| Show I I PENSION FRAUDS Federal Judge at Chattanooga Calls I Particular Attention to Swindlers Chattanooga Tomi Oct 1 Judge C D Clark presiding over tho session of tho United States court for the Eastern district of Tennessee which convened hero today In hie charge to the grand Jury made special reference to pensions and said I Is i perfectly nKlonlshlng how bold apppllcants for penulonn are becoming In forging affidavits and especially the I tw names of nonresident negroes who can i never be found This class of fraud Is 1 I I S becoming so prevalent that even persons per-sons claiming to be SpanlBhAJncrlcan I war veterans are beginning to put In I claims tljat are no without fraud Judge Clark laid special stress upon this class of fraud and cited an Instance I of a case at Knoxvlnc Tenn during the Into rtoselon of the United States court where an applicant for pension produced pro-duced affidavits that he was wounded In the charge at San Juan but finally admitted that he had never been nearer San Juan than the State of Georgia |
