Show FOR FORTUNE TUNE MAKER INDICTED W j i iI I r I i i I 41 1 I I I I 1 i 1 I I I 4 I I 1 y e 5 5 5 55 5 4 S r e HT i-c PRICE PlaiCE LW cw YORK June luno 3 Two 3 Two int I meats against D t Th Theodore H H. Prie who has made and lost o t cra fortunes in iu cotton speculation and who as is not on friendly terms with th cotton exchange e. e wore returned l 11 v the federal grand I jury flu are arc uc based d on tho the II leakage of tho the fi 1 in the governments government's cotton cotton cot ton crop report three thrpo years n ago n One of the in indictments charges conspiracy eon con to defraud tho government Tho rho other charges bribery in connection with ith tho the con conspiracy piracy of Ed Edwin n S S. Holmes HolmeR Tr Jr who was assoC associate tc statistician in inthe inthe inthe the department of a agriculture at tho the time of tho the II leakage Two other indictments were handed down in connection with th the same matter mat mat- ter One of them thom is if a against Frederick A. A Peckham who was wa-s n a cotton brok broker r in inthis this city the other a against Moses Closes lla Haas I who wn was associated with P kharn and anti who also has his hs homo home hero herf A As AC they th- v. v w vre ore not placed under arrest United States District Attorney on de declined de- de dined to di disclose co the nature of tho charges s a against ain t them Together with Holmes mimes Peckham and Haas were Vero indicted for Conspiracy in Washington ton three years ago in iii connection connection tion with tho the revealing of th thc tin J figures in th the cotton otton reports While Whilo P Kham and Haas successfully sCull resisted extradition extradition tion and never were tri tried Homes Holmes went to trial and anel hi his jury disa disagreed in July last In this trial t testimony was given b bv by Louis Louit C. C Van Riper who was associated with the other three threet that by hy gettin getting getting get get- tin ting tho the advance information about tho the cotton reports had made mado more moro than Van Riper also testified ho he had been heen toM tOll that Holmes and hans Haas had furnished Mr lr Price with this valuable information |