The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-15

over his election. It IS there that Pl years of delay. to dedicate for poster President and Mrs Harding are burie
 What of the "Ohio gang" now and what are they doing today?
 Harry M. Daugherty, who was Markings attorney general and was later tried in a conspiracy case in- volving bribe of s441,0O0 in which Colonel Thomas w. Miller, former alien property custodian, was found guilty and Daugherty acquitted. Is living quietly in Columbus. Miller served IS months at Atlanta.
 It was Daugherty, Harding's po- litical mentor for years. who is credited with having put over Harding's nomination at Chicago in 1920 by carefully rounding up sec- ond-choice votes with which he made a surprising success of 8 seemingly forlorn hope.
 His banker-brother, Nal s. Daugherty, who burned the books showing Daugherty deposits and ing committee, today is under sen tence of 10 years in the Ohio peni- tentiary and $5,O00 fine in con neo.ion with the recent troubles of his defunct Ohio State bank at Washington Court house, o. He has appealed.
 Colonel Charles R. Forbes, first director of the Veterans bureau and another friend of Harding during his days at Marion, was released from Leavenworth penitentiary in 1927 after serving two years for grating on a huge scale in hospital contracts. According to men who investigated for the senate, during the two years Forbes was in charge of this bureau that expended ap- proximately half billions dollars year, 25 per cent of this-or $225,- 0O0,0OO-was grafted or wasted. Un- til just a few weeks ago he was opearting a gasoline station near Los Angeles.
 Jess Smith, the small-town Ohio haberdasher who had 0 desk and undefined duties at the department of justice and was accused during the senate investigation of handling huge sums in graft for liquor per- a suicide. He shot himself through the head on May 30, 1928, in the apartment of Attorney General Daugherty, with whom he lived, while Daugherty was absent at a White House guest
 Charles B. Cramer, head of the legal department of the Veterans bureau under Forbes, is dead-an- other suicide.
 Brig. Gen. Charles Sawyer. Har- ding's personal physician and ac- tive for him in many political mat ters, is also dead. He expired sud- denly of heart disease while the presidents widow was a guest at his home near Marion, only short time before her own death.
 Not all the men who figured in the scandals were members of the "Ohio gang that trooped into Washington on the heels of the victorious Harding in 1921.
 Albert B. Fall. Harding's secre- tary of interior who was branded by the supreme court of the United cer," was senator from New Mexico. Just recently the supreme court upheld Falls conviction Tn the oil fraud cases and today. after years of stubborn and futile resist ance in the courts. he faces prison term of one year and fine Of $100,O0O.
 E. B. Mclean, Washington news paper publisher and bosom friend of Harding who first stated that he had loaned Fall the $100,0O0 that Doheny. the oil magnate for the Elk Hills reserve in California, IS living in Washington. When put under oath by Senator Walsh. Mc- Lean admitted Fall had returned his check uncashed-and thus the key to the great oil scandals was obtained.
 Doheny was indicted but. singular ly enough. was acquitted of giving the bribe that Fall was convicted of receiving. The court apparently felt that Falls betrayal of public trust was more culpable than Doheny's energetic business methods to get control of a property on which. as he blandiy told senate committee. he expected to make proht Of $l00.000.00O.
 Harry F. Sinclair went to jail. but not for the bribes he paid Fall for the great Teapot Dome oil reserve He served q term of six months for contempt of court for hiring detec- tives to shadow jurors at his trial In connection with the bribery
 Two mon are still voluntary cxiles in c foreign land as the result of the great conspiracy, apparently prefer. ring to spend the rest of their lives in France, to which they iea when the scandal broke, rather than re. turn hero and testify.
 They are Henry NJ. nlaekmer, for. n,er president of the Mid.West Re. Hning company, and James O'Neii. former head ef the Prairie OH q Gas company. They participated in the Al Company Of Canada, q dummy e0fnoFalion Ruaranteaa by sinclair, whieh Was used Co raise hugo sums that later went for bfibes Co Fall ara far ntllaF mynlafi0un rHFDaaeA,