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Show oo INDICTED SOX SCOREIN COURT Accused Men Hear Charges; They Face in Coming I Bribery Trials CHICAGO. l"eb. 1C The- indicted baseball players who- am to he tried on March 18, in connection with the 1P19 world's series today wou their first preliminary move, when Judge William E- Denver granted them u bill of particular. A motion which sought lo hae the, state designate on which count of the Indictments the .stale would pro ee,i to trial was denied In U judge. Three of th prayers, Joe Jackson, I Claude Williams and George Weaver were in court and heard Assistant State's Attorney Gorman rend ex-' tracts from a confession which Jack-fon Jack-fon and Williams aro alleged to have! made to the grand jury. A statement by Jackson in which he was alleged to have sid th.it h. wa-s promised $25,0t0 but received I only H.O00 was read to the court by Prosecutor Gorman. which reading aroused the defendants' attorneys, one of whom asked: "Why don't you indict in-dict them for perjury ." Are you arming arm-ing lo a jury?" The prosecutor exclaimed loudly: "I w;uit to tell you that they nro run-nine run-nine dangerously dose to the border lino of perjurv." It was said that counsel for Weaver wni a'k for u separ. tc trial for that player. Weaver, ever since tho first disclosures as professed his Innocence. Inno-cence. oo |