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Show MATS IN LETTERS SENT TO JUDGE l o ANOELES. Cal.. Aug. 10. Judge Walter Bo rd welt, before whom the Mo-Namara Mo-Namara brothers will appear Ootober 11 (or trial on charges of conspiracy and murder, said that ha had received threatening threat-ening letters In oonnection with the ease. Ha declined to give out the contents of the letters, but told Attorney Lecompts Davis, ot counsel for the McNamara brothers, that he was In a' position to put sto te them. Davis appears before Judge Bo rd well aa attorney for court stenographers lo crltk'lae the actlona of the grand Jury-He Jury-He aald his clynis had received letters from the amr ry of the finance committee com-mittee of (he grand Jury, which warned them to refund alleged overcharges for their work or the matter would be referred re-ferred back to the grand Jury for Indictment. Indict-ment. Judge ffordwell aatd the grand Jurors might have not been Judicious, but thU he believed they were conscientious. He then mentioned the threatening letter. pavlg eald that If the letter just received re-ceived was Ilka another threatening letter let-ter the Judge had shown him previously he could not condemn It too severely. He declared he would be only too glad to take any step suggested by the court for tho prosecution of the writer. |