Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1908 — JUDGE LASHES RICH MAN [ARTICLE]

JUDGE LASHES RICH MAN

Faulkner Court Maaton of New York in Trouble at Chicago. Chicago. Dec. 25.—Faulkner Court Maston, president of the Victor Color and Varnish company of New York city, wealthy and an associate of some of the most prominent business men of the east, was held to the grand jury under $5,000 bonds by Municipal Judge William Gemmill on a serious charge brought by Miss Ruth R. I.ee, n trained nurse In expressing his views of the case after two hours of testimony. Judge Gemmill gave the New Yorker one of the severest arraignments ever heard in a Chicago courtroom. Detectives, police officers, and court attaches stood astounded. Maston «iood with an immobile, ghastly face as Judge Gemmill pronounced him ”a moral degenerate of the worst type" and a "human brute.” “Why talk about- white slave cases, the practices of this man are ten times worse.” declared the judge. Maston denies the charges made by the nurse. (