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Harry Ford Sinclair, No. 10,520 in the Washington, D. C., jail, heard some bad news last week. Already incarcerated for contempt of the Senate, he heard that the U. S. Supreme Court had sustained his six-month sentence for contempt of court. He carried on with his duties in the prison pharmacy, certain in the knowledge that he would spend Christmas and New Year's behind bars...
...before the com mittee as to the sources of his information, then, in accordance with the so-called ethics of that so-called profession, he will decline to say where he got his information and I, for one, would enforce the proceedings against him that are appropriate for a contempt of the Senate. ... If we would show a little determination we would find out where the leak...
...door of the Washington jail swung open hungrily last week to admit Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. The U. S. courts had found him guilty of contempt of the Senate for refusing to answer questions in its 1924 Teapot Dome investigation. Now he was paying for his stubbornness by a 90-day sojourn in a "common jail" with pick pockets, wife-beaters, smalltime crooks...
...there is a possibility that he may pay a return visit to the same institution at a later date. He has been found guilty of contempt of court for putting Burns' detectives on jurors of his first Teapot Dome criminal conspiracy trial. Another six-month sentence hangs over him while the Supreme Court weighs that case...