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Show HBINZB CELEBRATES ACQUITTAL BY JURY NEW YORK. May 13. F Augustus I-Iclnzc's friends kept him busy today receiving re-ceiving congratulations on his victory In his two and a half year battle with the government, won last night through his acquittal, after one of the most sensa-tlonal sensa-tlonal scenes ever witnessed in the federal fed-eral courts here. Helnze beamed on every one and expressed ex-pressed his satisfaction at having been relieved at last of the burden of carrying on a contest which had cost him. he said, between $4,000,000 and S5.000.000, In damage dam-age to his credit and In legal expenses. Heinzc says he intends to return to Montana. Mon-tana. The one indictment for conspiracy still hanging over him Is not thought likely to Interfere with his plans In this respect, for, in view of his acquittal on the charges of misapplication and over-certification, the remaining indictment probably prob-ably will not be pressed. Helnze's trial lasted more than two weeks. When the jury brought In the verdict of acquittal, the throng of Helnze's friends In the courtroom, many of them from Montana, choercd and yelled hysterically. Ilelnzc afterward entertained his friends at a down-town hotel, where their cheers wfoke the echoes, and afterward was congratulated by his counsel and many oilier friends at the uptown hotel where he has been living. Severe criticism of United States District Dis-trict Attorney Wise, who prosecuted him. and of the grand Jury by which he was Indicted, was made by F. Augustus Helnze today. He also took a fling at eastern newspapers. "A district-attorney who first suspects and then believes In a calamity." ho said. "You folks In the cast seem to be mistaken mis-taken in the rights and powers of Jurors, federal or otherwise. It would be well for New York jurors to realize that the federal attorney is not the judge of facta j nor of evidence in the grand Jury room. "Under the system here, grand jurors i aro toys and playthings and virtually j tools of the prosecutor. Ills power is tremendous. He breaks a man. ruins his business and discredits him with a single word. "Then como the newspapers. In New York thev overawe everything and everybody. every-body. Frequently they bow to the federal fed-eral prosecutors. The man he Indicts is dragged through their pages until every act and deed of his life is spread before the public. Ho Is half tried and convict-od convict-od before he roaches tho court." |