Show A CELEBRATED CASE Cost the Senate Fifty Thousand Dollars Dol-lars and the Sentence Was One Year Little Rock Ark Feb 24 After deliberating de-liberating two and a half hours the > jury in the Woodruff case at Perry yule late last night returned retured a verdict ver-dict of guilty and fixing the punishment punish-ment at one years Imprisonment This is the fourth trial of the famous fam-ous case and has cost the state nearly near-ly 50000 Woodruff was tried in 1891 1 on the charge of embezzlement the jury failing to reach a verdict He was next tried in 1892 on the same c charge and the trial again resulted In a hung jury standing 10 to 2 for conviction con-viction In 1893 he was tried on the charge of misappropriating state funds and was acquitted The present pres-ent specific charge was false pretenses In obtaining the signatures of the state debt board to an order to sell certain scrip to one Johnson L Jones Woodruffs bondsmen have paid Into the state treasury 109000 on account of his defalcations I |