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Show Land fraud Decision Against Defendants Wealthy Californians Lose Out in Resisting Processes to Carry Cases to Washington. WASHINGTON. Mny 20 In the rases of Frederick A. Hyde and Henrj P. Dlmond charged v ith complicity In Western land frauds, the Supreme court of the United States today affirmed the decision of the 'ir, ult court of the northern district of California. Cali-fornia. That decision directed the removal re-moval of the two men to the District "t Columbia for trial and denied the petition for B writ of habeas '-nrpus Justice Brown delivered the opinion. Indicted With Benson. Hyde and Dlmond were Indicted under section 6444 of the revised statutes, with John . Benson and J. T. Schneider, for conspiracy to defraud the Cnlted States out of large tracts of public lands The indictments In their ase-';, ns In that of Benson, were returned In the Supreme court of the District of Columbia, and they have so far resisted all processes to bring them Into this Jurisdiction, even to tho extent of carrying the case to the Supreme court of the Cnlted States where it was today decided against them Tho defendants are all residents of the Pacific Coast States, and some are reputed re-puted to be very wealthy The operations with which they are charged were carried car-ried on In California and Oregon, where it Is asserted that they had fraudulently secured hundreds of thousands of acres of valuable land. The plan of the alleged al-leged conspirators, as outlined by the Government, was to obtain by illegal means titles to State school lands located lo-cated In forest reserves In California and Oregon, and to relinipnsh the titles thus secured to the United Stales under the exchango provisions of the act of lc;7. and to thus obtain patents from the Cnlted States for other lands outside of the reserves. In these operations they used either reaJ or fictitious names, as circumstances seemed to suggest. |