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Show jerome is mm THE HIMH IIP Willing to Consider Reduction of Bail if Indicted Broker Will Tell All. NEW YORK, Aug. 17. In opposing a plea for a reduction of the $50,000 bond under which Donald L. PerBch, a note broker, is being hold on a grand larceny indictment, District Attornoy Jerome today declared his belief that tho wrongful sale of Ilcinze mining stocks collateral in which Persch is alleged al-leged to have figured was but one of tho ramifications of a conspiracy in which "men in high finance" had "combined to crush a rival." Persch was arraigned to plead to tho indictment which oliargcs him with having hav-ing procured from the Windsor Trust, company and sold about $100,000 worth of mining slock which M. M. Joyce, a broker, who frequently acts for Augustus Augus-tus Hcittze, had deposited as collateral collat-eral .for a loan negotiated through the trust company. In arguing for a reduction re-duction of bail John R Mclntyrc, Persch 's attorney, declared that Persch had been "a cats-paw in the hands of wiser and more experienced men." Persch 's attorney was unable to get the court to consent to the reduction of bail. Mr. Jerome said that if be-foro be-foro Monday Persch did decide to tell the district attorney's offico the entire facts concerning the transaction in which it was claimed he was "an instrument in the hands of dishonest people," tho district attorney's office would be glad to consider the reduction of bail. |