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Show GROSSCUP INDICTMENT IS QUASHED BY COURT CHARLESTON, 711., Feb. 2S. Tho in-dictmont in-dictmont against Judgp Fcter S. Gross-cup Gross-cup of the United States circuit court, and lour oilier directors of an elpctric railway, charging manslaughter because' of an acidcnt last August, wore today quashed. Judge. N. W. Thompson, of the circuit court, gran I cd the motion askiug for the asliiiig of the indictments It affected af-fected five directors of tlm Mattoon City .Railway company and grew out, of I a head-on collision on August 30, 1907 in which eighteen people were killed ' and thirty injured. The other directors who ven set free wore Marshall K Sanipscll, FranriH S. Peabodv, ICdgar A Porter and A. V. Underwood. |