Show E H D DRIGGS IG S T TOOr K THE O Oury Jury ury Finds linds lie He Accepted a Bribe In Ill Return For Vor Securing a it Government Contract THEY RECOMMENDED MERCY Judge Wanted to Inflict a n Sentence Without Imprisonment Hut Could Not New Neti Jan delibera deliberating ting ling 15 5 minutes today tOlla a I jury found former critter r Congressman 1 1 IOU H n guilty of 0 accepting money to ti procure a 1 contract between a 1 private company and the government while 1 h 1113 serving nerving us lit n ut 1 member ot of Congress The Jury JUr recommended melCY In lit Judge Thomas said ald the time rc was WRY entirely titling fitting us till Air Ir had conducted himself auth lIh dignity nail because ho lie edly violated the statute unfittingly Judg tala salu lie Ito believed Mr Dr uns ivas as y only In lii u n technical sense ute a so After Aller tIme the Jury lund Imd been discharged tho the court denied d the motion tor a n new trial nut reserved decision oil all a n mo me molion lion for a stay of ot proceedings pending an alt appeal al Judge Judg Thomas tout told 10 hI the lie lh counsel they agree on Oil a II day do tor br sentence Ho lie saId naldI saIdI l I 1 wish 1 could couill a sentence without imprisonment but bill I cannot under the th law II 1 I shall make malto the tho eim cn n tence a nil as light no nR I possibly can You Driggs Drigge are ore free Irto to como come and go as 08 you rol please t 31 tIr 1111 r admitted that ho he had Imd 50 GO o of 0 tho the Cashier compan machines mil chines In various departments of oC the tha at Washington and that ho Ito howay heVa way was Va pattI paid by tho the company Mr also so admitted that he lie gave guve mon mono money moncy ey cy to 10 W S Heavers Beavers who was ns a I lit in lii tho ha depart delart department ment Ho He declared Unit that ut at the lie time he ito gave save 2800 in III iwo 1900 it wua woe not lIot lor br services rendered but bill vent toward a t foreign feIgn to fund At the 1110 time Driggs was wasa a candidate for tor president of ot a u borough of ot Brooklyn I While I waa In III Washington ashIngton Mr lr Ir Drigg testified Air dr Miller a representative of the company conic cumo to me Inc and said that ho lie had lund a II business proposal to 0 make After Arter via we 0 lund Imd talked over the tho matter I told ohl Mr Sillier Miller t 1 thought the time machines were a good thing and that they thoy should bo be pushed on their merits 1 I promised to take up tho machine and push it I J acted merely as IS a citI cill citIZen zon Zen endeavored to get gat tho the machine Into lute banks blinks and department stores and amid went ns as far as Denver Deaver and amid the tho coast COil st All 11 this time limo I was acting not be hO because cause enuse I was WIlS a of 0 Con Can gress but a good gool business proposition hud had been made to me Finally 1 I got Kot an nn order to fo machines which were ivore to tobe tobe tobe be placed In tho the postoffice 11 I never noer asked n ii member of 0 Congress to aid nit ate nor did I 1 bring brine the mutter matter before any congressional Tho The machines went Into tho the depart department ment meat on their merits For l or my two years yearn work for the company I 1 received rec through Mr Miller This was wall my compensation for all the work worl done and net for any ony special contract se so secured secured cured Mr Driggs declared that he ho never paid money malIC to any Olio onu III In connection M with the tIme work for or tho the company |