from New York Thursday
for questioning. %
Three memberse of the trial Jury.
Miss Bernice Heaton, Bradner w.
Holmes and Robert G. Flora--and
Douglas Catchin1, former assistant
manager of the Burns agency here,
were other witnesses heard. Catchim
is the man who joined the marines
on October % and was brought back
tc Washington because report
reached the district attorneys office
that he had stated that if ne could
get out OF the country he would
be "fiXed for life"
Catchin showed up at the court
house under guard by .gunnery
sergeant, who would not permit him
to communicate with anyone exceut
court officials and the grand Jury.
Catcllim was in the inuuisitortal
chamber only brief time and no
1ntlmation was given as to what his
statement had been. He was returned
under guard to the marine barracks
here and may be recalled later.
III his petition to Justice Siddons.
Kidwell asked for hearing at which
he might produce witnesses in an
effort to diSprove the statements of
j. Ray Akers, street car conductor
and Donald T. King, newspaper re-
porter, that he had discussed the
trial during its progress and had
praised Harry F. Sinclair.
KidWell declared Akers' ard King
tried to get him to talk about the
case; that he repeatedly refused to
do SO and finally asked a friend to
take him away from the "soft drink
establishment where Akers and King
were. His friend agreed, he said, and
they drove away in the friends auto
mobile.
The juror told the court that as
result of the publicity given 10 tae
affidavits his "good name has tee-,
and that he himself had
been "held up to public ridlcuIe anu
Scorn" and "has been portrayed as
an outrageous man and condemned
as an unfit citizen without having
tten afforded an opportunity to de-
lend himself and prove the falsity
of the said affidavits.'
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