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BLAKESLEE v. UNITED STATES

No. 2310.

32 F.2d 15 (1929)

BLAKESLEE et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 25, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter W. McKiernan, of Providence, R. I. (John C. Going, of Providence, R. I., on the brief), for appellants Blakeslee and others.

Ambrose Kennedy and James T. Greene, both of Woonsocket, R. I. (James T. Greene and Greene, Kennedy & Greene, all of Woonsocket, R. I., on the brief), for appellants Kelly and Leary.

Joseph E. Fitzpatrick, Asst. U. S. Atty., of Providence, R. I. (John S. Murdock, U. S. Atty., of Providence, R. I., on the brief), for the United States.

Before BINGHAM and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges, and MORRIS, District Judge.

ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.

On March 15, 1928, in the District of Rhode Island, seventeen persons were indicted for conspiracy, between September 15 and December 29, 1927, to violate the National Prohibition Act (27 USCA), by buying the Glenbrook Worsted plant on Mason street, Woonsocket, and fitting up it up as a distillery for making alcoholic liquor from molasses. Of these seventeen persons, one, Marchand, dropped dead the night before the trial began; the indictment...

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