Lueders

The indictment filed by the United States attorney charged that on or about the 23d day of February, 1912, the defendant, within the Southern Division of the Western District of Washington, while he was a bankrupt under the Bankruptcy Act, did willfully, knowingly, .fraudulently, and unlawfully conceal and cause to be concealed from one J. M. Phillips, who was then and there the duly appointed, qualified, and acting trustee in bankruptcy of the *421 defendant, a bankrupt, certain property, to wit, certain lands situate in the county of Morrow, state of Oregon (which property was particularly described and set forth in the indictment), of the value of $25,000, to which the estate of said bankrupt then and there had a certain right, claim, and interest.

It appeared from a bill of particulars furnished to the defendant by the government that the manner of concealment of the real estate referred to in the indictment was as follows: The defendant, having bought certain property in the town of Winloclc, in the state of Washington, commonly known as the “St. James Hotel property,” from one Carl Buege, took title to it in the name of Anna Reinhardt without any consideration moving to the…