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Show -oo IS. BAIN COLLAPSES In Bribery Hearing of Franklin in Los Angeles Los Angeles, Ca'l., Dec. 19. Borl H. Franklin, tho detectivo accused of having bribed a sworn juror in tho trial of the confessed dynamitcrT James B. MeNamnra, was confronted today at his preliminary hearing bjl the woman whose statement to the district attorney produced the second of a series of bribery charges in connection con-nection with the famous case. Tho woman was Mrs. Dora Bain, who told tho district attorney that she had acopted ?500, of a $4,000 fund promised on condition that sho would influence her husband, Robert F. Bain, ono of the sworn jurors In the case. Mtb., Bain's statement followed Franklln'8 -arrest on a chargcdf hav lnrnttr'mnted to hrlhe"G?nrce,'5J LockvoodA a prospective Juror In tho ( trial of .lames IB McNamara. j Mrs Bain's testlmom was taken i after a proffer made by Franklin's , counsel, former Governor Henry T. Gago, to admit her Btory by stipulation, stipula-tion, had been declined bj- the state When Mrs. Bain went under cross-examination cross-examination tho first quoBtion propounded pro-pounded bv Attorney Gago rendered her ao nervous .that sho collapsed and Justice Young was constrained to i order a short recess. After the recess, Gago modified his previous question and asked: - 1 ''Did you induce your husband to accept a bribe?" "Yes." the witness answered faintly faint-ly and again collapsed. The bribery charge against Thomas M White, accused of complicity In the corruption of members of the police po-lice "purity squad." was dismissed toda at tho request of Dcput District Dis-trict AUorne Frank Rlalr The prosecutor's pros-ecutor's action was the result of the iccent supreme court decision that a defendant could not bo convicted of bribery on tho testimony of accomplices. ac-complices. The dismissal of White, it Is 1k;-llcved, 1k;-llcved, will have an important bearing on tho Franklin case. |