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Show ; :;:r.i;ciAL ageijt. ! IS ACQUITTED i ::rr Decides 7i!soa Is :-: Hot Gsflly of P: -"iaa' Payrc!IS. , NEW TORK, March 27. Frederick H T ' i.'ilaon, formerly financial agent anddl- i trlbutlng clerk in the Indian bureau ware-1 ware-1 , 1 ouse, was acquitted of the charge of pad-fin pad-fin the payroll at the warehouse by a - Jjry In the United States Circuit court yesterday. The speclflo charge was that Wilson t iut H. I Sayres, a political friend, on I ', ythe payroll as a laborer for December. -making affidavit that he had done - ork for which he wa entitled to receive '3. of $75. Wilson admitted that Sayre . ; .adone no work, but said he had ,been .ken on with the Idea that he would be mnled and was discharged as soon aa It -ns found that he wa not needed. Wilson has been for year assistant . h airman of the speakers' bureau of the Republican national committee and was . " formerly right hand man to Rlohard Ker- rns of Missouri. ' '.. Witnesses called by both the prosecutor nd the defense testified that buslnea at t he Indian bureau warehouse wa run in a go-a-you-pleae way, and the 'laborer Hernate In day off and received full pay ' while aick. They also admitted that Wil- mn spent little of his time at the ware- 1 ouse, and there were days when, he did ! aot appear at alL - : |