The 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.
Convict Sinclair did not hurry to serve his sentence. When commitment papers, were signed in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, Sinclair was not present.
In 1897 another rich man, Elverton R. Chapman, had...
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