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Show ENDS INQUIRY BfJESIGIG 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. Seattlo, Wash. I'nlted States District Dis-trict Judge Cornelius II. llanford, the first federal Judge appointed whn Washington was admitted to statehood, state-hood, twenty three years ago, sent hU " resignation Monday to President Taft ' ' v hile the last witnesses were wait-' wait-' lng to testify before the house Judl-t Judl-t clary committee which has been hearing hear-ing evidence relative to charges of ' . misconduct filed against Judr.o Ilan-. Ilan-. ' ford. The committee will leave at once ; for Washington, taking a voluminous t record of the twenty days' testimony and also the records or the law suits upon which most of the charges against Judge llanford were based. It Is the general understanding that no further action of any kind will be taken by the house. Judge Ilanfotd's chief counsel, K. 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 frlf-nds, ac-coiding ac-coiding to counsel, are satisfied with the showing made by him in the har-InK, har-InK, which, they say, did not sustain the charges. That the Judpe was anxious to resign re-sign was kept secret from all per-so.i per-so.i in Washington and from everybody every-body in Seattlo except his counsel. |
