STANDING TRIAL
EX-ATTORNEY-GENERAL
AN AMERICAN SENSATION
ALLEGED FRAUD IN ALIEN PROPERTY.
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) . NEW YORK, 6tli September. The first trial of a former member of Cabinet in the history of the United States begins to-morrow morning in tho Federal Court, when ex-Attorney-General Henry M. Daugherty appears with Colonel Miller, formerly Custodian of Alien Property, to answer an indictment charging them with defrauding the Government of their "unbiassed and unprejudiced services" through sharing with others 391,000 dollar bonds and a chequo for 50,000 dollars, allegedly in return for arranging the recovery by tho Societe Suisse pour Values de Metaux of seven million dollars in the assets of an American metal company impounded- during the war as alien property. Daugherty and Miller pleaded not guilty upon arraignment last year. The trial will be attended by sensational disclosures concerning the administration of property taken from the Germans upon the United States' declaration of war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1926, Page 9
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