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Show Another Show for His Elfe. Sax Francisco. Cal.. Aug. 15. Sidney i Bell's second trial for the murder of young j Jacobson, whom he killed on February 10, 1800, in an attempt to rob him on the street, opens to-day. The new trial was grauted on the strength of the statements of Charles Schmidt, who subsequently committed suicide sui-cide in prison. Srhmidt claimed that ti:e evidence of Campbell, one of the leading witnesses for the prosecution. was false, and that Schmidt himself had committed perjury in the case at the suggestion of the San Francisco police. |