Show SON ACCUSED OF SLANDER ON DEAD IS FREED LOS ANGELES July 15 By By By The Associated Press paul press Paul Bender who placed a sign on his fathers father's grave reading good riddance of bad rub rub- rubbish rubbish rubbish bish Thursday was acquitted In mu mu- municipal municipal municipal court on charges of blacken blackenIng blackening ing the memory of the dead The Jury after a brief deliberation decided that the year old sailors sailor's act did not constitute the crime of which he was accused The prosecution evidence and also the youths youth's testimony on the witness stand showed that on Decoration day his step mother step step- Mrs Robert Bender told him to place flowers on his fa fathers fa- fa fathers father's fathers father's ther's grave With the flowers the sailor s. posted the sign His step step- stepmother stepmother mother caused his arrest Objections of the prosecution pre pre- prevented prevented prevented vented the sailor from froni testifying to the Ill feeling feeling which had been between himself and his father whom he ac accused ac- ac accused accused of deserting the defendants defendant's mother no hypocrite was vas Benders Bender's defense at the time of his arrest |