Show POMERENE ENE NEAR NEA I ClOSE IN TRIAl I Or OF lE LEASE SE CASE Roosevelt in Deposition Declares He Knew Nothing Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- ing of Teapot Dome Lease Until Closed CHEYENNE Wyo 10 March 12 By ByA ByA A A. A P. P The r.-The The records is of tha bank accounts of Albert B. B Fall former secretary of the Interior were of offered offered ot- ot as a part of the court annals of the Teapot om case before Federal Federal Federal Fed Fed- eral Judge T. T Blake Kennedy here today who reserved his ruling as asto asto asto to their The first of the account books with the First National bank of ot El EI ElPaso ElPaso Paso were offered by the government government government govern govern- ment In an attempt to prove that Liberty bonds were exchanged b be between between be- be tween Secretary Fall FaU and Harry F. F Sinclair head of the Mammoth Oil company which was given the lease on the Teapot Dome naval oil oU reserve The testimony regarding the banks bank's records then continued The question of t the admissibilIty of Falls Fall's bank account arose wh when n L. L C. C Dunbar cashier of the First I National bank of El Paso Texas I was called to fo the stand Under di direct direct dl- dl questioning by Owen J J. Roberta Roberta Rob Rob- erta ens of government counsel it was shown that Dunbar was assistant cashier of the bank from December 22 1919 to April 28 1 1924 24 the pe perIod period pe- pe nod covered by the bank hank record which was subpoenaed The defense objects to this account account account ac ac- ac- ac count as an exhibit because it is not competent or relevant as to any I issue before this court ourt Interposed I J J. W. W Lacey of defense counsel No defendant here is In any way way a II party to that a account count As indicated indicated indi indi- now it Is not intended to connect any defendant with this item We will later have a witness to I show it has a bearing on the case cast I and will connect t the e defendant SInclair Sinclair Sinclair Sin Sin- I clair with it it said Mr Mr Roberts I but we must get the number and I deposit of the bonds In order to trace them back to their source Mr 11 Lacey then plunged into a pile of ot court rulings t to sup support ort his I contention that the bank records sh should ld b be barred from the case |