OIL SCANDAL
CRIMINAL CHARGES OF / CONSPIRACY ■ AGAINST FALL AND DOHENY ' " Washington, November 10. One of the most sensational trials in American • history will open before the District of Columbia Supreme Court on November 22, when the former Secretary of the Interior, ex-Senator A. B. Fall; and Mr. Doheny .will face criminal charges of conspiracy' to defraud the United States Government in connection with the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve lease. Fall and Doheny were arraigned .to-day, pleaded not guilty, and were 'bound over for trial.
This is the first of the oil scandal •ndminal cases to reach the stage of the personal appearance of parties in Court, five years after the episode on >hich the charges are based and three years after the Senate Oil Committee’s investigations exposed the affair which shocked the whole of the United States.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 9
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138OIL SCANDAL Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 41, 12 November 1926, Page 9
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