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LAWYER TRIED TO SCALP AWARD OF HERO BOARDSued for Service* to Miner Whose Deed He Extolled to the Carnegie Commission, and Lost.Belleville, III., Nov. II.—1The first attempt of a lawyer to collect for service* in connection with the award of a Carnegie hero medal was overthrown here today when a Jury in the circuit court found a verdict for Theodore Boettcher, a hero miner who was suedfor 1350 by Attorney Thomas R. Mould on the around that Mould secured for him a medal and I860. The verd*ct was rendered on the testimony of Frank Si. Wilmot of Pittsburg, secretary and manager of the Carnegie Hero fund commission, who said the $850 was paid Boettcher to liquidatea mortgage on his home, and who told Mould when the attorney went before the commission that paid attorneys weie not recognised as such by the commissioners and was assured by Mould that he was acting as a friend.
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Wed, Nov 13, 1907
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