The Archive · 1923

THE ARMS CASE IN THE U.S. COURT

District Attorney's List of Suspects: A Total of about Thirty People The names w read in the U.S. Court lastWriday afternoon of those alleged to be implicated in the arms smuggling deal, by My. Leonard! Husar, istrict Attorney. Those thought to have been in communication with Kearney at some time during the time from December, 1922, to date, are as follows: Messrs, Walduck. Gow, Baker, Stein, Horowitz, Besoir (Admiral in the Russian Fleet), Wilhemson, who accompanied Franklin to Korea, and Mrs. Stein.

Mrs. Elizabeth Stein was formally charged in the. Commissioner's Court for China last Friday afternoon on the sworn complaint of George Alber Mayer, that "on June 20, 19 and on several subsequent days, the said Elizabeth Stein, did_within the territorial limits of China, wilfully and unlawfully—import, keep and transport arms and ammunition in violation—of the treaties of Wang Hea, 1844, Art., 33, and Tientsin, 1858, Arv. 14, which Treaties are still in effect."

Mr. F. J. Schuhl, acting for Mrs. Stein, asked for either of two procedures—to have an itmmediate trial, or reduction of the bail to a sum that Mrs. Stein could obtain, the latter of which was granted and bail was fixed and procured at G.$1,000. Mr. Schuh] asked that defendant be

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