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Show BIO NEWJNQICTrvlENT Action Taken to Overcome Objections Raised by New Haven Railroad Defendants to Former Bill Now York, Feb. 27. Tho federal grand Jury today returned a superseding supersed-ing Indictment against twenty-ouo dl rectors, former directors and counsel of tho Now York, Now Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, charging violation ot tho Sherman antitrust law, Tho Indictment, similar to tho ono returned Ias Novcmbor, was brought to overconio objottlons mndo by cortnln defendants to tho manner In which tho first Indictment was secured. In tho objections to tho first Indictment In-dictment It was asserted that tho clerk of tho district court, and not his deputies, should havo drawn tho namo of tho Jurors. Whllo theso objections wero overruled on demurrer demur-rer by Judgo Humphroy, It was do elded to havo n, now Indictment returned re-turned so as not to give nn appear-anco appear-anco of unfairness on tho part o f tho government against tho dofnnd-ants dofnnd-ants nnd nlso to avoid nn appeal from Judgo Humphrey's ruling. |