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Show BRANDENBURG IS AGAIN BACK IN PRISON OFFICERS WILL TAKE HIM TO ST. LOUIS. There He Will Answer to Charge of Kidnaping Maximum Penalty Is Life Imprisonment. New York, June 23 Although Broughton Brandenburg was acquitted here today of the charge of grand larceny lar-ceny In connection with the sale of an alleged spurious letter of Grover Cleveland to the New York Times, he had only a few minutes of freedom. Before leaving the court room he was re-arrested and will be taken to St. Louis next week for trial on a cnarge of kidnaping his stepson, James Shep-ard Shep-ard Cabanne III. The maximum penalty for kidnaping kidnap-ing in Missouri is llfo imprisonment. The author was taken hack to the Tombs in default of $5,000 ball to await the arrival of tho Missouri officers. of-ficers. The verdict was reached by the Jurors Ju-rors within a few minutes after too presiding justice had charged them that the question of the genuineness of Cleveland's signature was immaterial imma-terial and that even the question of the genuineness of the article was only a secondary consideration. The main consideration, "he told them, was whether the defendant had stolen $500, the price paid for the article by the New York Times. The kidnaping, which Brandenburg admits, occurred shortly after tho writer jumped his ball' w,hlle under indictment for the sale or'the Cleveland Cleve-land article. lie was found in San Francisco with the Cabanne boy, whom he had picked up In St. Louis. Brandenburg declared he was Justified Justi-fied in tr.king tiie boy, because tho boy's father, with whom he had been j temporarily left, had not lived up to an agreement as to tho child's treatment. |