| Show WOMANS WOMAN'S AMAZES ROXIE STINSON SAYS SHE WAS FRAMED IN HOTEL ROOM ROOMI I IN PLOT TD TO SEAL HER liPS UPS Divorced Divorced Wife of Jesse Smith Declares That Daugherty Offered Hamon Cabinet Job JobI for Harding Support Hints Her I Former Mate Was Victim of Foul Play I I IBy I By WILLIAM K HUTCHINSON International News Service I WASHINGTON w ASHINGTON March 22 With a nervous times hysterical woman on the witness stand the I Wheeler committee today unearthed an amazing story of political intrigue and alleged corruption that ranged from a deal for a cabinet post at the Chicago convention to the direct linking of Attorney General Harry M with an illicit whisky ring I IThe The TIme tor story tOr came t f from om em the tr trent trent- trem trembling nl- nl Sling bling lip lips of or In r yf v I wife wit of the th late lete 1st Jesse Jese I Smith confidante and friend oC oCI o the general I Lii accused Attorney Daughert his Six brother Mel Iel I Daughert and nd other others of ot IT trying Ing to tram frame rne her In a 0 CIC hotel where here her nome name mm a was sins round found on the th register as the th wife vICe ot of o a aman aman aman man whom horn she sho claimed was mere mere- mere merely I ly a 0 business acquaintance She tol toll I the commute commIttee dra- dra dramatically dramatically dra dramatically tha that thal she the would br break her hor confidence with the th d-ad d d She did so ao to the extent of ot re- re re revelling velling In te detail A d I hun bun un dred conversations with her for for- Cormer for former mer mar husband huband In which she sho h said he told her Ier h r of ot a great political m In tn Washington t a that St ui o t pedal In return tor for so much each oh IJ 0 N VS-D VS I Her story atory tory ran rn the th gamut c of ot In I in- in In and corruption dropped Into the thc sliding detail of ot human passions passion and wound up with but ala always veiled In- In insinuation In Insinuations that her husband huband e lips ere sealed not b his bis tod suicide but b bv bi foul toul but pia play Between outbursts of ot weeping Roxie Stinson testified I That 1 Homey Attorney Daughert cd c Jaio J lo Ih Ia Into iSto Oklahoma oil nil king a 1 po pot t In President Pre liar liar- dings ding tinge II cabinet for or throwIng his ort at the lime Chicago eon eon- con Comm convention mention to 2 2 n a giant ring opera operated Ie tho a- a sit aIr n Ir- Ir alice of ot Attorney General Daughert In obtaining 3 That 3 circum circumstances stances ell Jl Jewie Smiths Smith's Smith that lie he lin-J lin III ii Inconstant contant fear fOar of ot his hia life and that lie he died lIC I a few vv do dais II artl aft cr rn aru-rn r ra a bitter blUer quarrel ith In tn the latter had cursed Jeese Jc 4 4 That she sums wn a 1 1111 of oC ofa a 1 up franic In a hotel room en cn d d us n l v I IS S broth of oC tho ho In III nn an to I CI her lips lip 5 That J Attorney tl I t had a t in 4 deal dI smith lIh an all J agent nl ot of tim LIo erman eman io n i earning ammunition tJI comp Other developments de with Ith lie do s sessions Ion Include Decision I 1 Decision of ot the thc neler ne ler committee to subpoena the ii mIS of the th Chicago grand jur Indicted t Charles Charle R B Forbe Forbes to learn what hat prompted t the he altorn attorney y 01 to to testify before It on a personal matterA matter A 2 S A A demand upon Coolidge by Senator tor or orthe the immediate suspension of ot tile the altol n general general- general so 00 o he Ie cannot use ue hi his great gret department to sip sip- sup suppress press pre this Investigation Ins n Report 3 3 Report from a spec pe ally em- em em employed plod bank examiner showing that Jesse Jese Jess Smiths Smith's estate I 1 between and nd In insecurities Insecurities securities to the utter sur ot of othis his former forner wife Ite ABOUr HA HAMOS HAMO'S 0 DEAL L In a 0 three hour oe lon on the witness stand Irs Mrs ear car car ned the tho th committee committe into politic the tho of ot III- III til I corruption In tn high places S Sand and behind the th scenes cenes of ot her for tor- torI for former mer mar husband huband s a private life lIe Although another senate nato com coin cam I had failed to learn elef- elef nt niely ely about the th alleged del deal Airs Mrs Stinson calmly testified that told me II about that dl deal In which ll deserted Leonard Wood and sup sup- supported up ported Harding There Ther was w a conference e boo ho- tuo o-tuo I teen n Smith Howard Min and Jako Jak Hamon at time the Depler hotel Columbus where I they limey talked pier oer time the deal d I he he testified That was alicia bele It up Did Jako Jake Hamon tell you JOU ou he be I IDid was to 10 get et a cabinet post pot out ot of the Chicago convention contention deal deol otI Yes Yeo Yec and Jose Jesse Je Sm th tim toll toU roe me I too she ohe replied Jess Jeso kno know that Joke Jak lImon Hamon had to tod 1 me Inc WilY Why Why was he to get the tho th cabinet position 7 Hamon tamon went nt to the th tb con enon ona as ft a delegate and pledge J to vote vot tor for Wood she tad od Then the deal was as wa put over Or and nd Hamon Holmon Continued on lae l I se Three I I I ROXIE'S STORY SHAKES PROBE Continued Prom One switched snitched hi lila his support to LI IP toP In linking Attorney Attorney- General Genral Daugherty to Illicit liquor deals M Mrs Stinson testified she was only r repeating nhat ahat hat Jesse Jesie Smith lund told her at nt various sarious times limes Sh She J said J Jesse bad had told her nY m times that Daugherty was nas as in on liquOr deal deals Jesse Jpe said the they were vitro going t to get some somo liquor withdrawal per per- permits per permits mits through two tw or er drug companies she he explained Jesse Josse told me they would SIt get the tho permits through Harr Daugh- Daugh erty erty She referred apparently nUY to te tIle lle same deal deals In which John Goroni Goronia a New York wholesale druggist esterday that he had ho paid over to A Orr a close cloe friend ot of the general which was to be split between druggists agents and department ot of justice officials I Did Jesse J s mention Ho ard M a friend of et Daugh Daugh- Daugherty erty s 5 In Iii connection Is lIh ith these thle liquor deals Many times was ass her ber prompt reply Bill Em Orr On Yes Tea a few fow times JESSL WAS l 1 Reaffirming time timo and again that Smith had bad told her the at- at at attorney torney general was wa In on the liquor deals Mrs Stinson Stinson tinson declared worried these that J Jesse over 1 deals s lust before his deathS death'S death Her lion voce olce frequently und 1 emotion 1 Mrs Stinson then told of or an overwhelming overl tear fear dogged 1 the tho footsteps of Jesse JeO Smith This lUll fuir she said fol- fol followed fol followed lowed the grave Her le- le ic-cital ic of ef this tear fear was waa climaxed when Senator Wheeler Senator Democrat of et Montana suddenly a 0 mysterious hint of ot foul toul play loy after aCter ph sh said Jesse Jcsse had hod or v ii or- or ned or-ned rued red Were there any bruises brues on en Jesse a 8 body V T heler heeler healer asked Yes and no autopsy WIlS ever held came the quick reply What bat waa isas as told vou ou eu about scars on en his body Mel Daugherty brother of et the attorney general told lold me that he lund to the Ire and that she told him hint the from Jesse Jee Jesses s a appendicitis ass as open epen so go tar for and in such a condItion they had to use orm 11 to dress It 1 Sirs Mrs rs Hinson said she abe gated es 1 I gated the statement by b seeing iii Smiths's doctor who had bad denied It it lt o 0 HI ti Al All An Did Did you see eo any ny wounds wound on Jesse JIsse a body Wheeler pressed presed Yes there sins waa a n bruise on en his head but t ut they said aid It P me when his body fell against a waste paper basket baet Did Daugherty sl sleep Ip with auth 3 lour our husband hUband at the Vardman hotel the night nigh t J Jesse ese was nas a shot No No Harry slept at LIsp th White WhiteHouse House she Elio replied Harr Harry went direct to the White House when he returned flOm the shack at court house Did Harry Hurry Ii y Sinclair slee sleep at al atthe atthe the House that time too tool loot I did not net hear hoar 1 Sirs Mrs Stinson then pictured her lIer as a dot de frien I 1 o UI who was ns stricken with mortal fen leu of punishment or I death because of ot his Ith the tho attorney Miss Stinson charged Attorney General Daugherty with ith I a plot a month ago to 10 sl silence I her by t prosecution on I the that eli eli- sh occupied t c a ho- ho hete hotel lio te tel I room in lii Cle Cleveland Cleeland eland as the wife seiZe of et Al AI Fink Finh This led lod Senator beeler to do- do demand domand de demand mand that President Coolidge sus- sus suspend sus suspend pend Daugherty at once ence It If ever over a man stooped to a cow cow- cowardly ardly dirty low lew doII doami do II tI tuck lel It ass as v the attorney hen alien he at- at attacked at attacked tacked lacked this pool poem deren ele worn worn- wom woman an said MId It If ho lie hid h lony manhood he lie would retract it mime Imme- imme-dl imme di The prod nt should 1 at once suspend tv lv so 0 he be pan can cannot pan not not use ue his great to date dale Intimidate witnesses es oo oo |
