Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-07
JURORS ARE NAMED
FOR TRIAL OF FALL
ON BRIBERY CHARGE
Four Women and Eight Men
for Panel in Case of For.
mer Cabinet Member.
MOTION TO DISMISS
INDICTMENT DENIED
Justice Hitz Overrules Plea of Dual
Jeopardy Under True
Bill.

Bill.
Four women and eight men we're
finally selected as a jury this after
noon to sit during the third criminal
trial Of former Secretary Of the Interior
Albert B. Fall, under indictment $r
bribery. growing out of his alleged ac-
ceptance of 100000 in the leasing Of
naval oil lands by Edward L. Doheny..
The jury in Criminal Division Upper
of the District Supreme Court. where
the bribery case is being tried before
Justice william Hitz. was selected at
2:30 o'clock today from a list of IS
men and women. comprising the panels
of the various divisions OF the court
The case opened this morning.
1t required approxima tely. two and
one-half hours for Government and de-
fense attorneys to exhaust their chal-
lengeS.
Will Guard Jury.
Immediately upon the jury being
sworn. Justice Hitz ordered the four
women and eight men locked UP during
the duration of the trial. which. he was
informed by counsel.I would last three
weeks.
This is a precaution taken in the
oil trials since the jury surveillance in
the Harry r. Sinclair trial last year In
the Teapot Dome case. Shadowing of
the jury In that case resulted N a mis-
trial.
Court recessed when the selection Af
the jury was completed until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning. At that time coun-
sci for the Government, followed by
counsel for the defense. will make their
opening statements to The jury.
The jury is as follows: No. |. Miss
Virginia Cooper. % years old. Sl6
Twenty-f1rSt street, secretary in her
fathers real estate office.
No. q Mrs. Helen M. Jarboe. 36, 1907
Minnesota avenue southeast. bookkeeper
No. 3. Thomas C. Adkins. as. 1928
Franklin street northeast, B. & o. en-
gineer.
No. 4. Daniel Weisbach. 81, 2le Bates
street. clerk Western Union.
No. 5. George E. Parker. colored. ~,
623 Sixth street northeast. dining car
waiter, Atlantic Coast line.
No. s. Festus p Bowman. 90 636 +
street southwest. clerk, Capital Trac-
tion Co
No 7. Mrs. Hazel A. Fuller. 35. 219 T
street northeast housewife.
No 8. Mrs. Ollie o. Walker. So 1917
Olive street northeast, a housewife.
Fairmont street. paying teller Mount
Vernon Savings Bank.
No 10. Charles Roger Nichols. 81.
1895 Ogden street. service clerk, Raleigh
Hotel.
No. II. Harvey L. Taylor. ~. 43s
Tenth street southwest, interior deco
rator.
No. u. Barney o. weitz. %, 1880
Kansas avenue, coal merchant
Attended by Doctor.
Attended by his physician and
nurse, Mr.. Fall arrived at the court
house ABOUT IS minutes before court
convened. He was assisted with diffi-
Guilty from his outomcb bile and shortly
a6.er his arrival went into tie court
room. the scene of his former acquittal
with Edward L. Doheny In 1926, when
tried on the conspiracy charge grow
ing out of the same lease of naval OIL
lands.
Mr.. Fall got out of a sick bed TO at
tend the opening of the tlial. having
suficiently recovered from a bronchial
attack to make it unnecessary for
counsel to plead for delay.
When court convened Eigh- h-backed
upholstered armchair was brought into
the courtroom
Mr.. Fall sank into 1t. only his white
hair being visible to spectators from the
rear. On one side sat his nurse. Miss
Laura Smith; on the other his physician,
DR.. H. T. Stafford of New Mexico.
Doheny Attends Trial.
Mrs. Fall accompanied her husband
and sat among the spectators at the
rear of the room. AS during his previous
trial, she will remain constantly by his
side. His old friend. Edward L. Doheny.
unchanged with the passing of two
years, sat at one end of the counsel
table. within few feet of the defendant.
Owen J. Roberts and former Senator
Atlee S. Pomerene and United States
Attorney Leo A. Rover. who are con-
Quoting the prosecution of the bribery
charge for the Government. sat in the
front row at the counsel table. Behind
them sat Frank j. Hogan, chief of
defense counsel; J. Wilson Lambert and
William z. Leahy, with Mark B.
Thompson Of New Mexico, attorney
and longtime friend of Mr.. Fall.
At the outset Justice HitZ announced
that the court had sustained the
demurrer filed by Government counsel
in person by Mr.. Fall when seeking to
have the bribery charges dismissed on
the grounds of dual jeopardy.
without further preliminaries the
Jury panel of 26 men and women was
called and Mr.. Roberts identified the
case and introduced counsel on both
sides.
1t was apparent from the start that
no time would be lost in selecting a
Jury. The first IL men and women on
the panel were called to the jury box
and interrogations were put to them as
a whole.
Hogan Quizzes veniremen.
AS during the earlier conspiracy trial,
Mr.. Hogan diligently inquired Of venire-
men If they had read anything Of the
long pending oil cases. were acquainted
with the radio speech delivered by Sena
tor Thomas j. Walsh of Montana just
before the other trial or were acquainted
with any one of the counsel. the men,
bers of the senatorial investigation com
mittee or with former Senator Irvine
L. Lenroot, now Federal judge.