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Show (DISCHARGE 1 IS REFUSED Author of the Bankruptcy Law Renders First Decision De-cision as Judge. . (SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 7. United Btatee District Judge George W. Ray, 2be author, as a Congressman, of the ' national bankruptcy law, has handed down a' decision in the case of D. Y. Leslie of this tlty, declining to grant ,'tho petitioner a discharge in , bankruptcy. bank-ruptcy. The decision is the first made by ' Judge Rny Finre he went upon the bench. .He declares the intont of the law to protect creditors hr.s bteu evad- ed by the petitioner nnd says: "There is much in the evidence of this bankrupt displaying such gross Igno- j ante, real or pretcndel, of his business Affairs that the iourt is Justified in holding that his evidence is not entitled" to credit," |