Show bABES FORBES F APPEAl AllEGES ALLEGE ERRORS FORMER BUREAU DIRECTOR AND CONTRACTOR WILL TRY FOR FORA A NEW HEARING HEARING Ninety Five Errors In the First Proceedings Proceedings Pro Pro- Are Enumerated In Appeal Just Filed Flied in Federal Court at Chicago Chicago Chicago Appeals Appeals in behalf of or Charles R R. Forbes former director ol or orthe the veterans' veterans bureau and J. J W. W Thompson wealthy St. St Louis contractor tor tOl convicted convict eel last February of conspiracy conspiracy conspiracy con con- to the government through hospital contracts have been filed In the federal court of appeals The plea cont contains ins ten thousand printed pages and mul is the longest In Inthe Inthe the lie history of the court here Ninety five errors in the proceedings proceedings proceed proceed- ings and findings of the original trial court are enumerated Grave substantial and prejudicial errors in the lie trial are held b by the lie defendants defendants defendants de de- de- de to have havo brought about the conviction Forbes and Thompson are free on bonds pending decision on the lie ap ap- ap- ap peal They were sentenced to two years ears in in the tIie penitentiary Uary and amI fined The appeal probably will be bo heard in October Neither Forbes nor Thompson was required to appear in court I The defense petition ale cs that Important evidence bearing upon Forbes' Forbes general conduct on the veterans veterans' veterans veterans' vet vet- erans' erans bureau and his relations with ether contractors had been excluded by the tho trial judge while prejudicial evidence of inadequate foundation had lead been admitted on the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's side The petition charges the Ule trial court erred and prejudiced the defense case in permitting the government government government govern govern- ment to introduce the name of r Mrs Carolyne Votaw sister of President Harding and later denying defense attorneys the pi of commenting or introducing rebuttal testimony regarding regarding regarding re re- re- re garding conversation between Mrs Votaw and Forbes relative to Mortimers Mortimer's Mortimer's Mortimers Mortimers Mortimer's Mor Mor- timers timer's character Two improper prejudicial remarks in the presence of ot the jury were attributed attributed attributed at at- to Federal Judge George A. A Carpenter who tried the case The indictments on which the lie convictions were secured were returned by a special federal grand jury in June 1921 I after an intensive stud study of or evIdence evidence evi evI- dence deuce presented In the senate committees committee's committees committee's committees committee's com com- investigation o of the veterans veterans' bureau in the lie summer of 1923 I |