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Show W. B. SLAUGHTER HAS BEEN CLEARED t Denver, April IS Only one count of the original 35 contained in the In dlctment against W. B. Slaughter, of Dallas, Tex , former president of the closed Mercantile National Bank of HI Pueblo, Col., remained against the tie- BW fendant when the trial was resumed M in federal district court today. "M Slaughter was charged in the origi- JH nal indictment with misappropriation JH and abstraction af assets of the bank ;tB and with orgery. fjB Joseph W. Bailey, former United Km States senator from Texas, chief coun- ! sel for tho former bank president, ex- J 3M pected to ask today that the case be 1 39 taken from the jury and the defend- ftfM ant discharged on the remaining .fl count. IJM |