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PECULIAR CASE AT SPOKAtlA IS BEING WATCHED Is Unprecedented in the Annals of Legal Jurisprudence In the History of the United States. V A CHIEF JUSTICE IS ONE OF THOSE INVOLVED One Charge Against Him Is Issuing Worthless Check for $28,000 to Pay County Railroad Taxes. Spokane, Wash., May 15. Unprecedented in the annals of legal jurisprudence in the United States is the chain of incidents following the resig nation of Milo A. Root, as Judge of the supreme court of Washington, and leading to the Indictment by the grand jury of Spokane county of Merritt J. Gordon, formerly chief justice of this state and until recently counsel for the Great Northern Railway . company. There are six indictments against Gordon. ' One charges him with issuing a worthless check, drawn for S2S.507.43, in payment of the company's t es in Stevens county, Washington, and five "true bills" allege the embezzlement of moneys to the amount of 39,626.40 from the company in 1908, while its attorney. Gordon pleaded "not guilty" when arraigned before Judge Hinkls. and is at liberty under bonds of 30,000 pending the trials in June. Odd Ramifications. w The Gordon case has peculiar ramifications, extending from Olympia, the state capital, on the west, to St. Paul, the head office of the railway company, on the east. Gordon left the company's employ last fall, going to Ta coma, and afterwards there were rumors he had . embezzled $80,000 of his employers funds. Judge Root's name was linked with these rumors, which became so persistent that the chief justice brought the matter to the attenion of his colleagues and the state bar as sociation. , It was openly stated that Rnrdnn had written an onlnlon in. H proved by ; the chief solicitor of the Great Northern Railway - company, which was handed down by Root as a decision in an important case. The ruling had vital bearing on personal damage suits against railroad and other corporations. Judge Root resigned under fire, pleading "indiscretion of friendship." tat deayio b4 received penny

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