GUILTY OF PERJURY.
PROHIBITION LEADER.
(ar CABEE—MESS ASSOCIATION COPTiUGBTT.) (AU3THAUAU AND K.Z. P. A TIT .71 ASSOCIATION.)
NEW YORK, January 29.
After a long-fought and bitterly-con-tested legal action, in which a famous counsel defended him and prominent clergy testified concerning his integrity, W. H. Anderson (Now York State Superintendent of the AnG-Saloon League, charged July last with lion of league funus), was found guilty of perjury in the third degree, the jury deliberating for three hours. The pun-, ishment for this offence is a maximum of five years' imprisonment. Tho indictments of grand larceny are still outstanding, but it is considered certain that the case will be carried to the Appeal Oourt.
Counsel summoned hundreds of witnesses, including clergymen who had helped support Anderson. Anderson's chief cry was that the enemies of Prohibition had planned and successfully
routed his downfall. ~n elderly cicsgvman, whom the prosecution cross-examined, declared, with tears in his eyes, after strong and incontrovertible evidenco against accused had been adduced, that they would deliver up their hearts and souls for him.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 17986, 1 February 1924, Page 13
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