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Show BIG GOES FREE Ofl TREASON CHARGE XFTV YORK, Feb. 14. By direction of the court and at the request of the federal fed-eral district attorney, the- jury In the trial for treason of Faul C. IL Hennig today returned a verdict of not guilty. Hennig. a naturalized German, was accused ac-cused of tampering with parts of gyroscopes gyro-scopes manufactured at the plant of the E. W. Bliss company in Brooklyn, where he formerly was foreman. The gyroscopes were Intended for use in torpedoes made for the L'nited States j government. Mehin J. France, the federal attorney, i addressing the court i".st as the rase was i to go to the jury, said that after con-I con-I sidermg the eviden.ee put in by the de-j de-j fense he found himself in "a t roubled state of mind" and that, while he could i place the burden of determining Hennig s guilt or innocence on the jury, he believed be-lieved it wag his duty both to the government gov-ernment and to the public to follow h s own conscience and ask for a court's direction di-rection to the jury that Hennig be acquitted. ac-quitted. He did this. Mr. Fiance saM, without impeaching the testimony rf witnesses wit-nesses produced by the government. During Dur-ing the trial trie defence had developed phases of which he ha d known nothing at the beginning1, he said. A. K Ving. Hermits attorney, tnH Fnitd States Judge Thomas I. Chatfit-H he wished to congratulate the government govern-ment for having in the district atmrney s office "a big man" like Franc. Hennir. during Mr. Frame's a.ilress. broke a own for the first time and wept. I lis wife and th-re children, one of whom in namM after Theodore Roosevelt, were in court j when Hennig was acquitted. Hennig's -vise was the first trial for treason in the United Statse durirg the present war. Judge Chatfield. in discharging Hennie. said the men who gave the informarion against him apparently ere misled in j ! their conclusions and thought t hey w.ere doing their duty as eood citizens. "Vou will prove your manhood and your good citizenship." continued the Jude. "by looking at this thing from the st tnd-point tnd-point from which the jury has looki at it and not by merely eoing out of the courtroom with the Idea that you axe : against everyone or that everyone ii- against you. But I fel that If is pnpr I I to cau'.ion you against carrying with v ! I fee lines that you might have had wh:!1 I j the charge was over your head." i "I thank you as a faithful American citizen," replied Hennig. |