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...does the Sergeant at Arms of the U. S. Senate sleep in a different room from his wife...
...State or Federal benches. For a moment they sat in solemn silence while a clerk announced that the House had passed and asked the Senate's concurrence in bills for the relief of John Thomas Simpkin, P. Jean des Garennes, Christopher Cott, Seth B. Simmons and others. Then Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney reported to the Senate that he had procured the attendance before the Senate of L. H. Brittin, Gilbert Givvin, and Harris M. Hanshue, air company officials accused of taking letters under Senate subpena from the office of their Lobbyist William P. MacCracken Jr. (TIME...
...night. Next day Mr. Jurney asked Mr. MacCracken if he would like to take a ride to the Senate Office Building. They drove to the Capitol together, met Mr. Leslie Garnett, U. S. District Attorney to whom Mr. Jurney introduced Mr. Mac-Cracken. Under cover of this distraction, the Sergeant at Arms slipped into Mr. Garnett's automobile and escaped from his unwelcome guest. For the remainder of the week-end the whereabouts of Sergeant and Mrs. Jurney became as uncertain as the whereabouts of Mr. MacCracken during the previous two days...
Monday morning, however, all were reunited in the court of Justice Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate...
...What did the Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate do with the body of Mr. MacCracken...