Alleged Extortion, Case Dismissed:
A Claim on a Deal in Matchwood At the U.S. Commissioner's Court on Thursday afternoon, before Mr.
E. Lurton, in the cases of the U.S.
Maloney and the U.S. v. Keys, charged with extortion, the District Attorney, Mr. L. G. Husar, moved the dismissal of the cases on insufficient evidence and that the bondsman be exonerated. he motion was granted.
The case which occupied the greater part of the afternoon was a suit for breach of contract, P. R. Moore v. the Far Eastern Trading Company, for losses sustained by plaintiff because of defendant's failure to take delivery of aspen logs for matchwood as ordered. The plaintiff was represented by Mr. J. W. Schoenfeld and the defendant by Mr, R. 8 Haskell.
The plaintiff claimed that he had been ordered to purchase for the defendant 10,000 cubic feet of new aspen logs to be used for making matchwood under conditions set forth by contract, letters and oral agreements. That failure of plain-tift to deliver logs at the time set forth in the original contract was caused by defendant's failure to make preliminary payment as also set forth in contract amd furthermore that defendant by oral agreement: Was willing to take the legs oven though they arrived later than specified in contract; and that by withholding payment defendant forced plaintiff to relinquish claim en logs which defendant then ¢blained in open market.
The defendant: claimed that although he was not obligated to accept the logs on account of their late delivery, he was willing to accommodate plaintiff by arranging a sale provided his customer agreed on the measurements of lumber, and that this condition was understood. It not being possible to agree on measurements, this w-vougement was impossible. It was also claimed on behalf of defendant that plaintiff was not the actual purchaser of the lumber but only acting as local agent. Another point of disagreement was with regard to the date on which 20 pee cent. of the purchase money was made available to plaintiff by de fendant, the two parties producing apparently conflicting documents 10 evidence. In order to give both parties time to produce conclusive evidence on this point the Comreissioner adjourned the case till vor.orrow morning.
Tures Japanese, two men and a woman, and a Korean, appeared at the Japanese Consular Court on Wednesday charged with trafficking in arms. They were held up in Kungping Road when carrying over 2,000 rounds of Mauser pistol ammunition. One of the men who offered the police constable a $2 bribe was sent to prison for 25 days. The others were sentenced to 15 days.
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