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Show JUDGE SCORES I NEWS WRITERS Threatens Grand Jury Action Ac-tion If Predictions on Witnesses Continue HOUSTON, Texas. Juno 7 Excusing: Excus-ing: the jury unexpectedly laic Tuesday Tues-day afternoon and holding everyone else Iti the court room. Federal Judge HUt( hi Of scathingly nrraigned newsl I paper reporters and threatened the,,, ,ulh grand Jnr action If they did not cease predicting who the witnesses wit-nesses were to be in the trial of S. 13. J Cox. iil promoter charged with uning the mulls to defmud SEft i ill RBSnuM m,. BOme locil jnpers have been pr-dictlm? pr-dictlm? that .Mrs Cox. known as the 'Little Partner." would go on the stand and prove a great aid for th. .lof..ne. This Rpociflc Instance was referred to l.y Judf?e Hutchcson This Is no mock trial." severMv remarkod the Judge. "I nhall take grbnd jury action against reporters continuing their practices of prodlet-Inp prodlet-Inp who is going to apbear as wlt- 1U'S3C." Complaint was alli-Red to have Keen made ugulnst ihe papers by the district attorney's office and Tuesday's Tues-day's episode is believed in he th.-i-.'.snlt. Th.' stale .t.-,l 1 ,--hp Into Tuesday and the defense took tho stahd M. T Wolurton, 7i. a .storekeeper at Shannon. Texas, who was a defense de-fense witness, Tuesday .-.ftemoon laid that W IV Johnson, former manager man-ager of tii.' General on company had told him: "I am xotng to devote mv entiro life in trying to ruin S. E. J. Cox." Johnson, a government witness stated that he had made no threats apalnst Cox. He also said that Cox had suggested to his numm. n.i the "Ponzi suoki-r UbC' tho M of persons who bought stlf k from the famous ttoslon financier be purchased. pur-chased. Another witness for the state W T .Miller, a COntfaetOIN said that a Pbi-t.-.m .i ili .i ., , , f,m.r, .,. Humble published In a pamphlet of the Cot Realisation company, appeared to b thi same a one tuken in his presence pres-ence when a refinery he built at Hum-hh Hum-hh wuv pm in ..juration for thi- pu--pose of taking the picture |