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RELEASE TODAYHUM H'IW IS WSrHAKlt;.U ONh uu \s conn s ยป kit.Gould Releases French Citizen HeldIHere on I barges of ProfiteeringOn Motor Truck Contracts.Washington. D. C . July 29 Frank 'J Godsol, a French citizen, held here on charges of the French governmenthe profited several millions ofdollars on motor truck contracts, was discharged from custody today by justice Gould, of the district supreme court on a writ of habeas corpus. TheFrench government noted an appealand Godsol was released on $50,000 bonds, which he furnished in Libertybonds.Godsol was held by the district court June 27 for extradition to France. He is 4'*, wealthy, and served in the French army, later corningto this country as an attache of oneof the French war missions to negotiate motor truck contracts. 1Godsol was arrested March 8 on a warrant sworn out by the French embassy which set out that he had been indicted in France and that as a measure of getting him into French juris-
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Mon, Jul 29, 1918
Page 11
Full Page
Clipped by
Fredric S.
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