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Legal turmoil over Scribner case affidavits and blackmail claims
A sprawling affidavit batch in the Scribner boy case against the W C F N railway alleges Loren Risk paid witnesses and questions unprofessional conduct. Ackerman faces perjury charges amid claims of hypnosis and bribery, with officers and affidavits from multiple parties detailing conversations, alcohol influence, and attempts to sway testimony in the eight thousand five hundred dollar verdict dispute.
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Charles Scribner
Loren Risk
Scribner
J. W Ackerman
D. J. Goodman
St. Paul
Pinkerton
Corn Belt Telephone Co
Cedar Falls
Ackerman
Goodman
Metropole
Risk
Railway Company
Matthew Westrate
Affiant
Waterloo
Mr. Risk
Denver
Ing Bille
Waverly
Moving Picture
Metropole Hotel
Smythe
Mr. Sullivan
Symthe
Sullivan
Trueblood
Glen Scribner
W., C. FP. & WN. Railway
J. W. Ackerman
Hoth
Merrill C. Coburn
W. R. Court
J. H. Hoover
O. Myers
G. B. McLellan
Shores
J. T. Sullivan
Railw
Mr. Ackerman
Hoxie
Knapp
Osborne
Philip Osborne
Ilinois Central
C. E. Ransier
Alfred Longley
Ransier
Edwards, Longley, Ransier & Smith
Dubuque
Ransler
Longley
G. W. Smythe
G.W. Smythe
William Trueyload
Galloway