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Show CHEATED CLOSE FRIENDS OUT If A FORTUNE Men ho Stood High in Chicago Business Circles Forgot Their Moral Obligations. CHICAGO, Julj ' La Fayette McWfl-Itama, McWfl-Itama, a millionaire, a former partner In the firm of Marshall Field ft Co.. and a cousin of the late Mrs. William McKln-le McKln-le ; Itaniel M Lord, former vice president presi-dent of the Metropolitan Trust and Savings Sav-ings bank of this city, and D. NV. Kim-ball, Kim-ball, a. promoter, were today declared by Judge Mack to be guilty of misappropriating misappropri-ating $)2 BOO belonging to their personal friends. The finding of the eourl Was In a suit brought by friends of McWllilama and t out to Bet aside a transaction in which 1 they Invested 7O,O00 In Indiana oil land ; beton mo complalnanta became Inter-eatod Inter-eatod in the land, McWilKums and Lord had trier! to elJ ll without BUCCeSB for one and had represented to the complainants com-plainants that n was worth $70,000. Later they renewed options for Ju7."oo. and then according to the evidence in the ease Induced their friends to enter Into a deal to purchase their property for f 70.000. The complainants In ihe ease were .all personal friends and neighbors and follow fol-low club members of Lord and McWllilama McWll-ilama and tho suit has caused much bit-tor bit-tor feeling among them. Judge Alack In deciding the ease said: "The defendants In this c;isc were led hv their desire for money to forget the obligations of friendship and even to travel beyond the permissible in law.' |