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Show I oo HI SMITH IS IT GUILTY; Arrested when tho police found liquor on his premises and charged with bootlegging, Martin Smith was yesterday acquitted by a jury of having hav-ing violated the prohibition law. It innlr 4 V. hiif flflrtnn mimitnc In decide that Smith was innocent of the charge, in spite of tho testimony of the police officers and of Shelby Thompson, the young man who was seen to come from tho Smith home with liquor. Attorney Joseph Chez and attorney David L. Stine were the counsel for , Smith. Tho jury was composed of W. B. Lake, who was the foreman of the grand jury that was in session here this spring. C. W. Swanson, Alfonso Taylor and Henry Bell. The case was tried in Harrisville, before Justice of the Peace Shurtliff. Smith had obtained a change of venue by asserting that Judge Geo. S. Barker, of the municipal court was prejudiced against hlro. |