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Show GUILTY ON I SIXTH COUNT I Cotton King Patten Admits Ad-mits Charges of Restraint Re-straint of Trade j New York. Feb 10 James A. Pat- 31 ten, the cotton and grain speculator U H pleaded guilty in the federal court J II here today to six counts in an indie;- M meat charging him with restraint of H trade. H ludge Mayer fined Mr. Patten $4 M 000 which was paid immediately H Tbe remaining defendants in the M cotton corner case prpbablv will be II reindicted in the department of jus- II tice to cure what s regarded as a II flaw i u the pending indictment. II Patten s idea of guilty was by II agreement with the government. At- II torney General Wlckeraham consent- II ed to the arrangement because of the II supposed error in the indictment. II which, while charging a conspiracy II to bear up cotton, omitted the allena- II tion of withholding l from sale So- ill licitor General Bullitt admitted in the supreme court that the indictment was probabh faulty Three justices of the supreme court in a dissentinc (pinion, and the lower court justices j also bad declared the indictments faulty. 31 The sixth count charges that Patten Pat-ten and bis associates, Colonel Robert Rob-ert M Thompson. William P. Brown. F. B Hayne and Eugene Scales, agreed under a contract to buy prac tlcillv the entire raw cotton crop of 1909 in order to hold it out of the market until November 1, 1912. To tbe seven other coants In the Indictment Patten pleaded not guilt) . and they were nollied by the couC |