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...took over the enterprise after Hartzell's imprisonment, were chief defendants of the 41. Yant had been picked up by a detective from Chicago's confidence game detail who posed as an impatient "investor," got a thorough picture of the whole headquarters operations. When police and postal inspectors finally pounced last April, they impounded $60,000 in cash, $40,000 which was being transmitted to Chicago by express from suckers who had been warned against using the mails to send in their money...
...with two alternates, was chosen, largely because none of them had ever heard of the master of the Golden Hind. One venireman was passed over because he lived in Chicago's Drake Hotel. Defense Counsel Edward J. Hess, once an assistant U. S. attorney and an authority on postal law, set out to save those of his twoscore clients whom he could. It was soon clear that he did not hope to save them all. Passing up Hartzell and Yant, he pointed at some of the others, pleaded: "Whatever may be the truth about the Drake Estate, these people...
...faith of Drake Estate "heirs" knows no bounds. The Chicago mass trial had not got well under way before the Chamber of Commerce of Madison informed Postal Inspector Robert E. Lewis in Chicago that the racket was still going great guns in Wisconsin, was apparently unquenchable...
...joint opinion, with the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Lawyer Pepper held the Public Utility Act unconstitutional, informing UGI directors: "Because we are convinced that this title cannot be sustained under the commerce power, the postal power or any other [power in the constitution], we have no hesitation in advising the United Gas Improvement Co. and its subsidiary holding companies to refuse to register under...
...directly-in some activity over which the Federal Government . . . has jurisdiction. If the Constitution be construed to permit what the Public Utility Act aims to accomplish, then Federal authority would embrace practically all the activities of the people. . . . "B.) Congress . . . has exceeded its lawful authority under the postal power granted to it by the Constitution in that the Act arbitrarily and unreasonably denies completely the use of the mails to all persons and corporations embraced within the Act with respect to all of their activities as penalty for noncompliance and a means of compelling compliance. . . . The exclusion bears no relation...