Show DOHENY FOUND NOT GUILTY ON BRIBERY COUNT 4 i. 4 9 Jury Returns Verdict Freeing Oil Baron in A Fall all Corruption Case L IL- A I Exonerated 1 l 6 I I Associated Press Pren Photo E. E L. L DOHENY I Out Only Slightly More Mor Than Hour Spectators Spectator Kiss Defendant WOMEN CROWD NEAR Result Unique Following Pals Pal's Conviction WASHINGTON March 22 AP- AP Edward L. L Doheny was waa acquitted today on a charge of bribing a former former for for- mer cabinet officer A jury of three three women and nine nina men in the District of Columbia su BU supreme supreme preme court sustained Doheny's Doheny plea that the he ho gave to Albert B. B Fall Hardings Harding's secretary of the interior was a n loan I The government charged that the tha money was given shen Fall to Influence his hb a award vard of or the Elk Hills naval na oil lea lease lease- o to a Doheny company compan Doheny arose e as the Jury m filed fileti tl into tho the courtroom and nd to it its ita box The jurors remained standing while whilo the clerk asked whether they haul hall arrived arrived at a 3 verdict t tYe Yes Ye replied tho the foreman hat What Is your oUr verdict asked the clerk Not Nol guilty replied replica i the foreman Chelsey II Ray Kay There was wa-s a tense stillness as Doheny and his counsel coun coun- sel HI watched the foreman The Jury was polled and confirmed the vcr ver diet dict JUDGE THANKS JURORS Justice lutz dismissed the jury after thanking it for its service and anul left tho the bench Tho The Jury jur had bad been beci rut out one ono hour and six minutes Mrs D Doheny heny pushed herself t Inside tho rail and embraced Doheny With ViUl tears streaming down their cheeks cheel the two stepp stepped d to the tho Jury box and thanked e each tl man and woman o othe oC ot the tho jur Jury After Her thanking the the Jurors Doheny said that he had been confident of or acquittal front from the start Both Doheny and Mrs re Doheny hidden from view as Jubilant mt friends crowded about them One of Dohen 8 associates exclaimed e- e claimed We 0 told you your our day wil wae coming ant and this Is ft It Mrs Dohen Doheny answered I 1 knew It would when we wc cano camo to court CASE CALLED UNIQUE Fall was convicted four months a ago o of ot accepting tho the money aa u a. a bribe and tho contradictory verdict today tollay has hag set up a 1 unique caso cam la In American Jurisprudence Tho The Jurys Jury's d decision leaves l Fall aJ I the former cabinet officer the only Continued on page pago 3 Jury Returns Verdict Freeing Oil Baron in Fall Corruption Case I Continued from page pagel lr person to be convicted of charges growing out of ot the oil leases proper though Harry F. F Sinclair served a a. Jail for refusing to answer answer an an- questions a asked ked by a a. senate committee and for criminal contempt contempt contempt con con- tempt of or court The Time government charged that Doheny Doheny Do Do- heny gave o a Fall November 30 30 1921 Int for tOr which h ho a n. year later r received a a. lease to tho rich naval na oil land in California California- DOheny testified tes tea that the money was Wile a lL loan to an old friend and not connected In any way with the oil lease The Doheny charge charo was wan th the last Jast of ot six Indictments returned J by ty a grand Jury as LS a t r result of ot the oil leas leasing In policies s of or the Interior secretary sec sec- ec- ec rotary of ot tho the Harding administration tion and except for appeal of or tho the Fall case cn ends s the criminal prosecutions prose roso- roso unless the tho latter c case caso o Is reversed rc and remanded for tor new trial Mrs Doheny said she had no Idea when hen she and her husband would go So home adding I dont don't caro now v WOMEN KISS DOHENY As a a. lino formed and filed filM by Doh Dohony Do- Do h hony heimy my e women kissed M him on tho the cheeks Mrs Doheny Dohen holding her arms about him also ileo kissed him Two women members of tho the Jury worn werA among those who clasped the hands of Ot Mr aud nd Mrs Doheny as ns the they stood side aldo by side leaning against a railing about the tho bench Mark Thompson who lutr ed d de defend defend de- de fend rend Fall said Id the Doheny Dohen verdict was I a clear vindication of ot the tho former former for tor- mer Int Interior secretary Tho The Judge charged tho the Jury that tho the whole p point Thompson said ald was as whether Doheny bribed Fall vindication yin vin The Jurys Jury's verdict was t a clear of ot both of or them Mr Ir and Mrs Irs Doheny left let tho the courtroom at 1 1220 20 p. p m. m still followed fol tol- lowed by persons who sought to shako their hands On the broad portico of or the District District District Dis Dis- of or Columbia supreme court building they paused for a battery of ot photographers and movie moie camera cam cam- era men NORRIS NORFUS WAXES SARCASTIC Word Vord of ot the tho verdict spread Quickly Quick Quick- ly to tho the senate where the In Investigations rations leading to the tho trial of or Dohen Dobony Doheny Do Do- hen bony heny Albert Fall and Harry F. F Sinclair Sin Sin- clair were started It Is another evidence commented commented com corn s Senator mator Norris Republican Nebraska that under our system 1 of or ofa you OU can n not convict 3 a 3 f felony lony Senator Walsh Democrat Montana Mon Mon- IOn IOn- tana taM who prosecuted tho senate Investigation Into the tho leasing of oC tho the naval oil reserves by Fall Fail to Dobony Doheny Do- Do bony heny and Sinclair declined to corn com It was tho the opinion of or senate lawers lawyers law law- Doh DohonY n ers that the acquittal of ot would not affect th the tho conviction of or their be beUer belief belief be- be Fall of bribery It was lief that Falls Fall's trial and conviction of bribery by Doheny Dohen stands sep sep- Fall was as sentenced d to one year tear in Jail ll and to a fine of or HO HOhas HOlias has lias appealed I Vindication Seen for Fall by His Wife I IEL EL PASO Tex March arch 22 AP F AP- Acquittal of Edward L L. Doheny ot or ota orn a n charge of bribery In tho the Wk Elk Hills vindication vindication vindi vindi- na naval 1 oil lease lUBe is a a. splendid cation that surely will call all to the tM attention of or the tho entire world the thet t terrible Injustice that has baa been done to Mr Fall and his family Ia ald Mrs Mn Albert B. B Fall FaU wife of or tho the former former for tor- mer secretary of ot the tho Interior Mrs Fall said Mid her husband was writing a a. statement to b bo issued later History of Oil Trials Outlined By the United Press The Tho Doheny ny case callo was vas tho last lut of or oil trials the final attempt of or tho the government to Jail jall one OM of ot the prin- prin in lit t the e oil scandals which flared over the country In 1023 24 as a. a r result of ot governmental go acts under the Harding administration Doheny year old survivor ur orthe of or the gun fighting lighting days of ot tho the old southwest and r retired from the oil business with a a. fortune estimated es estimated es es- at has defended from the days das of ot the s senates senate's first T Teapot Dome Domo revelations the In Integrity integrity In in- tc of ot his lease of th the Elk Hills naval r reserve serve In California Albert JUbert Alb tt B. B Fall President Harding harding Hard hard- ing InSi secretary of OC tho the Interior who obtained c cash h from Doben In a satchel on November 31 19 1921 1 and then l leased tho the Elk Hills ro- ro servo o to Doheny's Pan American Petroleum companies In 19 1922 and 1923 was convicted con d last year nr of ot bribery by a Jury In the tho same court court- room Fall a R. grizzled New Mexican politician Judge and former United States senator was sentenced to servo one year In prison and pay fine by Justice William lUtz Hitz the thc same Fame Judge who t presided over oyer th the tho Doheny Dohen trial CASH DEAL RECALLED Dohony's Doheny's trial 1 wa was tho the othor other endor endot end of ot the tho deal In which Ned NM Doheny son of ot tho the oil man now dead withdrew with with- ow dr-ow from his New York bank account account ac ac- ac count and and took to Fall all one night at Ida hlo hotel apartment herO here It Is the tho same Mme which Fall Fallat Fallat at first said ho be borr borrowed t td d from E. E B B. B McLean Washington ashington pub pub- lisher Usher Fall lall free on bond pending an ln appeal appeal ap ape apel l peal was too ill III at his El EI Pat Paso o home bome to come como hero here to testify for tho the oilman oil oilman ll man and friend of or carl early New Mexican Mex olex katz ican prospecting days Dohen A Ayoung ayoung young younS' miner r r. r broke broko his legs in a n. amine mine nUno and Fall FalI a a. young oun laWer lawyer was ae kind to him The vast ast New M Mexico ranch on which Fall Fali applied tho the aj as purchase price has been lo lost t to cr creditors Doheny putting up moro more money to get tho the title so that Ian Fall might spend nd lila his IQ last l years there LEASE INVALIDATED The profits which Doheny count count- cd ed on on as as high as for for tho the Elk Hills HUls lea lease have havo been blasted blasted blasted blast blast- ed by tho the court courts The Tho supreme court invalidated d tho the lease and also the lease so which Fall gave to Harry F. F Sinclair's Mammoth Oil company company com corn pany on tho the Teapot DOm Dome V Wyoming Wyo o ming naval reserve branding both as fraudulent and unauthorized and calling Fall a faithless s public officer Sinclair has baa served d two Jail s sentences sen n. n as the tho Indirect result of or the lenscH a leases a six months months' t tern tern-i rm for tempt o of ot court Imposed as a result of or setting detectives to watch tho the Jurors In liI hl conspiracy trial and anda a a. three thre months' months term for contempt of or tho the s senate oil committee One of or Sinclair's lieutenants lieutenant nant Henry Mason ll Day 8 served r four our months for tor forthe tho the Jury espionage The Tho previous criminal trials for conspiracy to defraud brought littie lIt lIt- tie success a 8 to the tho special government govern s ment meat prosecutors Mice Pomerene Pomer and Owen J. J Roberts Fall and Doheny Doheny Doheny Do Do- heny In 1926 1026 w were wre rc acquitted In connection con con- with the tIme Elk lUIIs hula lease and then Fall and Sinclair after aCter a a. mistrial because of or Jury sh shadowing dowinS' dowinS were acquitted in separate In-separate separate trials in conn connection with Teapot Dome HIS STORY PICTURESQUE Doheny told a a. picturesque story of ot being approached by tho thio then Secretary Fall old oM friend an and cattleman cat cat- In distress for financial aid ald and of tho the efforts of ot navy officers to build up a defense for Cor a potential potential poten poten- great war In tho the Pacific The rho lease terms torms provided Doheny's companies com corn panics should build and fill rul great I storage tanks at nt Pearl Harbor I Hawaii with fuel oil oil lifeblood of ot tho the fleet the fleet tho navy thus using Its Us under underground round rC reserve oil to buy bu fleet f facilities without bothering to attempt the tho difficult Job of or getting an nn appropriation from congress The famous executive order issued I a a. few fow months after aUer Harding became president authorizing tho the secretary of ot interior to dispose of or tho the naval reserve oil oU for the navy was re revoked re- re yoked by President Coolidge io after tho the supreme court formally invalidated invalidated Invalidated dated tho action of Fall as unauthorized and Illegal Tho The governments government's version was that Falls Fall's path was one of or corruption corruption cor cor- that ho lie had his hand out for gifts from those he could benefit by his official acts act and that he collected tho cash and nd betrayed betrand the people Do Doheny's henys heny's reply was that the time t na navy and Fall FaU made mado a hard bargain that his companies paid all tho the oil oU was worth |