OCR Text |
Show ANOTHER CHANCE FOR HER. President Roosevelt Will Decide the Dodgo Necklace Case. WASHINGTON. Dec. 11. The President has determined to take tho question of Mrs. Dodge's diamond necklace under further fur-ther advisement, and to dctermlno finally whether It can bo restored to her on payment pay-ment of the customs duties and penalties, or whether It will have to be sold at auction, auc-tion, as ordered by Secretary Gage when ho was at tho head 0 the Treasury department de-partment several years ago. That order has been suspended several times, whllo Mrs. Dodge carried an appeal to tho United States Supremo court, which recently re-cently declined to Issue a writ of certiorari ln the caso. Soon after the court disposed of tho appeal ap-peal Secretary Shaw ordered that Secretary Secre-tary Gage's original order bo executed, and the sale was advertised, but Mrs. Dodgo's attorneys Induced the President to Interven. pending further Investigation. Attorney General Moody and District Attorney At-torney Burnett gave the President strong reasons why tho law should bo allowed to take Its course, but Edward Lantorbach and Wlckham Smith, representing Mrs. Dodge, went to tho White House In company com-pany with Secretary Shaw and after listening lis-tening to both sides for an hour tho President Presi-dent doclded to look Into tho caso further. Tho law gives tho secretary of tho Treasury Treas-ury discretion as to acceptance of payment pay-ment of duties In such cases, and tho Treasury department and the Department of Justice have up to the present time declined de-clined to revoko Secretary Gage's order or modify it ln any way. |