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Show PATTEN PLEADS ! GUILTY IN COTTON CASE Fined $4000 for Conspiring to Corner the Cotton Market PLEA BY AGREEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT Indictment Probably De- fective, Other Defend, ants to Be Reindicted. new york, rh. tL-nim a. Fatten, tha cotton and grain lanalaSn. pleaded guilty In tha federal court bar today to tha sixth count tn an indict mailt charging him with restraint of trad in connection with th notion hall campaign of tare years ago. Judge Mayer flood Mr. Patten SaOOO, which waa paid Immediately. The sixth count charges, that Patten and hit associate, OoL Uobart M. Thouipaou, William P. Bruvsa. F. B. Hayue and Kugene Hcalaa, agreed, us-der us-der a contract, to buy praetically the entire raw cotton crop of lWM) in order to hold it out of th market until November No-vember 1, lulu. To tho aavaa other count in th Indictment In-dictment Patten pleaded not guilty aad they war soiled by th court. Pat i c ii ' plea of guilty was by agree-I agree-I meat with th government. Attorney General Wickerseam consented to th arrangement because of tha supposed error in th iadic.tmat which, while charging a eouspiracv to buy op cotton, cot-ton, omitted th allegation of withholding with-holding it from sola. Solicitor General Bullitt admitted la tha supreme court that tha Indictment waa probably faulty. Three justice of th supreme court in a djsseatiag opia-ioa opia-ioa and the lower court justice also had declared the indictment faulty. Tha ri.niMiriiii, l.-f,..iidsnta in tha an toa corner case probably win ho reindicted re-indicted in the department of justice to core what is regarded a a flaw la the pending indictment. &BMA1NTMO OBFaUnkAMTS) ASBBBT THEIR INNOCENCE M.vv ORIGANS. Feb. II. The three ether members of the cotton "bull Kl." indicted joiatly with James A toa in conaection with the "bull" campaign ia the 1910-1(11 eottoa crop, will not plead guilty to the federal indictment in-dictment ia New ork, according ho a tatemeot given to the Associated Pre today by William P. Brown. "I lav ne. 8rale and myself will not plead irui It v." said Mr. Brown, "for the reason that we would perjure ourselves our-selves if we did ao, as wa are not guilty of a single on of th charge that have been made against lis." "I expected it," said Brown, when informed that Mr. Patten had pleaded guilty. Frank B. Ilavn said: "We were aware that Mr. Patten intended in-tended to plead guilty. 1 would cos ider that I had (tultified myself if I r leaded guilty to a charge that I knew waa not guilty of." Hoth Mr Brown and Mr. Haya are residents of New Orleans. Eugene O. Scale, the fourth member of the pool under indictment, lire at Waco, Tex. |