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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...
There was little satisfaction for Convict Sinclair in the knowledge that, by simultaneous decision of the Supreme Court, he was to have a friend in the jail with him-Manhattan's Henry Mason Day, the friend who had tried to help him in his first oil scandal trial and received a four-month sentence as a result...
...followed an eleven-week hearing before the trial justice. Sinclair's defense was that he had had the jurors followed to protect them against federal influences; that in no case had the operatives made direct contact with the jurors. The trial justice sentenced Sinclair to six months in jail, Day to four months, William J. Burns to 15 days and son William Sherman Burns, to pay a $1,000 fine...
This did not mollify the Press Gallery. Behind Newsman Mallon they took their stand, the while jibing him about a possible jail sentence. Born at Mattoon, Ill., a product of the Notre Dame journalism school, he had cub-reported on Louisville papers, joined the United Press in New York in 1919, been shifted to Washington in 1921. With the Senate now on his trail, he became a Public Character. He made a talkie for Pathé Newsreel, into which Pathé edited a shot of an Abraham Lincoln impersonator declaiming the Gettysburg finale...
...Dennett, fined $300 for mailing her "obscene" pamphlet, The Sex Side of Life, appealed the conviction. She said that she would go to jail rather than...