Show Ranger Accused of Disregarding Truth SAN ANTONIO Texas March Statements 15 lo Statements made by Capt Captain ln B. B C. C Baldwin of the Texas Rangers Rangers Ran Ran- gers who testified before the committee committee committee com com- investigating the department department depart depart- ment of ot Justice were branded as aslies aslies aslies lies by two federal officials C Cap Cap- p- p tain William Hanson district di dire dire director di- di re rector tor of f Immigration and United States District Attorney John D. D Hartman today Both Captain Hanson Hanson Hanson Han Han- son and Mr Hartman were named in statements made by the ranger captain Captain Hanson who was summOned summoned summoned sum sum- I to appear before the committee committee committee com com- in Washington declared from his sick bed Saturday that Baldwin's Baldwins statements were lies of ot the whole cloth 4 FORT WORTH Texas March 15 16 District District- Attorney Henry shown the telegraphic r reports ports 01 of the Daugherty investigation in Washington made the following Statement As to the M M. I. I L. L Lide referred to He came to me when under indictment and said if the government government government gov gov- had some way of paying him enough to live he would put pu us on the Inside of ot the biggest gr group up of ot autom automobile bile thieves in the Middle West I called calle In Agent Agen B v C. C. C Baldwin Baldwin- and told him himl to 10 lI listen t n to to tides liide's story and ari if f he thought there was anything to It I to use use- his own Judgment nt about bout hiring him him asan as an r LANDS IN PRISON I Since then Ive I've never heard from Baldwin about Lide but I did prosecute Lide for impersonating impersonating impersonating an an officer and he is now in Le Leavenworth V p penitentiary serving a a sentence of eighteen months Regarding Riley and the statement that at he collected 1000 I declined to authorize a complaint int to be filed against him because the Investigation in investigation investigation In- In showed that Riley RUey was acting ad as a collector for some oil company and afterwards he be was employed as a special deputy United States marshal during the railroad strike and w was s discharged from the government service and after alter his discharge this complaint came up Investigating showed U that it Che he party who parted with the 1000 owed Rileys Riley's client the money money that Riley simply persuaded pur- pur the party to pay what hat he owed It opinion then and andI I I. I lam am still of the same opinion that I representations of whatever regardless could the same lons Riley made lawful basis basis- of a the not be made prosecution because Riley BIle secured wrongfully from nothing of ot value wrong Y the party With reference to B Baldwins Baldwin's ld i s 's statement that he was asked to o companies it was w s snot investigate te oil department department department depart depart- depart depart- not not Baldwins Baldwin's duty as a ment of j Justice agent to investigate violations of the postal laws I II Imay I may have discussed with Baldwin In n. n the presence of ot Joe Kingsburg Baldwin was never called Jr but I investigation upon to to to- to tomake make an I STANDS ON RECORD On On August 3 1922 I l' l requested quested the attorney generals general's depa department to furnish me assistants for the purpose of ot mal making ing an investigation tion ion of the violations of tl the e postal laws in my district Many in inspectors inspectors pec- pec tors accountants and assistant at attorneys attorneys at- at were furnished me an and 1 I stand upon my record of ot in indictments indictments indictments in- in convictions In fines ninety-five ninety years In prison sentences without a single acquittal acquit acquit- tal tat as an answer to the people of the United States as to whether I have done my full duty as a United States district attorney In 1923 when I began to round roundup up those hose under Investigation to present to U the e grand Jury for indictment indictment in- in ment I decided that Mr Baldwin Baldwin Baldwin Bald Bald- win was waC not In accord with the efforts ii rt r I was as putting forth as a prosecutor was not loyal to my office and requested the department department department depart depart- ment to send senda a special agent to look the sit situation atlon over with a aI aview aview view of transferring Baldwin to I some other district until the mall mail fraud prosecutions were over The investigation was made with the result that D. D C. C Baldwin and another another another an an- other agent of this district were transferred to Montana and Minnesota Minne MIme Minnesota sota respectively and thereupon Baldwin resigned his post |