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Show LAND FRAUD CASE ' j IS HEARING A CLOSE PORTLAND, Or., Dec. . The climax In the land fraud trial, so far as the Government Gov-ernment Is concerned has been reached, and the law has but one more, witness to be placed on the stand and then the prosecution will close It case. Throughout the prosecution's .case the evidence has been more or less sensational, sensation-al, dragging as it has, the names of men high in the Councils of the Government into the public eye in an unenviable light, and leaving many apparently peculiar transactions to be explained away by the defenae.. A. W. Heldicke, an aged woodsman, broken by his guilt, confessed the story of his relations with the accused men and women, and told a story that could not be shaken under cross-examination, even at the skillful hands of Judge O'Day. chief counsel for the defense. From Heidlcke's testimony many things are expected ex-pected to soring.. The testimony of Heldicke told the story of the alleged conspiracy, virtually from the Inception up- to the time the grand Jury made its investigation and tonight to-night his story remains uncontroverted. The defense will begin to show its hand at tomorrow's session of the court. |