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Show ENDS INOUiRY BY1SIG1G JUDGE HANFORD SENDS RESIGNATION RESIG-NATION TO PRESIDENT WHILE UNDER INVESTIGATION. Accused Justice's Counsel Declares That the Judge has Desired to Resign for Several Weeks No Further Action Will be Taken. Seattle, Wash. United States Dis. trict Judge Cornelius H. Hanford, the first federal judge appointed when Washington was admitted to statehood, state-hood, twenty-three years ago, sent his resignation Monday to President Taft while the last witnesses were waiting wait-ing to testify before the house judiciary judi-ciary committee which has been hearing hear-ing evidence relative to .charges of misconduct filed against Judge Hanford. Han-ford. The committee will leave at once lor Washington,' taking a voluminous Record of the twenty-days' testimony and also the' records of the law suits upon which most of the charges against Judge Hanford were based. It is the general understanding that no further action of any kind will be taken by the house. Judge Hanford's chief counsel, B. C. Hughes, said after the resignation, that the judge has desired to resign several weeks ago, 'but could not well do so with no evidence heard in the case. The judge and his friends, according ac-cording to counsel, are satisfied with the showing made by him in the hearing, hear-ing, which, they say, did not sustain the charges. That the judge was anxious to re-. sign "was kept secret from all persons per-sons in Washington and from everybody every-body in Seattle except his counsel. |