| Show I COAL LAND CASES AS S SARE ARE DISMISSED Salt Lake Lale Nov 0 ollo was entered Wednesday afternoon In tho United States court by Judge P F PA FA A Maynard la nard the special attorney or of the lie In the prosecution or of ortho II the tho coal land cases In the indictment against Charles M 1 Freed G Filer Don C Robbins and Edwin W Senior The he indictment charged con can conspiracy a against the government anu was returned b ly the federal jury Jan ua liar rr IS 1007 In the charge charCo It was hold held b by th the government that hint the defendants hal hail entered Into a conspiracy on or about Sept I 1 1905 whose purpose It wa was to secure acres of coal conI lands in inEmer Emery Emer county count b by a process contrary tl to law nw According to the prosecutIon the tho dummy entry s system was tva em cm employed Robbins It was alleged acted as agent for Flier Filer who put up most of oC the mono money In the tho transactions to secure entry by persons who ha had no of settling on the tho lands tal tak talen taken en up by br thom them These dummies numbered won and according to tile the government were each paid sums ranging from to for their services Money Ioner was deposited In the bank to their credit for which they tool took n a cashiers check In each case for 1000 or 1 nn an acre nere for the acres which they ther entered upon Then the applied to the land and amid were given ghen receivers receipts let for forthe the money they paid In A total of was paid In to the tho office of the tho receiver and this mone money the govern government government ment now non has hasAs hasAs As soon ns as they got gol their receipts It 11 was set up the lie dummies them over Oer to Freed who was given ghen a first mortgage on the land Free now holds the receipts but the land has never been patented and Interest consequently Is restricted to toa toa a right In equity E F W Senior entered Into the tho case casc because lie ho acted as attorney for the theother theother other alleged ed conspirators and drew up tip the tho papers for them Item Mr Senior asserted that his connection with the tue matter was purely professional anti t that hat ho he lieu no knowledge of an any in intention cation on the part of Freed or 01 any anyone ono one else to defraud the government Mr Freed also asserted that h he bought the receipts in good faith |
