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Show l BROWNE ACQUITTED. ' Minority Leader of Illinois Free From Charge of Bribery. Chicago. Lee O'Noll Browne, minority mi-nority leader in the Illinois legislature, charged with bribery In connection with the election of William Lorlmor to the United States senate, was found not guilty by a jury in tho criminal court on Friday. This was Browne's second trial. The Jury disagreed in tho first trial. Tho reading of tho verdict absolving absolv-ing Browne from guilt was greeted with cheers from friends of Browne who crowded tho court room. The basis of tho indictment against Browne was that ho had bribed Representative Rep-resentative Charles A. White of O'Fallon, Ills., his colleague on the Democratic side of tho Il.inols general assembly, to voto for William Lorlmor for United States senator at the closo of the deadlocked session of the last state legislature. |