JURY-TAMPERING
WARRANT WITHDRAWN AMERICAN FRAUD TRIAL By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Friday. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Harry Sinclair on a charge of tampering with a jury, but was later withdrawn. Sinclair and Albert Fall, formerly United States Secretary of the Interior, had been charged with conspiring to defraud the Government in connection with the lease of the Teapot Dome oil reserve. Mason Day, an alleged accomplice with Sinclair in the engaging of detectives to shadow the jurors, was held ‘under a bond of £ 5,000. Judge Siddons, who had declared the earlier proceedings a mis-trial, expressed regret at the impossibility of fixing an earlier date and set down the commencement of the new trial for January 16. —A. and N.Z. Fall was taken ill at his hotel. Doctors declare that he is suffering from a general breakdown and pulmonary congestion of the right lung. He is believed to be in a serious condition.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 1
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