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Show ST. LOUIS DELEGATES ,1 CONVICTED OF BRIBERY ST. 'LOUIS, April 21. Kord Warner, member of the Mouse of Delegates of St. Louis, was tonight convicted of bribery by a jury and sentenced to serve two years In the penitentiary, tho minimum sentence. Warner wns convicted of having accepted ac-cepted n bribe, of $f00 for Influence In l the passage of an ordinance permitting tho erection of a garage. Delegate Fred Prlosmoyer. Indicted jointly with Warner, War-ner, will next be placed on trial. Testimony brought Into 'the trial showed that tho $500 paid by Henry Ascher. the owner eif the garage, to Inilu-encc Inilu-encc legislation, had boon furnished by Mayor Wells and hnd bcon marked by CMnult Attorney Soger before it was passed to Ascher to trap tho delegates. j |