Last week a Federal jury in Manhattan found Joseph Wright Harriman guilty of ordering $1,713,000 worth of false entries in the books of his now closed Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., of misapplying $600,000 in assets. On the stand Defendant Harriman, much improved physically and mentally since his half-mad nights from a sanatorium last year, craftily tried to shift the blame to his co-defendant and onetime executive vice president, Albert Murray Austin. The jury acquitted Austin on all counts.
Federal Judge John C. Knox complimented the jurymen on their five weeks' service:...
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