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i * i “4 a : “ + 1 . + : é ee: t - 4 7 eee - Ta et = Jeimar 3 194 og CR SRR re RT a eee RE ee eS ot a ae i Vn. tine -, “al. ae ~ er de ee, To - . . - at wee ee . McNabb Ruling frees. 5 in ‘Plot’ fo Harbor Sedition Fugitive 2 By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Feb. 24.—A recent ureme Court _ decision holding atements made by defendants & prior to arraignment before a United f e States commissioner are inadmis- Mr. Hendon --.-.---.- Mr. Mumford ........ Mr, fitarke ..........- Mr. Quiap Tams ..-.. Mr. Naaee......-.. .-. led to dismissal of conspiracy in- dictments yesterday against fivell: Fpersons, one the daughter ef Wii- liam Dudley Pelley, former Silver @ Shirt leader. oe 6UCAfter «United States Attorney my Charles F, Uhl moved to drop the poharges that the five had con-—£. © spired to “harbor and conceal af a ft e from justice’--Howard Vic-F g toré"Broenstrupp, who Mider in- diciment in Washington with Pelley } and 28 others on sedition charges— i Assistant United States Attorney fw George Mashank explained: “The case {s closed as far as web here are concerned because the evi- me dence became Mmadmissible by rea- Mason of a recent Supreme Court decision. » “That decision, by Justice Felix Frankfurter in the United States: vs. McNabb, held ‘that all state-F ‘ments obtained from defendants , », prior to arraignment before a United . States Commissioner are inadmis- sible,” The McNabb decision was handed) down, Mr. Mashank said, after FBIt. pagents here had obtained state-f ments from the five defendants. } The five d sed here are: Ade-F laide_ Marion »gPelley,\ , Noblesville, Ind.; Marguerite Mari FMichael, i Indlanapolist* Frank A. iner, Poland, Ohio; Victor WarrerHoye, iNew Castle, Pa., and Henry H an Meine, New Galilee, Pa. =" = ~ FRI agents arrested them in 1942, soon after apprehending Broen- strupp in Meine’s Beaver County (Pa. cottage. They were indicted on a charge bt “conspiracy to har- bor and conceal @ fugitive from LAU 87 FEB 28 1944 ™ . eens een This is a clipping from page A-S of the Washington Star for - ee fe pped at the Seat o Government,