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Show IHDRSE IS FREED OF UNCHARGES GOVERNMENT LOSES FIRST WAR FRAUD CASE AFTER LONG JURY SESSION Charles W. Morse and His Three Sons Were Charged With Conspiracy Defraud on Wartime- Shipbuilding Ship-building Operations Washington. The government lost Saturday the first of the big war fraud commercial cases, a Jury in the District of Columbia supreme court returning a verdict of acquittal in the case of Charles V. Morse, New York shipbuilder, his three sons and four others, who were charged with conspiracy con-spiracy to defraud the United States on wartime shipbuilding and operating oper-ating contracts. The jurors, who had spent fifteen weeks In hearing the evidence and arguments, deliberated approximately fourteen hours. As the Jury reported Its findings on each of the four counts in two indictments, tears coursed down the cheeks of Charles W. Morse. The other defendants showed few signs of emotion. .Besides the elder Morse, those acquitted ac-quitted were Erwin A. Morse, Benla- min V. Morse Harry F. Morse, N. H. Campbell of New York. R. W. Mush of Auirusta. Me., and n. f. White of New York, all officials of some of the several Morse companies, nnd Philip Keinhardt. who was an auditor for the emergency fleet corporation at the Virginia shipbuilding plant at Alexandria. Va. Ills chief counsel. Nash Rook wood of New York, stated that, upon the convening of congress. Mr. Morse would seek an Investigation by the house and senate Judiciary comm't. tees f.f the prosecution brought against him hy the government. |