Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — Defendants Escape Prosecution. [ARTICLE]

Defendants Escape Prosecution.

Denver. Colo., Dec. 31.—Judge R. E. Lewis, of the federal court, quashed all Indictments and sustained all the demurrers In coal land fraud cases thereby releasing about fifty prominent defendants from prosecution. Among the defendants who escape prosecution nre S. W. Keitel and four teen others of St. Louis, comprising the Yampa Coal company; Charles E Hurr, of Durango; Robert WorTester. Salt Lake City; Benjamin F. Freeman, of Durango; George Coe Franklin, of Durango.