Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1906 — FILES AN IMMUNITY PLEA [ARTICLE]

FILES AN IMMUNITY PLEA

Bailway Men tn a Rebate Case Take Advantage of Judge Humphrey’s Packers’ Case Decision, Kansas City, April 6.—Judge E. L. Scarritt, representing the Chicago and Alton and other parties to the railroad rebate cases which will be argued in the federal court here next Monday, has filed a plea which has for its basis the decision of Judge Humphrey in Chicago in the suite against the beef packers, wherein it was decided that the members of the corporations who had furnished Information qn which indictments were returned were imm’une from prosecution, but that the corporations themselves were not. “The same materia 1 points were covered by Judge Humph:ey’s decision and the earlier decision of the United States supreme court in the so-called tobacco trust case,” said Judge Scarritt, in discussing the plea.