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Show ' A LEGISLATOR IXDICTED. .The Grand .Jury Finds True-Bills After a Legislative Whitewash. Sax Francisco, Oct. 22. The grand jury late yesterday afternoon made a partial re-' re-' port to Superior Judire Wallace. The re- i port consisted of the finding of two indict ments against Assemblyman KIwood Bruner of Sacrameuto. One indictment charges Bruner with the crime of perjury, committed while giviug testimony in the grand jury room. The other indictment' charges Bruner with malfeasance in office during the late session of the legislature. The malfeasance mal-feasance consisted in killing the. bill providing provid-ing for cinching the cut-rate ticket brokers, particularly in the case of Ticket Broker Ot-tingtr Ot-tingtr of tiiis city, who accuses Bruner, in connection with Assemblyman Call of Alameda, Ala-meda, of attemptiug to blackmail him out of ' $1000. Judge Wallace ordered bench war rants issued for the arrest of Bruner, which was immediately done. Bruuer is the man who was charged with selling positions ou the Sau Francisco police force. A legislative legislat-ive committee investigated the case, and returned a majority report of guilty with extenuating circumstances. The legislature j refused to receive the report of the cominit- tee and so vindicated Bruner. - a . |