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Show FEDERAL OFFICIALS 1 M li PLOT Witness Claims District Attorney At-torney and Deputy Marshal Mar-shal Involved. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11. J. R. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, I'nitf-d States district attorney, and William Cavanaugh. deputy United States niars.'ial. were ij&ined today as being implicated im-plicated in an alleged plot to equip with o c rnmetit arrr.b an illeul expedition into Mexico, by a witness at the preliminary prelimi-nary hearing of '"General" Xicdoias Senn Zoptj, Charles Iraper and Noraert A. My ips. Frank Cott--r, the wdtne.'-s, teti-fied teti-fied hp pot this Information from an ai-soci.tt- oi Zui-v;. The ledrai grand jury 6'jinc linie a 'o exonerated O'Connor of surh a charge. Joe Ko hier. according to Tetter, a fed-eraJ fed-eraJ ofneer. ave him dcadis of the al-lept-d ronai'iricy when he answered an advertieineru for men to go on a Mexican Mexi-can epediuon. Hoarder, Hordins to Colter's testimony. ta;d O'Connor had t:'en assurance it wouid be eay to take into Mexico arm and ammunft'on. so:n k far as to indifaT rvanauth would ae-onipany the txpoditlon to make the trip ovr tl:e border sue. The exp&d i-tiun i-tiun was to be ia the fc'uise oi a mining ven'ur. Zog could fi:rx:sh ten or fifteen ma-ch ma-ch '..; t"-J,'J'. otiier a rrus and a million ru-irds f-f arrniuni : ion. iTo'ter testified re m told I'irt of the arm, it w rI-1-k;1. w."e in the federal budint; as v.dt-nce in other arms smugging carp a. j. i:itors of surh a. orineclon be''A'een O Connor M.d the alleged con.-p;ratoi s Lra:i; pu oiit: torr.e time ayo whtr. O'Connor cor.ied ti.'re vas any truth in th-;n a:i1 The Jl-rai trrund yity. re.-ort-tr o:t the u (.J lhttl detention of M !-. exun'-rati d O'Connor. |