The life and crimes of Jared Flagg by Eric B. Easton

Author:Eric B. Easton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Academica Press
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

U.S. District Judge Learned Hand

Flagg and several of the other defendants appeared before Judge Learned Hand on Thursday, July 18, and pleaded not guilty to the charges. Hand continued the bail under which the defendants had been released on the previous indictment. The other defendants were to appear later,31 but one of them, the Rev. Schock, died within the month of “intestinal troubles.”32

U.S. District Judge Charles M. Hough

There were no further developments in the Flagg case until December 2, 1912, when one of Flagg’s attorneys, Wade H. Ellis, filed a demurrer to the charges against him.33 Arguments were heard by Judge Charles M. Hough, who overruled the demurrer in early February. “The substantive charges came down to this,” Hough said, “that Flagg pretended to speculate in stocks for the benefit of customers; he did not do it, yet paid them money as if he had speculated profitably, and then sought to obtain additional customers by representing how profitable had been the operations of first comers. Nothing but a trial can show whether this story is true.”34

With the demurrers to their indictments having been overruled, Flagg and company again pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on February 16. Trial was set for the March term and bail bonds were continued in all cases. 35 In fact, the trial did not begin until October 19, 1914, and Flagg largely kept his name out of the newspapers until then.36 According to Flagg, however, Assistant U.S. District Attorney Thompson was extremely busy during the delay.

Thirty days passed—a thousand days passed—during which time Prosecutor Thompson poured out the people’s money. He engaged several accountants and after they had worked three years on my stolen books making, under his direction, straight entries appear crooked, and after discrediting my most important witnesses by having them indicted, and after devising and revising one hundred and forty-two lies, as itemized in my “bill of exceptions” he finally felt prepared to trick a jury into rendering a verdict against me.37

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