Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-06 | Page 13 | Two Acquitted of Fraud Charge

fWD TO A ACQUITTED OF f fRA HAR Jury Deadlocks on Four Others in Morse Case and Trial Is Ended NEW Dec 6 AP The AP-The The Morse mail mall fraud trial triai which started here on October 4 is s at nt an end with wIlh two of or the tile six defendants I acquitted I IThe The Jury was so deadlocked cd re regarding regarding re- re I I garding the others that It was discharged die dis charged da after deliberating ing thirty six hours All were charged with misusing the tho malls mails in selling steamship stocks George e A. A Burditt and amI Henry K li Broughton were wele ac acquitted tic tic- quitted but agreement could not be reached on Benjamin W. W Erwin A. A I and Harry P P. Morse sons of ot I Charles W V Morse shipbuilder I IThe The federal authorities have not indicated whether there will wilt be an another another an- an other trial The Tile men were indicted In 1922 along with twenty others All as officers aides associates or of oC the United States Steamship company or other Morse companies were charged with using th the mails to promote a fraudulent fraudulent fraud fraud- scheme for fOl sales of oC stock By the tile time the case came cane to trial however Indictments against all but seventeen of the tile defendants defendants defend defend- ants hud had been disposed of and during durIng dur dur- ing log the tile trial Indictments against ten others were dismissed Tile The Indictment still stands against tile the elder Morse 1 a resident resident resi resi- dent of Bath th thIe Me Ie lIe He was not brought t to trial because of ot certificates cates setting forth that he was an 1 invalid lid paralytic unable to speak coherently