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Steel Company Officials Indicted Over Defective Tubes for Warships
Federal grand jury in Pittsburgh returns indictments against J. Jay Dunn Charles L. Close and Frank L. Emmett of Shelby Steel Tube Co for conspiracy to defraud the government by supplying defective holler tubes for boilers on 12 war vessels including the Louisiana Maine Pennsylvania Georgia Colorado Vermont Maryland Tennessee Washington Minnesota Nebraska and Charleston. The conspiracy allegedly operated from 1872 to 1905 with eyes on ships Roosevelt was visiting Panama aboard the Louisiana.
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