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Show SPRING SENSATiON j i THE REUF CASE Attorneys for Former Political Boss of San Francisco Implicated in a Confession of Bribery. Claim is Made That They Attempted to Bribe Man to Get on the Jury Being Secured for Ruef's Trial and Vote for Hla Acquittal. San Francisco. Forming another scnsntlomtt chapter In tho municipal bribery graft cases growing out of the alleged wholesalo bribery of tha "Schmltz" hoard of supervisors by Abraham Htief, tho former po-lltlal po-lltlal boss, and tho result' ant grand Jury Indictments nnd prosecution, pros-ecution, 10. A. S. Illake, a contractor, cn Thursday confessed in open court that he had, at tho Instltgatlon of A. 8. Newburgh and Frank J. Murphy, two of Kuef's attorneys, attempted to brlbo John A. Kelly with an offer of $1,000 to get on tlte Jury now being fecurod t( try Kucf on tho charge of bribery and vote for his acquittal. Illake also nindo tho Btntomont that nfter his arrest and conviction Mur t by ennic to him nnd ngreod to put $10,000 in tho hands or n third parly, to bo paid to lllako Immediately nfter ho was sentenced, nnd tlrat his wife was to receive $100 a month during the time that ho was serving his sen-tenco sen-tenco In tho penitentiary, If Ulako would "keep quiet" nnd not Implicate Murphy and Nowburgh. Tho $10,000 In promissory notes signed by Huef mid Indorsed by his father nnd sister, nnd nindo pnynhlo to Murplry. tho .prisoner declared, wero now In tho hands of a third party which had Leon named by him to receive them and hold them subject to his order. Hlako had been convicted of attempting at-tempting to brlbo oJhn A. Kelly, a venireman ve-nireman drawn on tho panel or tho Huef Jury, and was about to bo son. tenced by Judge Frank 11. Dunne, when ho snld ho hnd n statement to mnko Tho disclosures made by Ilurko came as a surprise to his counsel, but was not entirely unexpected to the. crowded court room, ns It had been tuniorod for somo tlmo that he would "Ck'iiiio through" nnd bo a witness for the prosecution against Nowburgh nnd Murphy, both of whom nre tinder Indictment on tho same charge of whUh Dlnko was convicted. |