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Show NUWO CHE iy ratios Trial of Pan Motor Fraud Charges Draws Near End in Chicago. CHICAGO. I'ec. .".-la. cr-e of . C. Pan-lolf o, promote r anl re-si-ii-nt of the Pan Motor company of St. Chu-1. Minn., ami twelve ot her off iiaN vi the company cbari: with con;ir:ipy to u-e the liiails to defn.u'l w.-n ivLu to the jury yt l'.trj. o'clo- 'v loniht. The jury Tv x'itk d jsftcr I'ed:r:;! Jnr Laii'ii? h:.i stM.-nt uu -iy a::-! r.Al iu rcH'I'.n l:is int ruc'ion ;.t a ni-jt session ti" (.oiirt ucM to u:.s'ore or tin: tlo-iii ari'!:JU'iits. A t midnight J u J-e 1 n. :s 1 n e!. Ie;iviiiw ins true ti'Jii.i th::' . liouid t he 'jury reach a verdict, it be sv:ihi and rea'i in C'Urt :. t 10 m. :tnorr.-vr. Jud-i Laudis instructed tiie jury to vote not jruil'y en tli. t i r - t live (.. n:s yint iiU the d-tVndants and similarly sim-ilarly on the iirt live counts i:aint etht of 'lie St. Cloud directors. iitiries V. Sjhwah. Peter Thielmcn. U. K. H:m-eomb. H:m-eomb. bnnkers; Hujh Kvans. roer; II. C. Ervin, Jr.. pos:m;i'er ; Fred S'.diilpin, Char . P.unneli. a renl estate es-tate dealer, and Charles V. L.-.dner. vite president of the company. There were eleven counts in all. ten 01 tljin alleging al-leging misuse of the mails and the eleventh elev-enth conspiracy to defraud by use of the mails. The six t li and seventh counts wre dismissed soon after the trial began. The judge's instructions left all but the sixth ard ninth counts stiindin against Paudolfo. Secretary John Bar-riit. Bar-riit. Xorman A. Street and t'ieo !'! Heidnian, Chieago. patent atturney?. and H. S. Wicle of Spokane, a director and futmr viee presiden; of the company; com-pany; the eight!., ninth, tenth and eleventh against seven of the eiyht St. Cloud directors and only the eighth and eleventh against La an or. Attorney George Teak for the defense, de-fense, waived the closing argument 011 behalf of all the defendant. Judge Landis refund motions bT defense de-fense lawyers to instruct the jury to find defendants not guilty. The general charge against the Thirteen Thir-teen dr'femian : s U that of usi(g the mails to obtain money by false pretenses pre-tenses and that of entering a cuiispir-acv cuiispir-acv to do this. The punishment is a maximum of five years imprison men t for the conspiracy and to years for even- count on the indictment proved againt the defendant. The judge may. however, make the sentence as light as he pleases. Then? are n ine counts iu indictment against the Pan motor officials. |