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Show PARDONS PROMISED TO BOODLERS, SAYS KELLY , OF ST. LOUIS COMBINE ST. LOUIS, Oct 3. In a written confession con-fession today Charles F Kelly, Speaker of the House of -Delegates during a period in the life of the boodle combine, relates the story of that combine. Kelly Is under conviction . for perjury per-jury In connection wlth'boodle' cases and his trial on the charge of bribing In connection with the Suburban franchise fran-chise deal will be called Monday. He is now out 6n bond. He declares that a prominent local lo-cal politician promised himself and others implicated that the next Circuit . Attorney would be "all right", and promised if they would re main firm he would secure for them either continuances until the new Circuit Cir-cuit Attorney took office or pardons afterward. af-terward. He declared that the politician said the next Circuity Attorney, for which office nominations are to be made by .the Democrats today, would be "his man." Kelly declares he refused this offer, and that he makes this confession to satisfy the pangs of an accusing conscience, con-science, to obey the requests of his wife and to do what he can to make atonement atone-ment to the public and prevent other young men from following the path which he declares has led him to ruin. In the course of his confession Kelly details the story of the city lighting deal, for which a boodle fund of $47,500 was divided between the nineteen members mem-bers of the combine at Julius Lehmann'a birthday party. He declares that this politician gave him the boodle fund, that he took it to Lehmann's house and that he there divided it. In the course of his confenlon, former for-mer Speaker Kelly said: "I know from my own knowledge and from the statements ina4e to me by those on the inside thaTthe ludbery has been going on In the municipal assembly assem-bly of St. Louis for the past twenty-five years. Hardly a bill passed that body in the last quarter of a century unless it was paid for. We did not fear exposure ex-posure and punishment for the reason that w-e believed that no one would dare to do It In case of attack, we knew most of the politicians and many of the large financiers of St.. Louis would be with us. A former prosecutor showed Blgns of starting after us, but he was bluffed off. "When the present prosecutor (Circuit (Cir-cuit Attorney Folk is meant here) commenced com-menced his war on us. we tried to Intimidate In-timidate him by threats of assassination, assassina-tion, and when this had no effect we laid all sorts of traps for him without success." i t |