Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — MAY REINDICT HASKELL [ARTICLE]

MAY REINDICT HASKELL

New Jury to Hear Evidence In Oklahoma Land Fraud Cases. Tulsa, Okla., April 30.—A new federal grand jury will be formed to reinvestigate the Muskogee town lot fraud cases In which the- names of Governor Charles N. Haskell and other prominent Oklahomans were Involved. • When the Indictment against Haskell was quashed it was because It had been returned by a jury composed of twenty-three toen under the federal law, Jn stead of by a jury of sixteen, as provided by the law at the time of the Irregularities. The new jury will consist of sixteen men.