I wonder whether this defense of O'Hara has anything to do with the lie he has spread that he is a Harvard man?

Of course I am. I have acted all along with a full realization of that, and I am perfectly willing to have the people pass upon those actions at the proper time. I would call Professor Chafee's attention to the fact that I am a graduate of Harvard Law School.

But I would also like to call his attention to what Mr. O'Hara has said about his being a graduate of Harvard. This may show Professor Chafee something about the kind of man he is lending himself to defend.

When Walter E. O'Hara first came to Rhode Island he told the substantial citizens who were induced to invest money in his race track that he was a Harvard graduate.

This is a favorite story of his. The Boston Record carried a long story of the "career of Walter O'Hara", during which they printed a picture of "Walter E. O'Hara, Racing Czar of Rhode Island, as he appeared at the age of 23 when he was a student at Harvard.

The man who wrote that series even went to see O'Hara who told him "I was out of College five years before I was making as much money as I did as a student". And O'Hara provided him with details of his career at Harvard. Is the Harvard CRIMSON helping out an old Harvard grad?

Well, I have a telegram today from David W. Bailey of the Harvard Alumni Directory. This telegram from Cambridge states: "Name Walter E. O'Hara does not appear on official Harvard records of former students in any University department. Walter's brother Neal is a member of Class of 1915."

When Walter O'Hara was 23 he was not in Harvard; he was in Fall River . . . and he was a married man--married to a lady who later divorced him on the grounds of cruel and abusive treatment. But that is another story. What I wanted to make clear is the false protense of this man as to his Harvard connections.