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Show I ANGRY DOUGHBOYS SEIZE ARMORED TRAIN FRAUD CORRUPT! I 18 CONSPIRACY SRE . ALLEGEDiW CHARGE United States Senator and 123 Others Prominent in Politics Placed on Trial Jt IMPOSING ARRAY OF LEGAL TALENT THERE Case Arises From Grand Jury Probe to Defeat Henry Ford In Michigan GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 27 United States Senator Truman H. Newberry and 123 men prominent in Michigan politics went on trial in fed-era! fed-era! district court here today charged with conspiracy, fraud and corruption in the 191S senatorial election. The importance of the issue involved, the prominence of most of the defendants IH and the Imposing array of legal talent presaged one of the most notable BH cases in the legal annals of the state. Of the 135 men Indicted by. the fed BH eral grand jury last November, nine have entered pleas of nolle contendre, BH the case of one has been continued, owing to illness and another, upon whom service has not been obtained, was said to be in South ' American, BH Twenty-three pleaded "not guilty" and 101 stood mute when arraigned. History of Case United States Senator Truman H. Newberry and 134 other men were charged with corruption, fraud and conspiracy by the federal grand jury which Investigated the senatorial elec-tion. elec-tion. of 1918; "When the Indictments were returned November 30, last, United States District Judge C. W. Sessions, who assembled the jury, in dicatcd that evidence obtained by tho inquisitors - disclosed that between $500,000 and $1,000,000 had been ex-pended ex-pended fraudulently in connection with the election. The indicted men included every member of the committee that con-ducted con-ducted the Newberry campaign and state, county and municipal officials in virtually every county from Lake Superior to the Ohio border. The conclusions of the grand jury were embodied in two blanket indict ments. They charged violation ol both federal and stale laws by use of sums of money far in excess of leg-jitimale leg-jitimale expenses in the campaign; and violation of the federal corrupt prac tices act, which penalizes payment of money to voters. Use of the mails "to defraud all the people of Michigan," was further charged against the cam-paign cam-paign committee. More than $100,000 ofthe contributed fund, it charged was converted to personal use of some of I the campaign managers. To Defeat Ford James W. Helme, former state dairy and food commissioner, who opposed Henry Ford for the Democratic nomin-ation nomin-ation in the senatorial primary, an-other an-other clause of the indictment alleged, was compensated by the Newberry or-ganizatlon or-ganizatlon for making the primary race. The alleged purpose was to pre- jjH vent Democratic voters from "lining 11 up" with Ford in the Republican IH primary. Attached to tho indictments was t list of more than two score "overt Bfl acts." These contained cnarges that. a number of those indicted had given rewards ranging from promises of a "good job" to payments of sums rang-ing rang-ing from $5 to $2,750 in return for sup-port sup-port in the Newberry campaign. One 'country editor wfs alleged to have re-ceived re-ceived a ton of print paper. The grand jury investigation was conducted by Frank C. Dailey, of in-dlnnapolls, in-dlnnapolls, former United States attor-ney attor-ney for Indiana. It was ordered by the department of justice, October IS, 'H and was based, it was announced, on complaints filed with the department . tH "and also published charges of fraud jBfl and corruption" made by Lieutenant Governor Dickinson of Michigan, and others. Bfl Defendants Mute Senator Newberry and thirteen of Bfl the men who directed the campaign work in 191S, appeared before Judge iH Sessions December S and on the ad- tH vice of counsel stood mute. This was done, it was explained, that the valid- 'H ily of the indictments might be chal-longed chal-longed later, should it he decided to attack them. The right lo raise tech-nical tech-nical questions, it was stated, would have been sacrificed by pleas of not fBfl gutily. Senator Newberry and each of tho thirteen men who nppeared with -M him were held in bonds of $10,000 and fM $5,000 on the first and second indict-ments, indict-ments, respectively. The maximum penalty for the of jBl fonses charged is a fine of $10,000 and two years imprisonment, (H |