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Show HARAH4N IS CALLED r Will Be Chief Witness j in Investigation of "Graft" Case Chicago, Aug. 22. When the trial of the three officials of the Illinois Central Cen-tral railroad on the charges of "grafting" "graft-ing" lu the car repair, department opens today. President J. Harahan will be one of the chief witnesses called into .court by the men whom he is prosecuting. As the first movement in the plan to switch the investigation in such manner as to include numerous skeletons skele-tons in the closets, lawyers for Frank B. Harrlman. Charles L. Ewlng and John M. Taylor, the officials so for accused, yesterday subpoenaed Presl- I dent Harahan. Maurice Welch, special agent for the road, and President James Miles of the Blue Island Car Repair &. Equipment company, as among their witnesses The counter charges that the railroad rail-road financed "Big Dan" Ccmghlln ( and William Armstrong, fugitive lu- j dieted for jury tampering and money, the former officials ore accused of appropriating, ap-propriating, was used Hle?nlly for this purpose by the company will be the line of defense of Harrlman. Taylor and Ewlng, according to counsel ' for the defendants. |