Evening Star Newspaper, October 5, 1923, Page 5

NEW ENGLANDTOUR 10| <87,IN POLICE TRIAUNAL| = ‘ow PLANO! '?n_l. Upholds Indictment of Ex- ‘Assistant War Secretary on Fraud Charges. Degcribing the arguments of Col. lienry I Stimson and Attorney Frank " F. Edward Mitchell, speclal ant to Attorney General Daugh- day began the presentation of ernment’s case in support of indictment charging Benedict| Crowell, former assistant secretary of War, and his six associates with con- spiracy to defraud the United States in connection with contracts for Army cantonments. i Mr. Mitchell gave an analysis of ndictment and asserted that it rly und legally charged the de- T nts with a conspiracy to. de- fraud. He asked thal the demurrer of the defendants be overruled and that they be held for trial The government's counsel declared that he did not have to characterize the conduct of the defendants, as both ir counsel had agreed that the es are treasonable, if properly He claimed the charges are d so clearly in the Indictment the defendants could use a ¢t of acquittal as a bar to any prosecution, and so clearly that ourt may lnow a crime has been mmitted, and judged by the test Ly decislons of the United States Supreme Court the Indictment is suf- ficlent in law and should be upheld by the court. Others to Support Indictment. Mr. Mitchell will be followed by s Assistant_Attorney Generals 4 Chantland and by Attorney Gordon in of the indictment. Attorney Il answer the government's . Justice’ Hoehling will natter under advisement. onor has listened to a high said Mr. Mitchell, to the pa- time of the nation’s peril. There | ¢ come a time when such an ap- that will have its proper Not now however.” lawyer characterized the trust confidence imposed in some of defendants as unprecedented and breach of that trust as “unthinka- hey (some of the defendants) struction industry. They insisted n the adoption of a form of con- should be used because 1 qualifications and in- Charges Fraud Committed. i W _did they discharge their By betrayal, by decelt, mis- ds Her “Bay’ to'sComfort* = e clining’ Years, Court ‘Is" Told TheiNayy dirigible ZRsf. wu‘?.m Tankd o 3% make a tour of New Prgland, ¢ was | by Golored Woman > announced by - the N-p'v‘y. rement Mrs. Carrie Thompson, a venerable | vesterday.. She will leave Lakehurst colored woman, who said that she had early tomorrow morning, if weather spent “one hundred and two Christ- |conditions are favorable, an@ will mases on earth,” was an anxious vis- [conduct radio compass tes€ off Xhe ce Court today looking | New Jersey ‘coast’ while en route Abner Millage, who, {northward. she sald, was eighty-seven years old | Long Island will be traversed in and who had been arrested, she un- (the neighborhaod of Southampton, and derstood, on a charge of begging on |the sound will be crossed at New the streets. The son, who she said |London. The general course then was “harmless as @ kitten," has been | Will be over Providence, Brockton, sent to the Gallinger Municipgl Hos- | Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Hart- pital for mental observation. * * ° |ford, New Haven and Bridgeport., She eaid that all her life she has; The New Kngland trip probably cared. for this son, fed and dressed|Will 'be " the last to be made from him as if he was a baby, and she |Lakehurst for some time, unless the asked that he be returned to her to|department approves the proposal cheer her declining days. She ex-|that a short trip be made down the plained that her “boy” had gone out|Shenandoah valley, from which - the vesterday afternoon and, failing to|Ship is to take her officlal name. return home last night, that she had|Ixtended flights already made have | spent a sleepless night. all “een part of the regular schedule trial, .which officials said may.now be considered completed. | Tests of & S8 scientific nature and training of per- being well cared for at the ho: sonnel will monopolize the attention She will be permitted to go there and of the Lakehurst station for several | see him. weeks. 4 ' When You Come Home & E thrill of happiness that goes through all your family when you come home— do you ever think of this bank in con- nection with it? - Does it ever occur to you that your dear ores deserve protection whether you come home or not? . Have you made a valid will, providing for ntution and fraud. They pro- d that competition was impos- | nd that only such contract-' : firms as should be selected ould do t ork. They procured Ives the power of making ions and brought into tHe contracting elected corporations v had formerly as- Because their plans were . with they complained i us officer of the cntative of a icting firm. indictment charges them.” tinued Mr. Mitchell, “with having j nsed the sacred trust for their | n and the gain of their friends | potates In the conmtracting m‘l o G e g, ST 'y erett Field, director of adlum Institute of New York, ently quoted as believing that ive treatment may prolong s long as fifteen years The Dahlia Gardens|| Will Exhibit Their New ON Saturdays and Sundays During the Season Motor out to see them GAITHERSBURG, MD. | “On the Frederick Road” Foot Troubles The day for patient endurance of erippled and tired feet; .due to weakened arches, is past. 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