Evening star., 1932-06-23
'RA|CHLE AND PITTS
TRADE LIE IN COURT
Lawyer Accused of Perjury
and Former Client Ex-
change Accusations.
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the time of the alleged conversation,
, Raichle again asked:
Did you tell him (Miller) that YOU
| were going to testify against me here
| for the further reason that the Gov
tlement Of your income tax troubles If
you did SOP"
! De Vane again intervened with an
objection and Pitts refused to answer
the question. claiming his constitutional
immunity under q ruling of the court
on this question.
| Raichle then asked Pitts whether he
had been taken for automobile rides and
given Turkish baths since being sent to
Jail. Pitts answered both queries in
the negative.
/ Were you guilty Of the conspiracy
embezzlement charge on which you were
| convicted?" Raichle asked.
NO"
Claims Unjust Conviction.
"Then you were unjustly convicted?"
Eyes, and I wouldn't have been con-
victed at all If you hadn't messed 1t
up"
Pitts attitude toward Raichle was
| openly hostile, and on numerous occa-
sions he fatty refused to answer ques-
tions put to him by the attorney.
Raichle's attorney, James o. Moore
of Buffalo. NJ Y, Raichle's home, fire.
quently asked the court to direct the
witness to answer questions specifically
| Pitts, however, appeared unwilling to
| do this on several occasions.
At one time, he pointed excitedly at
Raichle with his fore1nger and said:
Now let me tell you, you can't bulldoze
me and yO,l needn't try"
Pitts said he testified falsely at his
| own trial under Raichle's direction and
that he believed 1t was proper to do
so. He said he did rot tell any of his
attorneys about this false testimony Or
about the circumstances under which
| the authorizations were fraudulently
| prepared and treated with acid in order
to give them an aged appearance.
Assistant Attorney General Nugent
Dodds and Neil Burkinshaw, a special
assistant, are expected to go more fully
| into Pitts reasons for tesufying against
Raichle during the redirect examina-
tion this afternoon.
Admits False Testimony.
Pitts testified yesterday Raichle ad-
vised him to throw away number OF
genuine authorizations and prepare
the others for use at the trial. He
did not explain why the attorney pre-
ferred the false documents to the au-
thentic ones.
Pitts was convicted on the conspir-
scy- y-embezzlement charges and SEN
fenced to IA years in the penitentiary.
He is also under sentence of an addi-
tional year for contemps of court in
connection with the introduction of
false evidence.
The defense also brought out yester
day that Pitts is unGe- two indictments
for perjury which are still pending,
and that he Is having trouble with the
Government on income tax delin-
quencies.
After alludng to the criminal prose-
cutiors facing Pitts. counsel for the
i defendant said to tie jury: Il leave
it to you to decide why Pitts now comes
in here and tells this story about
Raichle"
Keep 1t From Raichle"
In another portion Of his opening
statement Moore said it would be shown
Pitts had instructed the men who as
sisted him in preparing the false docu-
ments to keep it from Raichle." He
said it would also be shown that
Raichle engaged an expert to examine
! the papers and that this man. after an
, examination, told him they were
genuine
Pitts also testified Raichle asked Ed
| mund NJ Toland a local attorney, to
| go to w. T. Roberts & Co. printers. at
about the time the false documents are
alleged to have been prepared. and in
, luire whether the blank form of notes
they were selling at that time were the
| same as those sold in 1927, 1928 and
! 1929. the dates which appeared on the
authorizations.
| He testified that Toland refused. say
| ing Il don't want to have anything 20
| do with it."
| Theodore L. Weed, who became presi-
dent of the Smith Co. after Pitts re-
signed as chairman Of the board said
, that during the conspiracy -embezzle-
| ment trial he asked Pitts and Raichle
! if paper could be treated SO it would
have an aged appearance. He said
both men replied that this was possible.