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Show CONFESSES THAT HE SWORE FALSELY CHICAGO, Dec. S. Samuel Bergcr, a convict at the Fort Leavenworth penitentiary, peniten-tiary, testified before a federal grand jury here today that an affidavit he had signed charging Federal Judge Landls, 13. G. Godtnan and Harry A. Parkin, ns-Blstant ns-Blstant district atlornoys, with conspiracy, was without foundation. The affidavit wa.s filed in the United Slates court by Hyman Epstein, a Chicago Chi-cago attorney, who served a sentence of fifteen months in Fort Leavenworth on a charge of perjury. It charged that Samuel Silver, whose testimony had sent Epstein to prison, and who wns himself sentenced to prison for perjury, had boon Berger's cellmate and had confessed to Dcrgor that his ovldencc against Epstein had been false. Epstein charged that Judgo Landls and tho attorneys had been In a conspiracy to send him to prison. Judge Landls denied tho charge and ordered a complete investigation in-vestigation Into tho affidavit by tho United States grand Jury. |