Evening star., 1939-02-14
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.

BY CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Three more persons-Carl T.
Denekas, juror; Harry Fine and
Thomas Harrison Quinlan, friends
OF Emmitt Warring-were cited by
Justice Bolitha j. Laws in District
Court today for contempt as he
closed hearing on charges which
already had involved in similar cita-
tions Harry T. Whelan and William
B. O'Connell, attorneys for the de-
fense in the Warning income tax
case, Emmitt himself. and Deputy
United States Marshal John B.
Upperman.
Justice Laws directed United States
Attorney David A. Pine to prepare
the new citations after Denekas. who
sat in chair No. / of the jury box at
the recent income tax trial, had tes-
titled that he allowed himself to be
approached by Emmitt Warning be-
fore the trial and offered $500 by
Fine and did not report the matter
until several days after the trial
began and he suffered twinges of
conscience
The court ordered Denekas, Fine
and Quinlan taken into custody at
once and asked Mr.. Pine to arrange
for their cases to be heard Friday.
On the same day Mr.. Whelan and,
Mr.. O'Connell are to answer the
citations charging them with con-
tempt OF court for allegedly giving
Upperman money.
Justice Laws said he hoped to
dispose of the whole jury tampering
case by next Tuesday at the latest.
Meanwhile he will defer passing
sentence on Emmitt Warning and
Upperman, who pleaded guilty. In
directing the new citations, Justice
Laws said he was not unmindful that
Denekas, Fine and Quinlan had
testified for the Government volun-
tarily, nor was he overlooking the
possibility that there might be a
legal bar to their prosecution but
nevertheless he. felt that they
should be cited and the matter
threshed out in open court. He in.
formed the district attorney that
If he felt there was any reason for
generating the three witnesses, he
could make it known to the court by
Friday.
Deputy United States Marshal
Clayton D. Gasque, meanwhile,
stood suspended today by United
States Marshal John B. Colpoys
after testimony yesterday at the
Warning trial disclosed that he had
permitted photographers to see
Charles Warning while, with Deputy
United States Marshal Upperman,
he was taking Warning to the Fed
eral Penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. Colpoys explained today that
Mr.. Gasque had violated a regula-
ton, which prohibits anybody, in
cluding the attorney or his relatives
or friends, from seeing a prisoner
who is being transported in the
custody Of deputy United States
marshal.
Says He Was Offered $500.
Denekas, trouble shooter for the
Potomac Electric Power Co., testified
today that on January 30 Fine called
at his home, at los Varnum street
NV, and remarked that Denekas
was on the jury in Criminal Court
No. 3, where the Warning case was
coming up in a couple of days
DenekaS said that Fine, whom he
had known for number of years,
then said: How would you like to
make $600?" The witness went on:
Il didn't give him any reply on
the 5000 but said, Don't let's talk
about it here and we went out and
started to get in my automobile but
got into his and talked"
Later that evening Denekas de-
scribed meeting Fine at restaurant
on Connecticut avenue by prear-
rangement. Fine, the witness said,
took him to an automobile with its
curtains drawn, they got in and
drove somewhere" with a man who
said he was Warning. They went
into cafe and sat at a table in
back beside liquor bar, Denekas
said, and he then saw that the man
was Emmitt Warning, the witness
pointing out the defendant in court.
Fine, Denekas testified, bought him
a Scotch and soda and they chat
ted while and then Denekas went
to the washroom. He had hardly
entered the washroom, the witness
said, when Emmitt Warning fol-
lowed and said: What are you GO
ing to do for me?" Denekas said he
answered:
I'm not going to do anything
for you, but I will do anything for
Harry"
Denekas added: He said he was
going to give me 500. I said I
didn't want to have anything to do
with the matter and walked away. !"
Still being questioned by United
States Attorney Pine, Denekas said
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