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Show oo Three Claim $5000 in Army Graft Cass (By International News Service.) Detroit, Mich. Ownership of tho $5,000 fund which figured so prominently promi-nently in tho so-called ?30,000,000 army salvage graft trial in tho federal court resulted in the conviction of three of the defendants and the acquittal ac-quittal of three others, will be decided by the United States supreme court. The money, It is alleged, was turned over to Grant Hugh Browne by Burt Harris und .Monroe Bardach as part of a bribe of J 10,000. Browne turned the money over to Captain Solcrlos Nicholson. Tho latter was arrested In the Statlor hotel as he was dividing the fund with Lieutenant B. T. Reamy, who exposed the plot. Then it was turned over to District Attorney John E. Klnnano, who held It as ovldence. Recently Thomas Fcldcr, attorney for Browne, claimed the money on an assignment for attorney fees. . George Monaghan, for Bardach, filed a clalmfor his client's share. Lucking, Murphy & Hclfman havo entered a claim on behalf of Harris. Mr. Klnnan has refused to turn the $5,000 over to any one, saying that It belongs to tho government by confiscation. confis-cation. Meanwhile Levi Cooke, representing Nicholson, in whose possession the money was before his arrest, Is yet to be heard from. J nn. I |