TRIAL FOR FRAUD

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1926, Page 2

TRIAL FOR FRAUD

CASE AGAINST EX-CABINET MINISTER. [Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.J NEW YORK. Sept. 8. The Government has unfolded a veritable detective story whereby it expects to prove that the ox-Cabinet Minister Daugherty and the ex-official Miller (Custodian of Alien Property in war’ time) have defrauded it. The United States Attorney, Mr Emory Duckner, made his opening statement to the jury and promised to prove among other things that 391,000 dollars’ worth of Liberty Bonds ‘came into the possession of the late John King, a. Republican National committeeman; that 00.000 dollars’ worth of tbe.se bonds were traced directly into the possession of Miller; that the day after King collected 2120 dollars worth of coupons from 100.000 dollars worth of Liberty Bonds, and that a deposit of that amount was paid into Daugherty’s hank account. Mr Duckner told how Richard Morton, of Frankfort, Germany, negotiated through Daugherty’s confidants for the return to the Swiss Corporation, which ho controlled of 7,000,000 dollars worth of assets of the American Metals Coy. which were seized during the war by Miller, as Alien Property Custodian, the assets being ordered to be returned after much negotiation.