Show JAIL LOOMS FOR COOPERS COOP Jury Returns Verdict In InFamous Famous Income Tax ax Frauds DUBUQUE la Ia June By I-By 1 By The Associated Press Press-A Press A A and W F Cooper wealthy Dubuque manufacturers and business men were found guilty on three counts count on a conspiracy which charged them with making false r and aDd fraudulent Dt income tax tai returns durin the th year 1918 1919 and 1920 by a federal court jury here Conviction of the 4 Coopers on tb the e conspiracy charge means mean that the government may proceed 1 with th the collection of ot about In In in- in Income com excess profits profit and war aar ar taxes and peDal penalties ties and fines tines It also means meaDS that the th Coopers are liable to Imprisonment The Th verdict was wa returned at al 1020 10 SO 30 o'clock last night The case hits has been In progress for a month Judge George George Georke S Scott presiding gave cave tho the defendants until Juno 20 to tile file til a motion for tor a 0 new trial The hearing on the motion was set for Juno June 28 21 at Waterloo Iowa IMPORTANT CASE The Th trial was regarded as one or of orthe the most Important Income tat taI cases ever prosecuted The Coopers Cooper brothers were of- of officers of officers of ot the A A Cooper Wagon Wason and Buggy Bugey Co of Dubuque and half haIr a dozen other companies doing I I business a In a dozen or more The Cooper wagons and sleds led w ere ero sold In every state stale In the and In many maDY foreign countries In each of ot the years ears ear In question the defendants submitted Income tax returns showing losses loste on op- op op oration of the concern aggregating ag more than COST There are twelve other Indict Indict- Indictments Indictments ments pending against the defend defend- defendants defendants ants and others associated with them In the th affairs ot Of several coat cor eOl- corporations all an ITO growing crow ins Ing out of o gos- gos W emment charges charees that the Coopers defrauded the tha government out or of Income taus and made mad fraudulent returns The 1 he Cooper case has ha been on trial since tine May 6 B It has bas cost the government In the neighborhood of because of or Immense sums spent in the th preliminary Ins lions of ot Cooper company affaIrs here and end in Texa Wiscon ln And other her states The cost of the pres press pressant present tIlt ant trial Is estimated at OOOO n no o |