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Show REPUBLICAN LEADER FOUND IN CONTEMPT Editor of Newspaper Also Punished; Impeachment Story's Publication Publica-tion Is Cause of Action. JERSEY City, X. J., Jan. 22. William Wil-liam P. Vcrdon, Republican leader f Hudosn county, and ITaddon Ivins. editor edi-tor of tho Hudson Dispatch of Union Hill, N. J., were found guilty of contempt con-tempt of court today before a supreme court justice and two justices of the court of common pleas. Verdon was sentenced to thirty days in jail p.nd fined $250, while the editor was fined $10. At the same time the Dispatch was fnund guilty and fined $250. Verdon Ver-don filed au appeal and was released on bond of $1000. Publication of a story that impeachment impeach-ment proceedings were to bo started against .ludee Tnnant ai:d Prolocutor Hudspeth or" Hudson county, in connection connec-tion with the case of Samuel Smith, chairman of the Republican county committee, tried on a charge of conspiracy con-spiracy to exact a bribe, was the basis of the cha rge aga inst the newspaper and its editor. A reporter testified that Verdon provided the alleged facts on which the stnry was written. |