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Show VAN DRIVERS CALLED IN CONSPIRACY CASE Salt Lake, March 21. Several van drners were caleld upon to take tho witness stand yesterday in the trial of the case of the United States against Hyman Lewis and others, charged with conspiracy to conceal bankrupt assets and testified that they had hauled boxes containing shoes from the shoe companv's place of business to the Oregon Short Line railroad station for Bhipment to Idaho and Wyoming points. W. G. Marden, a clerk in the railroad company's freight oftice, also testified that he had ieceived these shipments. One van driver told how ho had hauled one load back from the station to the Freed warehouse, where it was seized by government officers. The witnesses who testified in the morning morn-ing cession were W. N. Keller, W. G. Marden, Henry C. Giers, Walter Robinson, Rob-inson, Ed. Wright, Carl Adams, H. F. Litten and Eugene Stiefel. In the afternoon William B. White, shoe salesman for Robinson Brothers, took the stand and testified that he had appraised the stock of the Lewis Shoe company during the month of March, 1915 He said that his valuation valua-tion was 9722, |