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Show LEGISLATOR M I0T ESCAPE LSI COLUMBUS, O , May 2. Ohio legislators, legis-lators, who hoped by testifying before tho grand Jury now investigating bribery in the assembly, to escape conviction con-viction by means of nn Immunity bath, wore disappointed today when Prosecuting Prose-cuting Attorney Turner nnd Attorney General Hogan refused to aoccpt their testimony. Other Immunity baths were headed off yesterday when an Investigation by a legislative committee was deferred until after the grand jury nnlshod its work. The prosecutors have doclined to accept overtures from assembly-men. assembly-men. Tho grand jury was in tession all day, and among Its witnesses, besides detectives, who disclosed the corruption, corrup-tion, was Governor Harmon and Judg-e Blair of Portsmouth, who conducted the recent campaign which resulted In tho disfranchisement of 1,800 voters in Adams county ror election frauds A bill Is ponding In the assombly to legislate Blair out of his present Judicial Ju-dicial district nnd out of a place on the bench. Rumors have been current of wrongdoing in connection with the measure. Detective W. J. Burns was at the courthouse, but would not testify. The grand jury has made no reporL nn |