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Show ACQUITTED OF MURDER OF NEGRO BOAT STEERER . San Francisco, April 14 Eugene Gardner, connected with several prominent prom-inent Kentucky families, was acquitted acquit-ted yesterday afternoon of the charge of having murdered Joseph Cordoza, a negro boat steerer of the. whaler Bowhead, who was killed while tho vessel was in the Arctic Ocean. The ury was out over twenty-two hours. Gardiner's plea was self-defense. This was his second trial In the circuit court, the. former' jury having disagreed. |