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Show JURIST IS ACCUSED Bf FOBMER CONVICT Charges of Criminal Conspiracy Con-spiracy Made Against Judge Landis. CHICAGO, Sept. 11. Charges of criminal conspirac3r wore filed in the United States district' court today against Federal Judge K. M. Landis, Assistant District Attorneys El wood S. Godman and Harry A. Parkin and Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Silver. Tho charges were made by Attorne3' Hyman Epstein and were Msed on the affidavits of Max Gerber, a convict at. Fort Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, made while Epstein was serving a fifteen months' sentence for perjury committed before Judge Landis. Epstein charged that he had been sont to' prison on the strength of a conspiracy framed b3' Judge Landis, the two government attorne3's and Mr. and Mrs. Silver. Epstein represented the Silvers in a bankruptcy proceeding. Silver confessed con-fessed to perjury and gave testimouv-which testimouv-which resulted in Epstein's sentence to the federal "penitentiarj'. Gerber, who was a cellmato of Silver, Sil-ver, stated in his affidavit that Silver had told him that his testimony, which sent Epstein to prison, was false. Epstein revealed the fact that as a convict clerk in the mail department of the prison ho had read all of Silver's Sil-ver's letters to and from his wife. He aroused Judge Landis 's wrath when ho read from a note book, quotations from a letter from Mrs. Silver. Turning to District Attornej' Wilker-son. Wilker-son. Judge Landis said: "For your information T will say T will never again send a prisoner from this court to any penitentiary whore a. man's privato letters are not. kept from tho inspection of other prisoners." The charges were made in Judge Landis 's court "by Epstoin, who introduced intro-duced the affidavit while pleading for a return of his right as attorney to practice in the United States court. |