Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-04-03 | Page 1 | Sargent Bares Sager's Ouster

SARGENT BARES SAGER101ISIER Lead , Case Attorney's Story of Quitting Voluntarily Volun-tarily Meets Denial NIW YORK. April I (AP) Per- mer United Slatea Attorney General Gen-eral John 0, Sargent leetified in federal eeurt today thai h bad r. gueatad Arthur N. Sager an af hrae alterney an trial far jury bribery, la resign aa an assistant attorney general because f Sater'i drinking. Pager. Joseph Pliallerk and t.'d-ward t.'d-ward II. Ketuiulda are accused of giving 111 to John Crus to hold out for acquittal In the recent I'lah Lead trial. Pager had teat l( led he left Iho department of Justlr voluntarily. vol-untarily. Mr. Har gent saM lie had lol.l Ra. gar that If repnrla of hia drinking were true, he (stager waa not a suitable man lo arrve Ilia der. ment. "When Pager told me that lie did drink at times." the former attor-nry attor-nry general continued. "I told him lie had better sever hla connection with my office. He could resign if he wanted to, but If he did nut I would have to remove lilm. "Aa I recollect it, he rrelgncd at once."