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Show SCHMITZ FREE FROM CHARGE formsf Mayor of San Francisco Found Not Guilty of Having Bribed Supervisor. Ban Francisco. F.ugene K. ScbmlU, former mayor of San Francisco, who wag Indicted In May. 18t7. on chars' frif having bribed a supervisor In the no-called gas cases, was set free on Tuesday by a superior court J!ry ' ing undrr Instructions from Judgo William 1. Lawlor. The court lield that no evidence connecting the defendant with the ; crime of bribery had been Introduced at the trial. ltoth SchmlU and Ruef were In t h courtroom during; the -proceedings. After Af-ter the jury had filed out, Judge Law-lor Law-lor entered an order for Ruef's return (to Kan Quentln penitentiary. Huef was brought here to testify agaln.t Schmitz, but refused to go on the Btand. |