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Show SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST OFFICIAL Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi on Trial for Soliciting a Bribe of $50,000. JACKSON, Miss, July 6. That Theodore Theo-dore G. Bilbo, lieutenant governor of Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, offered for $50,000 to dismiss a suit brought by the state against the Edward Hines Lumber company, an Illinois Illi-nois corporation, was the charge made late today by Ira Sample, a Chicago attorney, at-torney, at the trial of the state official, who is accused of bribery. Judge Teat ruled that Mr. Sample's testimony be admitted when court reconvenes tomorrow. tomor-row. Mr. Sample, in the absence of the jurv, told the court he would testify that Bilbo had conferred with him regarding the Hines suit, alleging violations of the holding laws and seeking to recover $250,-000 $250,-000 in fines and penalties and to forfeit property of the corporation, and offered, as lieutenant governor during the absence ab-sence of the governor, to have the suit dismissed. The lieutenant governor, on the stand in his own behalf, today denied de-nied the charge of soliciting and accepting accept-ing a bribe in connection with the proposed pro-posed formation of a new county by the 1912 legislature. |