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Show ARISTOCRATIC TOUCH TO MINOTTO TRIAL CHICAGO, Nov. 7. An aristocratic touch appeared today in the closing hour of tho government's case against Count James Minotto. It came in the form of letters of thanks to the count from the celebrated London beauty, Lady Diana "Manners. Testimony showed that Lady M anil an-il ors sought information as to the whereabouts of one Major Johnson, an English officer reported "capturod or missing." Through his high placed acquaintance ac-quaintance among Germans he located locat-ed the officer as a prisoner in a German Ger-man prison camp and cabled the facts to Lady Diana. The 1 otters were Introduced by tho defense to account for certain cable- grama sent by tho count to England. Tho letters referred to the cablegrams as having concerned the fate of Major Johnson. Immigration Inspector Puhl, who conducted the hearings, said there was so much evidence that it would bo per-' per-' haps a weok before ho could report 1 findings to the stato department Coun-1 Coun-1 sol for Count Minotto were allowed until un-til Monday to prepare briefs. |