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Show GOVERNMENT TO KEEP HANDS Off Special Assistant Attorney-General Attorney-General Says There Will Be No Meddling in Moyer-Haywood-Pettibone Trial DENVER, April 19. Judge M. C. Burch. special assistant United States Attorney-General, who has Just returned from Boise. Ida., in an interview with a representative of the Associated Press today denied that there is any connection connec-tion between land frauds investigation in Idaho and the prosecution of the Western Federation of Miners on the charge of complicity In the assassination of former Gov. Steunenberg of Idaho. "Sensational reports going the rounds of Western newspapers concerning the Idaho conditions should be very largely large-ly discounted." said Judge Burch. "The timber lands investigations have been going on in northern Idaho, and I was instrumental in sending both a special attorney and a special examiner of the Department of Justice there at the start. It required some time to pry off the ltd, ' which ordinarily covers such transaction and such was the case there, but nearly a year ago some of the guilty parties were indicted and convicted. In southern Idaho the alleged frauds were j much more recent and the officers of the Department of Justice and the Interior have neither urged forward nor retarded their operations by reason of the pending pend-ing offenses against the three officials of the miners' federation in that State, and statements to such effect are without foundation. "The visit of District Attorney Rulck to Washington is a mere ordinary occurrence, occur-rence, it being the custom to call District Attorneys there for report and consultation consulta-tion with department officials concerning affairs In their districts, especially when any litigation is on calculated to call for unusual assistance or an outlay of more than ordinary funds. The Attorney-General Attorney-General is always In control of any case, either civil or criminal, and would not think of overruling the action of a grand Jury review of its action between indictment indict-ment anil the trial of -the parties indicted, in-dicted, nor to forestall a proper Inquiry Into the probable sullt or innocence of parties accused and not yet indicted. "It has been, to my knowledge, and I have every reason to believe it will be the policy of tha Department of Justice in Idaho, to hew straight to the line and to keep its administration there absolute-' ly free from entanglement either with the prosecution or defense of Moyer, Haywood Hay-wood and Pettibone." |