Show I fAll Will Ull S STORY ORf Of LEASE MAR H 2 Deposition to Be Taken at El EI Paso Home of Secretary Ex-Secretary I COURT ORDER Counsel for Both Sides Will Be Present EL PASO Tex March 24 United Unit United ed Press Press Albert Albert B. B Fall former secretary of th the interior hopes h he will be permitted to to talk f freely eely wh when n his hia deposition is is taken here Thursday for use an the Vial trial of Harry Sinclair r fr oil magnate charged with wl conspiracy y to to d defraud fraud the the gov government tin in in connection with the I Teapot t Dome Dom oil ir lease I want to testify fully Fall said today I am willing to have an open hearing I. I WASHINGTON March 24 AP Alb Albert rt B. B Fall former secretary of the interior will tell his story of the Teapot dome lease on Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day March 29 at his hil home in in El EI ElPaso ElPaso Paso Tex Justice Jennings Bailey of the district supreme court today granted grant grant- ed a motion of Harry F F. Sinclair for th the taking of ot a deposition from Fall who Is too ill to to attend the trial here of Sinclair on April 4 4 Daniel Thew Wright who was recently retained as associate counsel counsel coun coun- sel aol by Sinclair will conduct the examination of Fall rail Representatives tives of the governments government's special c counsel will be presentA present A motion for permission to take the deposition submitted to JustI Jus Jus- tI tige e Bailey asked l that the court issue a commission to M or B B. Bull a a notary public whose address ss Is ise e courthouse building forty first district court of Texas E El Paso laso Tex to take the oral deposition of Fall S The The defendant Harry r P. Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- I I clair further shows to the court th that t in order properly to take the I deposition of or said witness it is 18 e es essential e- e that the witness be examIned examined exam exam- ined med 01 orally orlly 11 the petition said aswill as aswill aswill will appear b by tf the affidavit of Reginald W W. Rag land heretofore filed tiled in this cause March 22 1928 The te testimony which is expected ted to be adduced b by the deposition of said witness Albert B n. Fall Is of i such a character r that it cannot properly b be developed by written interrogatories S SS S Defendant m moves ves the court to pass an n order that the dep deposition of said witness Albert Abert E D. Fall Continued on page 6 6 I o c FALL FALL WILL TELL TELL S ST STORY RY OF TEA TEAPOT OT LEASE MARCH 29 Continued fr f. m l page age 1 may be taken upon three days days' n no notice tice given I en to the tho attorneys for Cor the United States of ot the time a and aid d place of taking said d deposition lt It Ragland gland one one o of ot Sinclair's Counsel Coun coun- eel sel recently visited Fall In El Paso In his affidavit filed mcd when shen Sinclair asked a a. continuance of or two months before going on trial he said that Fall would testify lIe He assented reluctantly at the Insistence Insist insist- ence Q of the president to to the executive exe ex ex- e order which permitted the thc Teapot dome lease to be given Sin Sin- clair lIe Ho also ass asserted crt cd that th the thc former Cormer Interior secre secretary r would say that he drove a good for forthe forthE forthe the government did not favor Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- clair and that tha the bonds bonds' he r r- r were for one third Interest In his ranch property which was worth more The bonds he sal said J Fall all would S say were In inno no wise offered or re received e- e ev v d a as a bribe |