Show I MUSKOGEE lAND LAN V CASES Attorneys for or Has as k to toto e II file Motions to Quash Indictments i Muskogee Olla Okla Aug Attorneys for GOl Governor Charles N Haskell and the five other defendants indict indicted I ed cd In connection with the alleged Mus ilus Muskogee kogee town lown lot lol frauds today todar mOil flied mo molIns lIns In Ul the federal court here to quash the indictments setting selling forth a number of oC sensational allegations Aside from Crom charges against five grand jurors and Ute the allegation of improper conduct on the part of United Slates Marshal Grant Victor the allegations deal largely with the grand jurys jUrs se selection e lection wIth especial objection to the exclusion of county the home of the defendants from the territory ter from which the jury was chos chosen en It Is alleged that thal George W Shawn Strawn J H 11 Dixon I C Burgess A AG G Dumas and W T Bailey Daile of time the grand jury which time defendants deliberately sought to so go soon goon on that jury with a vie tour I to returning indictments that Strawn a ns foreman conspired to intimidate the tho other jury ors lute Into voting Indictments after aCler they had refused to do so The motion in insists that Foreman St Strawn n wn repeatedly told the jurors that they would prou probably ably be charged with If tho thoI they failed to Indict and at one time when I the ballot stood eight to eight he called for COl an open vote ote so he would know who ho should be prosecuted It is alleged that out of eight tales men selected seven were partisan Republicans Re Republicans publicans and the eighth n personal 11 of Governor Haslell Haskell Is a After pointing out numerous in the manner and time of the grand JUI jury the motion de declares I clares there was no l to show a conspiracy to defraud and that the secretary of the InterIor amid nil all of Its departments In the Indian I Territory were fully full aware of how time the lots wore scheduled and that no ob objection I was raised Time The six defend defendants ants were Indicted b hy the federal grand brand jury Jur at Tulsa Okla on May lay 27 charged with obtaining titles from the to lo town lots In Muskogee ht by Illegal methods The five co of Governor Haskoll Haskell all wealth and prominent cit citIzens of Oklahoma are C V 1111 nor ncr A Z English T R Eaton W M 1 Hutchins and F B 13 Severs I Governor Haskell and six other lIe de defendants had previously been indicted on tho same samo charge but on April 10 last laRt Federal Judge Julge John A Marshall of Utah uphold upheld a motion of the defend defendants ants to lo quash the Time The Indictments were quashed on technical grounds I II I |