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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



June 25. 1922 



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LONG- KNIGHT 

 LUMBER COMPANY 



INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA 



WALNUT ® HARDWOODS 



VENEERS 



Mahogany. American Walnut, Quartered White Oak 



Manufacturers (Si Wholesalers 





most prominent lawyers. The charges have been spread upon 

 record of the Hamilton County Common Pleas Court and a copy 

 has been sent to Attorney Hawke. 



Hearing of the disbarment proceedings will be held June 26 

 before Judges Stanley Struble, Edward T. Dixon and Fred L. 

 Hoffman. The special committee which preferred the charges 

 will act as prosecutors of Attorney Hawke in the trial. Hawke 

 will be entitled to be represented by a lawyer at his trial, w^hich 

 will proceed as any other court trial. The typewritten charges 

 are voluminous and detailed. They were drawn up as the re- 

 sult of conferences in which many witnesses w^ere examined. 

 While the report does not cite the fact, members of the commit- 

 tee stated Attorney Hawke also appeared before the committee. 



The case arises from the situation resulting from a city ordi- 

 nance which prohibits aliens from operating poolrooms. It is 

 charged that Hawke, as attorney for several aliens w^ho were 

 poolroom owners, organized a company know^n as The Lincoln 

 Poolroom Company, in w^hich the aliens w^ere to own stock. The 

 poolroom licenses, however, it is charged, were issued to the 

 company and thus the operation of the city ordinance avoided. 



The committee representing the Cincinnati Bar Association 

 charges that Hawke did not organize the company in good faith, 

 but he purposely and knowingly devised and executed a fraudu- 

 lent and unlawful scheme and subterfuge in order to circumvent 

 the provisions of said ordinance. 



The charges allege that "in fact the Lincoln Poolroom Com- 

 pany was not the proprietor and had no interest therein as Hawke 

 well knew and it was thereby intended to deceive the city auditor 

 and other officers of the city so as to permit aliens to continue to 

 be proprietors of billiard and pool tables." 



It is charged that the application by Hawke for licenses 

 for the company was "a fraud, in that said company did not then 

 own ;,aid tables." 



I have nothing whatever to say," attorney Hawke declared 



