Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-06 | Page 14 | Jury Indicts Army Colonel

JURY INDICTS ARMY COLONEL C Continued from I Tase One Ond army general adjutant said laid It lilt I is affirmatively established that you yoi caused government business business business busi busi- ness connected with patent claims with which you were were associated in your our official capacity to be placed with a law firm with which a member mem mcm- ber of ot your immediate family wa was empl employed r It is further further- established that you engaged in private legal egal activities s stor for tor compensation as attorney for I firms whose interests were ere cos closely ly related to the interests of of- the government gov gov- So scandalous was your action in this latter matter that positive i steps looking to your trial by court cout martial therefore would be taken take did not the statute of oC limitations set et forth in the articles of war Interpose Interpose in interpose In- In a S bar bat to the prosecution of ot ruch UCh UCha a 3 trial The secretary of or war however directs me to convey to you his d deepest censure for both these acts which he lc regards as of or the ethics and standards of the service rind nd to spread upon your our military re record o d this letter of reprimand as ast t the e official expression of the war departments department's reprobation for your our established St conduct The acts in question were said s. to l have avo occurred in 1931 1932 Wr Writing ting to Chairman of the house military committee fter litter the thc war department had made madeUs Its Us own own investigation of ot the case Dern said that although a court rn martial for McMullen was prevented prevent prevent- fd ed d by the statute pf ot of limitations he Was vas Informed that the officer could be tried before a civil court For that reason the secretary lidded added I III am transmitting a copy of or the thc report of investigation to the thc general attorney of the United tates for such action looking to Colonel McMullen's trial in the thc federal federal fed fed- eral courts as the facts of the case casc may be found to warrant arrant The rhe department of justice re referred referred re- re the case casc to the United States district attorn attorney for the District of C Columbia l I Although still formally assigned t to the judge generals general's office office of of- fice lice McMullen listed as a resident of 91 Palo Alto Cal has not been on dive active duty for several months because because beuse be be- cause use of illness I Coincident with the publication cf of- the charges Chairman McSwain wrote the secreta secretary of war asking that McMullen's projected retirement retire retire- m ment nt for physical disability be held up because the committee e believed it had it-had had uncovered additional information information mation nation concerning acts which occurred oc oc- oc- oc within the time covered by bythe the statute of limitations