Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-22

pass" he continued, $50 the only ques-
ton for you to determine is If the
money passed with corrupt intent.
You've got to interpret what was in
Mr. Doheny's mind"
He said Doheny said it was a loan
and the Government said 1t was a
bride.
which was it?" he asked.
"It is not the form of transaction,
but it is the intent" he said. 'Evi-
dence must show you beyond reason
able doubt that when this money passed
Mr.. Doheny, then and there, intended
to influence Mr.. Fall before he can be
found guilty. If the evidence does not
satisfy you of that primary fact then
you should find him not guilty"
Entitled to Doubt.
1.-THE defendant is entitled to every
reasonable doubt" the justice continued.
He told the jury it must consider
with the other evidence. He said "Mr.
Doheny's riches must not create any
prejudice against him or create any
sympathy for him"
He told the jury they must give "even
handed Justice" and decide the case
honestly upon your conscience"
The arguments ended late yesterday
with an imprisoned appeal by Frank
j. Hogan of defense counsel that his
client be acquitted and a calm recital
by Roberts of the evidence that had
been presented as he saw it.
Roberts told the jury the evidence
in the case makes out beyond doubt"
that Doheny had given Fall the money
with intent that the Secretary OF the
Interior should be influenced by it to
award his company leases.
Three-HOur Speech.
Nobody can deny and nobody has
denied that Mr.. Doheny's company was
after those leases" he said. And no.
body can deny there was an advance of
100000 to Fall"
Hogan devoted three hours to ex-
planning his contention that testimony
showed the Navy had ordered the In
terror Department to negotiate the
Pearl Harbor contract for naval oil Stor-
age, as well as the lease which the Gov
eminent charges Doheny got through
bribery.
The Pearl Harbor contract contained
preferential clause that gave Doheny's
Pan-American company the preference
to any lease in the Elk Hills naval oil
reserve that the Government decided to
make.
Hogan told the Jury the award was
made after naval officials and subordi-
mates of the Interior Department had
reported that 1t was the best of four
bids submitted on the project. Fall, he
said, was 1000 miles away" when this
decision was reached. Subordinates
telegraphed him, the counsel said, for
permission to execute the contract, to
which he replied to do so If Secretary
DENLY Of the Navy wished it awarded
to the Pan-American.
mot word was received from Fall"
he exclaimed, except to say, Put it up
to Denby.'"
Ends Prosecutions.
The verdict of acquittal in the Do
heny case today wound up the many
angled criminal and civil prosecutions
growing out of the oil-leasing policy of
the Harding administration, exposure of
which caused a national scandal and
was followed by the resignation of three
cabinet officers and the conviction Of
one Of them.
The civil cases against Harry F. SIM
clair and his Mammoth Co. and against
Doheny and the Pan-American Co. re-
suited in the return of the oil reserves
to the Navy.
The first of the criminal cases in
1925, that against Fall and Doheny, re-
suited In their acQulttaI on charges OF
conspiring to defraud the Government
out of the Elk Hills Reserve.
The second of the criminal cases, an
indictment charging conspiracy against
Sinclair and Fall on charges Of con-
spring to defraud the Government out
Of the Teapot Dome Reserve, ended In
a miStrial in 1927 when it was dis
covered that detectives employed by
Sinclair were shadowing the jury.
Served Jail Sentence.
Sinclair later was found guilty of
criminal contempt of court and served
six months in jail. In addition he
served three months after being found
guilty earlier of a misdemeanor for re-
fusing to answer questions asked by the
Senate oil committee.
Sinclair secured a severance Of his
conspiracy case from that of Fall be-
cause of the latter's illness and when
tried, in the Spring Of 1928, was ac-
Quilted by the jury.
Fall then was placed on trial on the
charge of accepting a bride from Do
heny and was pronounced guilty by a
jury composed of four women and eight
men.
Four months later the Doheny case
was called. 1t ended in q verdict to-
day Of mot guilty"