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Show DARROW CHARGES ARE DISMISSED I Los Angeles County Records Cleared of Last Vestige of iMcNamara Trial. BONDSMEN RELEASED Testimony Adduced in Two S Trials to Prove Bribery Insufficient In-sufficient to Convict. Loe Angeles. Cal., Dec JO. County records of Los Angeles county were cleared today of the last vestige ol the famous McNamara dynamiting ca f sea when tho Indictments charging bribery against Clarence Darrow, who was counsel for the dynamiters, were ; dismissed. District Attorney Fredericks told Judgo Jackson of the superior court that Darrow had been tried twice once when the Jury' acquitted him L and again when the jury disagreed and that the evidence, In the light ol previous experiences, was not suffi clent to convict. The indictments against Darrow ' were the outcome of the sensational I episode Immediately preceding the Midden determination of the McNa maras to plead guilty, when Bert I Franklin, one of Darrow'a agents, was arrested on the street In the alleged L act of bribing George Lockwood, a jurv venireman, summoned in the dy f namitlng case. Robert Bain, the I first Juror chosen to try the McNa I niara. then confessed that he had ac I I cepted a bribe of $".00 with the prom ise of ?2eiifi more Franklin became I a state witness against Darrow. The I attornev was acquitted when tried In the Lockwood case, the jury- disagree-I disagree-I f Ing when he was called to the bar I on the Bain accusation Darrow has been under bonds ag tti pregating Slf.""( for two years. Hie bondsmen were released today |