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Show I i f Based on Confession of Franklin as to Where ' He Got His Money p T San. Francisco, Jan. 30. The San 'Francisco Call piluts today a special i -dispatch from Los Angeles stating that ( "from an authentic source" its cor-'. cor-'. Tesopndent is able 'to state that the indictment of Attorney Clarence S. 1 .Darrow for bribery was based upon, I information given in a confession of ilLBert H. Franklin, a detective omploy-fced omploy-fced by the dofense in tbe murdci trial &of James "B. McNamara. I Franlclin is awaiting trial Tor brtb-f brtb-f crv and attempted bribery, tf "The evidence against Darrow was obtained through statements made by Franklin to the district attoniey regarding re-garding the sources from -which he goL jhis money." according to tbe Call. a The two Indictments against Dar- row charge that he furnished the .fnnds with which, the state charges,- ijfFranklln worked. SB Evidence to be Made Public I J Los Angeles, Cal , Jan. 30. Wheth-fler Wheth-fler the Indictment returned against fClarence S. Darrow, the Chicago at-i at-i Storney, by the county grand Jury, Mwas based upon an alleged confession ijjfto that body by Bert 'H. Franklin, .former McNamara defense detective, ncharged with Jury bribing, probably wlll not bo definitely known before tthe case "comes to trial. Soon after I 5(be Indictment against Darrow for al-ISjfeged al-ISjfeged corruption of jurors in the Mc-jfljfNamara Mc-jfljfNamara case wero returned yestor-tfoday, yestor-tfoday, rumors became prevalent that MF'ranklin had told all he knew of tbe A' alleged Jury bribing to the grand I Jury. Neither the assistant district r attorneys, who have had charge of T the Investigation before the grand bj jury, nor Franklin himself, would C make any statement in denial. IU The prosecutors denied that the ft public would be compelled to await E the trial before learning what evl- dene was in possession of the state. 'Franklin, when asked if he had made any confession to tbo grand jury said fethnt he would not Issue any denial tiior would ho confirm the rumor. ' No surprjsn. was caused by the fn-v fn-v dictments as it was rumored persisted persis-ted 1y that tbo former chief cpumrel? V the confessed dynamiters woulcr $ C-vtflved In, tho Investigation into $ alleged jury corruption. The 'it rnoy indicated that he had reason !'Tto believe an iridictment would he returned against him, as several days before the report ot the investigators he had employed Attorney Earl Rogr crs to represent him. Rogers was employed in the prose-I prose-I cution of the Times dynamiters soon '' after the blowing up of the newspaper ' plant and some surprise was occasioned occa-sioned when his retention by Darrow became public, ( In a statement issued by Rogers, , the nttornoy declared that he had absolute ab-solute assurances of Darrow's Innocence. Inno-cence. oo |