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Letter from Ruel Rounds to Charles J. Bonaparte

Letter from Ruel Rounds to Charles J. Bonaparte

U.S. Marshal Rounds acknowledges several messages Attorney General Bonaparte has sent pertaining to the trial of Senator William Edgar Borah. Borah’s friends believe he will not receive a fair trial. Rounds says he is confused by this concern and explains that he has done nothing to prevent Borah from receiving a fair trial. Rounds requests that Bonaparte begin an investigation to satisfy himself about the truth of the complaints.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-07

Telegram from William Allen White to Theodore Roosevelt

Telegram from William Allen White to Theodore Roosevelt

William Allen White informs President Roosevelt that Judge Frank Sigel Deitrich is drawing his jury from U.S. Marshall Ruel Rounds’s list, which consists of men who will likely convict regardless of the presented evidence. White pleads with Roosevelt to remind Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte of his assurance that Rounds would not select the jury.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-29