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Show JUDGE UPHOLDS BRIBERY CHARGE FEDERAL JUDGE STER OVER-RULES OVER-RULES DEMURRER IN CHARGE AGAINST MEANS Men Must Now Stand Trial on Charge That They Obtained Money For Purpose of Alleged Bribery New York-Federal Judge Foster has upheld the indictment of Gaston B. Means, former department of justice jus-tice agent; his secretary, Elmer Jar-recke, Jar-recke, and his attorney, Thomas L. Fekler, on charges that they received money which they misrepresented was to be used in the bribery of former Attorney General Daugherty and other government officials. The indictment was upheld when the court overruled a demurrer recently re-cently filed by Felder in which he contended that the three defendants were not charged with the violations and that the charges were vague and indefinite. Means, Jarnecke, and Felder were indicted by a federal grand jury last March on charges that they had received re-ceived $65,800 from officials of the Creager System and the Glass Casket company of Altoona, Pa., for purposes pur-poses of alleged bribery. They are accused of having represented rep-resented to these officials who had just been convicted of using the mails to defraud in the sale of the stock of the Glass Casket company, that the money was to be paid to the then Attorney General Daugherty Hay-ward Hay-ward and other government officials. In return for this money they are alleged to have told the convicted men, the government officials would cause them to be leniently dealt with. |