| Show SINCLAIR IN lAIR TRIAl LAWYERS lA ARGUE AR U U. U S. S Challenges Defense to Let Albert B. B Fall Speak WASHINGTON April 20 AP AP- AP Challenge to the defense to let Albert B. B Fall speak and a retort that anyone would have been a fool to pay a cent for the Teapot Dome lease obtained b by Harry F. F Sinclair marked the arguments of lawyers for the opposing sides to today today to to- day in in the oilman's trial for con con- Owen J. J Roberts special government govern govern- mont ment counsel obtained permission from the tle court to tell teU the jury that Fall had made a deposition which the defense had refrained from using He lie taunted the Sinclair counsel on this point declaring would they knew kne Falls Fall's testimony not help them Fall Fan lied and lied Roberts said and he ridiculed the claim that t the payment of in Liberty bonds to the former secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of the Interior was for a Continued on page 4 4 SINCLAIR TRIAL TRIAL- LAWYERS ARGUE Continued train front 1 1 share shaie in the 1 Tall Fall all ranch in New cw MexIco NOT NINNIES There is not one word to show how that It was a a. I lousiness transaction ho lIe said and near the end end of or his hla argument he ho told the Jurors jural's that when they sat in tile the box they did dill not become ninnies but still were men who reasoned as men meri do George r P. Hoover opening for Sinclair said Sinclair was not beIng beins be- be lug ins tried on a charge of bribery We are trying him on a charge of ot conspiracy to defraud d the United States tates government he said You lou must lust try this tills case upon the tte evidence you cant can't try it on arguments arguments ments of counsel because those arguments are not based on evidence evidence evi evl- dence he lIe said Ill ni show v you later anyone would have havo been a fool to pay a cent edIt for the kind o of lease Mr Sinclair got Sinclair's counsel said the thc government government gov gov- had brought M l T T. Everhart Ever Ever- hart Falls Fall's son law to the stan stanl and the jury must believe his story that the Liberty bond payment was wa-s for the ranch stock Defense Defene witnesses wit wit- nesses were honorable men I Hoover said and were Insulted by this astute lawyer from Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia A request by the tile government that It be allowed to refer to the openIng open- open Ing statement of Martin W. W Littleton Littleton Littleton Lit Lit- at the Sinclair Fail trial last October was overruled Littleton at that time said it would be made clear c cear as a deduction that Sinclair had not passed any of ot the Continental Conti Conti- Trading company's Liberty bonds to Tall Fall or to anyone on be behalf behalf behalf be- be half of Fall The defense now is that Fall Tall did receive Liberty bonds but that they were for a share snare in his ranch PRAYER DENIED A prayer by the defense that Justice Bailey instruct the Jury that before it could find tile the oilman guilty it must decide in Liberty Libert bonds was wag was was' not paid for an Interest In the Fall ranch was also denied The rhe court ruled that It was noly necessary to prove Conspiracy conspIracy conspiracy con con- and that Sinclair was not charged with bribery The deposition of Fall was opened by Justice Bailey It made madea a bulky document of pages The fact that it had been taken was offered to show Fall Tall had waived Immunity Roberts in his Ills ar to the jury jur said that when corruption creeps into public life society b begins to disintegrate You Youre re the power he lIe said I have only the function to present what tho the government thinks about the case Gentlemen it rests on you jou ou to say the tile government has had no fraud practiced on It or has had fraud practiced on it it The Tile government had proved he contended that a worth had been beeh given Sinclair under a cloak of ot secrecy I 1 PROVED IT ITI ITI I r proved It out of his Ills own mouth when I lead read you his testimony testimony testimony mony before the senate committee he said ald t The prosecutor read bits of ot testimony testimony tes tea to support his argument that no one else was given a It chance to bid for tor oi Teapot dome Sinclair and that 1 Fall Fail favored en ing to the tue proposition of ot Amos L. L Beaty of ot th the Texas Oil on company f for the naval oil reserve Roberts said 1 Fall had lied and lied about itHe itlIe it lIe He Beaty was waB the one bl big oilman who got into the deal and he had to be bo put out of the picture picture pic pie ture tur the prosecutor continued I conclude this tills chapter of this story with this statement statement state state- ment mont said Roberts Albert Albeit B. B Fall Tall made Blade the tile lea lease e with Harry F F. Sinclair secretly and clandestinely He lie called attention to tho the Fall all deposition and said if It there had been anything tavor favorable ble in it the tile defense would have used It H. If this deal Is not a fraud let leI Fall Fan speaks he said saM adding that thai the time purpose o ot of the secrecy was tolt to let lt Sinclair lr cinch the lease |
