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Show MAY NULLIFY STANDARD FINE Morltz Rosenthal, chief associate counsel for JYV the Standard Oil company, made a sensation iWWJm when he announced he had a scheme to nullify MWir vwaWW Judge Landls' J29.2I0.000 fine imposed upon tho WmMt oil trust. Attorney Rosenthal's scheme is based MAmi -, fcxw! on tho Immunity bath to bo granted to the Alton fer VVWM railroad for Its part in testifying ngnlnst tho AUUWM wMvy Standard Oil company. Ilo says the Standard WWra sL lwWvVv should have been Informed of tho proposed lm- "TP"1- 4iwvTOMVV miiulty bath so its attorneys could liave ques- r loned the Alton witnesses properly: Attorney WWwSJl Rosenthal contends they should have been al- WmtFfy' x! lowed to ask these railroad witnesses whether y 'jtQy' 1 their testimony had been InlUieuced In uny way iKtS' i by knowledge that the rond which employed them .Wy V would not suffer prosecution. ' rt" fl- Attorney Rosenthal, who raises this question. Is a native of Dixon, 111. lie was born May I, 180(1, nnd Is thoroforo but 41 yenrs old. He graduated from tho University of Michigan in 1888, studied law In Chicago and was admitted to tho bar in 1890. Ho was assistant states attorney for Cook county In 18911: assistant United States attorney northern district attorney of Illinois from ISO t to 1898. It will bo noted that his rise was rapid and that nlthough n young man ho Us attained n most enviable position In the legal profession. Politically ho is n democrat. |