Show SPHINE IN THE REUF HEUF CASE 19 S 1 attorneys for former political boss of san francisco implicated in a confession of briber bribery claim Is made that they attempted to bribe man to get on the jury being secured for reefs trial and vote for his acquittal san francisco forming another sensational chapter lu in the muni municipal elpa bribery graft cases gi owing growing out ol of the alleged wholesale bribery ot of the board of supervisors lupei visors b by y abraham ruef the former po pa fitial boss and tile the result ant grand jury indictments and pros cc caution ution E A S blake a contractor en cn thursday confessed in open court that he held had at the of A S newburgh and frank J murphy two of reefs attorneys attempted to bribe john A kelly with nit an offer of 1000 to get on tiro jury now being secured to ta try on the charge ot of bribery and vote for his acquittal blake also made the statement t that after his arrest and conviction murphy camo came to him and agreed to put in the hands fiands of a third party to 10 lie be paid to td blake immediately after pe was sentenced and that his wife was to receive a month during the time that lie he was serving his sentence in the penitentiary if blake would keep quiet and not implicate murphy and newburgh the in promissory notes signed by ruel tind rind indorsed endorsed Indor sed by his father and sister and made payable to Al murphy urphy the prisoner Irl declared decIn red were now in th the hands of a third party which had been named by him to receive them prid hold them subject to its his order blake had been convicted of at tempting to bribe oahn A kelly a ve ril nareman reman drawn on the panel of the ruef jury and was about to be sentenced by judge frank H dunne when he said lie he had a statement to make d the disclosures made by burke came as it a surprise to his counsel but bill was not entirely unexpected to the crowded court room as it had bad been zil humored mored for some time that lie he would come gIr and bo be a witness for the prosecution against newburgh and Al murphy urphy both of whom are under tinder indictment on the same charge of which blake was convicted |