The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-05-23
ACTION FILED
 HERE ALLEGES
 W|LFUL DECEIT
District Attorneys Office Places Information
 Against Attorney
MISCONDUCT CLAIMED
 ON FIVE COUNTS
Widely Known Lawyer Ac- cused of Questionable
 Practices in Cases

Disbarment of William L. Paul, Juneau attorney. from practicing law in the Territory of Alaska is sought in an information filed in Federal District court today by George w. Folta, Assistant U. s. District Attorney, charging Paul with wilful deceit and gross mis- conduct in his professional capacity.
 Last October 29 Paul was fined $l00 and suspended from practic- ing for three months in the First Division as the result of a conver- sation he had with w. S. Pullen, who was then serving on the Grand Jury. The Court held at that time that Paul was attempting to influ- ence the deliberations of the juror in connection with case in which the attorney was interested
 i Five specific counts are placed against Paul who is charged in the information with 'on diver occa- sions been guilty of wilful deceit and gross misconduct in his pro- ! fessional capacity, greatly affect ing his character as an attorney of this court and rendering him unfit and unworthy to represent the pub lie in his professional capacity or to take any part as an attorney in any judicial proceedings
 Oil Company Deal
 On the first count, it is charged that Paul in December of 1930, as attorney for the Union Oil Com pany of California, instituted suit in Wrangell Justice Court against Gordon Mcdonald in the course of which property belonging to Mo Donald was attached and that Geo. Collins was employed as a watch man at the request of Paul. The oil company recovered on it's judg- ment $982.05 from Mcdonald and Paul submitted his bill for his fee and expenses to the company and | received a third of the amount recovered. Collins then insisted on payment of $231 for wages earned as watchman, the complaint sets forth, and Paul advised the com- pany that it was not responsible for the watchman's pay and that it should not pay the claim. Later, in March of 1884, the attorney is alleged to have brought suit against the company in behalf of Collins asking S23l, the amount of wages , claimed by the watchman. The suit was settled out of court, the infor- nation recites, for SITS, and that the said Paul received said SITS for Collins but instead of remitting said amount or any part thereof to said Collins, kept and converted the entire amount to his own use and has ever refused, neglected and failed to pay any part thereof to the said Collins
 Property Charge
 Again it is charged that last spring at Limestone Inlet Paul, under the pretext that there had been an insufficient compliance with the mining laws in the previ- ous location of certain mining claims, made pretended reloca- tion of the claims; that the pur- pose of the pretended relocation was to lend some semblance of le- gality to the theft of property from said claims" that Paul took from the claims certain property be- longing to A. H. Westall and Harry Jackson The property included a Black rock crusher. one Chalmers ore feeder, a 5-stamp mill conn., plete, one Pelton water wheel and l8 feet of finch shafting. Paul is accused of removing the property to his mining property in Glacier Bay and converting 1t to his own use"
 Further the attorney is charged with agreeing to bring action for Fred Davis at Taylor Bay in re- claiming a concentrator and that he took possession of the concen- trator and converted it to his own use without prosecuting the lien claim involved.
 Building Deal
 Another count in the informa- tion alleges that in September of 1884 at Ketchikan Paul sold a building at Dolomi Bay, Prince of Wales Island. to one Patrick Henry for which he received $l00. When Henry arrived at Dolomi Bay he fContinued op paoa r7iva