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Show ATTORNEY DECLARES HE HAD AUTHORITY FROM GOVERNOR DENVER, Colo., Sept. 16. Attorney General Fred Farrar said today that the information filed at Trinidad, charging Horace N. Hawkins and Fred W. Clark with subornation of perjury, had been prepared by him under the authorization of Governor George A. Carlson. The attorney general said that after the arrest of Grover Hall on a perjury charge the prisoner made a confession that he had perjured himself In an affidavit affi-davit in which he swore that he had been coerced to agree to a verdict of guilty in the Lawson trial. Later, Farrar said, Hall signed an affidavit that lie bad been bribed to make the original affidavit used in Lawson's motion for n new trial. Horace M. Hawkins issued the following follow-ing statement regarding the information: informa-tion: The matter is not a surprise to me, in view of the exceptionally bitter struggle going on in the state, in which, in loyalty to my clients, t have been compelled to take part. From time to time T have heard veiled threats of personal charges against me, but I have not been and will not be swerved in my duty by any charge that may be made. I have no fear that any friend or acquaintance ac-quaintance of mine will believe that I would do other than make a legitimate legiti-mate defense of a client, and the final result of any investigation will so show. : |