Bridges

An indictment was found and returned against defendants Harry Renton Bridges, Henry Schmidt, and J. R. Robertson. The several counts, embraced in the indictment, are as follows, to wit:

“FIRST COUNT-. ( 18 U.S.C., Section 88 ; Now 18 U.S.C. Section 371 [ 18 U.S.C.A. § 371 ])......on or about the 23rd day of June, 1945, and continuing thereafter until on or about October 1, 1945, and for some time prior thereto, the exact time being to the Grand Jury unknown, at the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, within said Division and District, did conspire with each other, and with divers other persons tO' the Grand Jury unknown, to defraud the United States by impairing, obstructing and defeating the proper administration of its naturalization laws, -in the manner following, to wit: By having said defendant Harry Renton Bridges fraudulently petition for and obtain naturalization in a naturalization proceeding in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the City and County of San Francisco, by falsely and fraudulently stating and representing to the said Court in said proceeding numbered 28152 in the records of said Superior Court, that he, said…