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Show DEFENDED Rogers Says Labor Attorney At-torney Scored Victory In McNamara Case Los Angeles, Aug. 11 Characterizing Characteriz-ing the agreement Ju the McNamara case aa a remarkable victory for Dar-row Dar-row and a heinous' thing on the part of the district attorney, Attorney Earl Rogers ' resumed his argument today In the bribery trial of Clarence S. Darrow. Rogers declared that the McNamaras were guilty of a "hideous, "hide-ous, horrible crime." yet the district attorney had agreed not only to allow ono to escape nanging and the other to take a term of fifteen years In prison, but to allow Caplan and Schmidt, two of the men actually In-olvcd In-olvcd in the 'Times murder, to go free, providing they remained out of the eounfrV. Attacking the testimony of BerJ. H, Franklin, Rogen, asserted that If Darrow Dar-row had known that Juror Bain was bribed early in October, he would not have told Lincoln Steffens- In the presence pres-ence of E. W. Scrlpps that he regard- od the case as hopeless. The danger In Franklin's story, con- 1 tinued Rogers, was that all of It was true except small portions that particularly par-ticularly where he received the bribe money and as to who authorized the corruption of jurors. |