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Reuf Later Schmitz
e''e '7'ii' was set free after
furnishing $135,000 bail to cover the
other twenty-nine indictments pending
against him and rode away home in
his big red automobile cheered by a
crowd of his friends aud supporters.
He had been confined in Jail ten
months.
Capitol Builders Found Guilty.
Contractor John Fl. Sanderson, ex-
Auditor General William p. Snyder.
ex-State Treasurer William L. Ma
thuses and superintendent of Pub
lie Grounds and Buildings Shumaker
were found guilty Of conspiracy to
cheat and defraud the commonwealth
OF Pennsylvania in the furnishing of
the new state capitol. Immediately
after the announcement of the verdict
motions were made for new trials for
all four defendants. Meantime the de-
PENDANTS will remain out ON bail. Ten
other defendants are under Indictment
in thirty eight cases.
Five Years For Banker Walsh
John R. Walsh. the wrecker of the
Chicago National bank, was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment, but got
from Judge Grosscup supersedeas.
/ which carries the case to higher courts
and leaves Walsh free on a $4,000
bond.
Campaign Assessments Illegal.
That it is a crime for any one to ASH
federal official to contribute to the
funds intended for political purposes
is the gist of the important decision
handed down by the United States
court in reversing the federal district
court in Texas, which had declined to
hold Chairman Thayer Of the Repub-
lican state committee for writing a
letter to an officeholder in 1906 asking
percentage of his salary for the cam
paign The lower court had held that
it was no offense against the civil serv-
ice law unless the request were made
In public building, but this view was
rejected by the supreme court. The
decision gives power to the civil sery-
ice commission to prosecute such cases.
Ice Trust Men Released.
BY order of Judge Brough of Toledo
the three ice dealers serving a sentence
of six months Imprisonment for COM
bining to restrain trade were released
from jail March after having been
confined thirty-seven days, this action
being on motion to suspend sentence
on the ground that the men and their
families had been sufficiently punished
ito serve the ends of justice" All
three were said to be in poor health
and two without means.
chicaeo's Anarchist Scare.
The circumstances surrounding the
killing Of the youthful Russian Jew
named Averbuch by Chief Shippy of
Chicago which resulted in a general
outburst of popular indignation against
all anarchists and in the effort to round
them up, are now meeting with some
suspicion among the radical settlement
workers and prominent Socialist and
reform leaders of the city. The sister
of Ayerbuch demands an investigation
and the Jews of the city have raised a
large fund to fight for her rights She
insists that her brother had no knife or
gun in his possession when he left
their home the morning he called on
the chief and says that by Shippy's
own story the boy made no attack I'M
til he was seized by the chief. Louis
F. Post, editor of the Public, demands
that the law take its course against
Shippy if it shall appear that he killed
Averbuch when he might have arrested
him with safety. He charges that the
papers which take advantage of the in
eident to inhame public opinion against
free speech and free press are the real
anarchists. Friends of the dead Rus
sian say that his purpose in seeing
Shippy was to get from him what in
Russia is known as Character" as
he was looking for work and had been
sending money home to his folks.
South Carolina Court Clash.
The action of Federal Judge Pritch-
ard in naming receivers for the South
Carolina disDnnSarv fund amounting TO