Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 26, 1924, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1924 OIL DEAL THAT NETTED GREAT Ss (Continued From Page One) order” very carefully Just before his death, the witness said, and she Judgment that he took his own life on that circumstance. under a great strain re sulting from Le relations with the transactions she previously has scribed to the pest fecia ret “It was your belief that Jess Smith committed suicide?” Chair- man Brookhart reiterated. “Yes, sir,” Miss Stinson said. “So far as I am concerned, I am sure that he did take his own life. How- ever, I also consider Harry Daugh- erty morally responsible for his death.” Chairman Brookhart asked her to give details as to the Property of Smith before he came to Washing- ton, remarking that by her testt mony he had left an estate of be- tween $125.000 and $140,000. She produced an inventory which she explained in detail. When he went to Washington, he said, he had “gome coal stock, orth $10,000" and some 900 shares in another company “appraised at $70,000, but worth more than that.” “He possessed a share of a ary goods ‘ore which he sold for $40,00 she continued, “a $12,000 house and two cottages worth $3,500. He might have had a few stocks on margin and other minor things, inconsequential.” “Now, what did he have when he dled that he did not came to Washingto: tor Brookhart. “There was $63,000 in liberty bonds at the Riggs bank,” said the bates “and 310 shares of Pure Ou, rth $5,584. Then there was 200 Central Leather, worth $4,000.” a1 rding to your figures, on com! to Washington,” Senator Mossess Republican, New Hamp- shire, put in, “Mr. Smith had about $136,0007" Miss Stinson agreed. Senator Moses then pointed out that the inventory of the estate showed he had at death $214,000 and Senator Jones, Republican, Washington, asked if the witness had reason to believe that Smith Net Property not covered in the in- ventory. After a brief hesitation she said she preferred “not to answer that.” “Aresthe 75 $1,000 bills you testi- fied Mr. Smith had listed in the in- ventory?” asked Senator Ashurst. -“No.” “You do not know the name of the gentleman who was present when Jess Smith died?” “Yes, Mr. Martin, Mal Daugh- erty tells me, was present.” Martin is private secretary to the attorney general. Senator, Moses asked if there was a “Money. bel! found in Smith's personal effects. Miss Stinson said she did not know. ___ “Attorney General Daugherty has waid that I am an angry woman because I wasn’t his sole heir,’ she remarked. “If you have reason to believe he had other property I'd like you to state it,” said Senator Jones. “T'@ rather not answer.” She said she had told Mal Daugh- erty that she thought they would find “something for me” in Smith's deposit box. She insisted, howeve: that Smith had “never led me believe that I would be his sole hetr.' ‘Do you know that there was ‘a note found in Mr. Smith's pocket when he died?” Senator Ashurst asked. “I only know there was a will found, all in his handwriting, made on Monday, and he passed away Wednesday.” K It appeared this will was different from the one giving $25,000 to Attorney General Daugherty. “It was the duty of those who had charge to file this for the court’s inspection,” said Senator Ashurst. as a gh The Willys-Knight quiet, silky action. cams, rind, SUM TOLD ON STAND BY ROXE Miss Stinson said this will, though Invalid, had been shown to the courts, Chairman Brookhart put tn a let- ter written by Smith to Miss Stin- son, dated in December, 1922, telling her,to “sell White Motor and hold Pure Oil.” It spoke of the Daugh- erty impeachment proceedings be- fore the house and said “everybody was full of fig - Another ¥#ess” letter, dated Jan- uary 29, 1923, described Smith’s sale of his Washington Court House, Ohio, store, saying he had “lost some money” on the transaction but was well satisfied. Miss Stinson said Smith told her on one occasion that “five men had made $33,090,000" in a Sinclair oll deal inthe fall of 1922. She had asked Smith, she said, “were you Harry in on tt “No, that’s why we're sore. They were all our friends,” she quoted Smith as replying. Senator Jones asked Miss Stinson to name the five men and she said she “was not sure” of them. “Was Ned McLean one of them?” “I'm not sure.”* A‘l the letters read were on At- torney General Daugherty's de- partment of justice stationery, They were all heaced ‘my dear,” and contained many intimate, per- sonal matters. In an interpolation regarding the letter referring to the impeachment Proceedings, Mite Stinson said that about Christmas 1922, Smith told her “the senate was stacked” to prevent Daugherty’s impeachment. On January 3, 1923, Smith wrote from Washington that he was going to Ohio with the attorney general for “an unexpected visit." In a later letter, in affectionate terms, he told her “not to worry about fi. nances, but let me know.” On Feb. 6, Smith In Washington, wrote to Miss Stinson at Milam! Beach Florida, telling of the illness of At- torney General Daugherty. “He sees no one except the nurre and myself,” the letter said. He enclosed a check. , “How much was that check for?” Chairman Brookhart asked. “I don't remember—several hun- dred dollars,” she said. “This was a relation to the in- qui Senatory Ashurst put in. think you said once t! M Smith spent @ good deal living. “He told me *thay—and ‘they’ meant Attorney General Daugherty —spent about $50,000 a year just to Ive in Washington,” Miss Stin- son said. Senator Jones asked Miss Stin- son how much money Smith sent her from Washington. She esti- mated it at “several thousand dol- Jars," and said there had been sev- eral $500 bills.” q ‘It was much more, this money, than he had been used to giving you before he came to Washing- ton?" Chairman Brookhart asked? It was a delicate subject—even when we were together,” she maid, "I never likec to ask him a direct question.” She objected to answering, but the committee pressed the point. “Weill, he told me in the fall of 1922 that five men had made $33, 900,000" she said.- “I think the deal was in Sinclair off.” Asked further about the $33,000,- 000 deal, Miss Stinson said she would “rather have the things come out on cross examination. Senator Jones questioned her at- say just as little as I can. I'm here because Senator Wheeler came down to my house and told me I had to.” She turned back to the letters. Smith wrote her in February, 1923 that he was “blue and depressed” while Attorney General Daugherty was worrying too much about things at the office.” “This is getting on my nerves,” the letter said. “Im afraid I will fly to pleces. Keep your own counre! and don't get sic! 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Touring Phone 1963 : ‘be Casper Dally Cridune “He said ‘five fellows just made $33,000,000 off the stock market in three Gays! I asked ‘were you and Harry in on it? and he said ‘no. that's what we are sore about,’ and went on to say they were men they had been dining with.” “We would like to know espec fally if McLean was one of these,” said Chairman Brookhart. Miss Stinson bit her Ups and stoppec. “I don't Ike to tell for the sim- ple reason that I don’t like to,” she said, “I have my reasons.” Senator Brookhart said the com- mittee would take up the question of further evidence as to the names of these men “in executive ses- sion.” The witness began examining telegrams she received from Smith, and there was a reference to a $100,000 purchase in Ohio. “You have asked if I knew where Mr. Smith had more money,” the witness put in. “In the spring of 1923 I was thinking of buying a hotel in Co- lumbus and the price was $100,000. Jess Smith told me to go ahead and buy it and he never would have untess he had the money." Senator Jones reverted to the $33,000,000 Ceal, and Miss Stinson ator Wheeler.” ‘I never told anybody in United States any more, Chairman Brookhart excused her, enying Senator Wheeler de- sired to be present at the cross ex- amination. The chairman then began read- ing telegrams that passed between Smith and M. 8. Daugherty, B. B. McLean and others. Some of the messages to Smith were signed “H” and Senator Brookhart said it would be shown later who “H” referred to. One sent to McLean at Palm Beach on February 6, 1923, b: Smith, said Daugherty’s health was improving. On February 8 McLean wired an invitation to the attorney general to come to Palm Beach. the she said. 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