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Eagle River Review
Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin
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In Chicago on Oct. 23, a court quashed the first and third indictments against Secretary Gibson of the whisky trust for conspiracy to burn the Shufeldt Distillery, but upheld the second and fourth counts alleging Gibson solicited government gauger De War to set the fire.
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Half the Indictments Against Gibson are Quashed.
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 23.—The case of Secretary Gibson, of the whisky trust, charged with conspiracy to burn the Shufeldt Distillery, came up to-day on a motion of attorneys of the defense to quash the various indictments. The motion to quash was sustained in the first and third counts, but overruled in the second and fourth. The counts which still stand against Gibson are long and set out with great particularity the solicitation by Gibson of De War, a government gauger, to set fire to Shufeldt's distillery. These charges Gibson must yet meet.
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Chicago, Ill.
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Oct. 23.
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motion to quash sustained in first and third counts; overruled in second and fourth counts, which remain against gibson.
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The case against Secretary Gibson of the whisky trust, charged with conspiracy to burn the Shufeldt Distillery, involved a defense motion to quash indictments. The motion succeeded for the first and third counts but failed for the second and fourth, which detail Gibson's solicitation of De War to set fire to the distillery.