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Show ROOSEVELT WINS LIBEL SUIT. Jury Decides Former President Spoke Truth When He Charged Barnes With Being a Boss. Syracuse, N. Y. Twelve men chosen as a jury to determine whether Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt libeled William Barnes when he charged that he worked through a ".corrupt alliance between crooked business and -crooked politics," poli-tics," and that he was "corruptly allied al-lied with Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Tam-many hall," on May 22 returned a verdict in favor of the former president. presi-dent. In the belief of the jury everything every-thing Colonel Roosevelt said about the former chairman of the Republican state committee was true, and therefore there-fore Mr. Barnes was not libeled. Counsel for Mr. Barnes announced that an appeal would be taken. |