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Show INNOCENT MAN HAS CLOSE SHAVE New York. Feb 8 William Far-reu Far-reu regards it as a close shave that, (as an innocent man, be is not on hlu way io Sing Sing prison for a life I iterm Brought to trial on nine separate sep-arate countn. charging robbery, assault as-sault and grand larceny. Fan-en ats ; declared by seven witnesses as the : man who held them up at the poln of a revolver .in the bath beach section sec-tion of Brooklyn on the night of No-vt No-vt mber 9. If convicted he would have been lloble to prison terms amounting to 84 years. Notwithstanding the certainty cer-tainty of the witnesses against Far-ren, Far-ren, Judge Dike In the Kings county coun-ty court yesterday directed the jury I to acquit him because four reputable I citizens had sworn to an alibi. |