Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1919 — TO DECIDE IF SUPREME COURT LEAKS ARE CRIMINAL. [ARTICLE]

TO DECIDE IF SUPREME COURT LEAKS ARE CRIMINAL.

Washington, D. C., Dec. 16. Numerous conferences were held today by officials of the department of justice in an effort to develop if there really was anything criminal in alleged leaks of supreme court decisions. Official comment was refused, but it was made clear that the government regarded the premature publication of its investigation as extremely unfortunate. No evidence has been discovered to warrant the prosecution of any persons investigated, and it was said that further inquiry into statements by individuals" that they had advance information of decisions by which they could make fortunes in the stock market had been handicapped by publicity. An attorney employed in the department of justice, who was mentioned as one of the persons concerned in, the alleged leaks, has not been removed or otherwise disciplined, it was said. James D. Maher, clerk of the supreme court, issued a statement denying there had been any leak in his office.