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Show FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN SPOKANE SCANDAL SPOKANE, Wash., April 28. Attorney Attor-ney M. J. Gordon, former chief justice of this state, who was indicted by the Spokane grand jury yesterday on a specific charge of embezzlement ol $0200 from tho Great Northern nail-road nail-road company, resigned J'rom the supreme su-preme court, bench to become Spokane counsel for the railroad company and served in that capacity for several years." , , lie left the company lasi. summer auu wcut. to Tacoinn. Soon thereafter rumors ru-mors ran over tho stale that ho had embezzled .'S0.000 of the company's funds The name of .lurigc Milo A. Root of the supreme court was linked with lhat of Gordon's in the rumors, which became so persistent, that the chief -justice openly brought the matter lo tho attention of tho State Bar association as-sociation and asked for an investigation. investiga-tion. A committee of the bar association after an extended infinity submitted a report finding that Gordon, as attorney attor-ney for the Groat Northern, had written writ-ten a decision in a case in which tho company was a party, sent it to Chief Counsel Begg at St. Paul for approval, and on its return to head office passed it on to Judge Root, who offered it as his opinion, and had it adopted as the decision of the court. Judge Eoot protested that his offense of-fense had been nothingi more serious thau " indiscretious of friendship," but resigned from the supremo bench. The committee of the State Bar association asso-ciation advised the convening of a grand jury in Spokane county for further fur-ther investigation, ami Gordon's indictment indict-ment was the first fruits of the grand jury's labors. Prosecuting Attorney Fred Pugh has charged that high officials of the Great Northern are trying to shield Gordon, the presumption being that they fear a judicial searchlight. |