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Show NEWBURGH ACQUITTED v OF BRIBERY CHARGE San Francisco. April if.. A. S, New-burgh, New-burgh, associate counsel for Abraham Ruef, the former political boss, recently recent-ly convicted of bribery, was acquitted by a jury tonight of halng attempted to bribe a talesman ou the Ruef jury panel. The jury was out two hours and forty-five minutes, and after taking tak-ing five ballots, returned a verdict of not guilty. Xewburgh's trial was one of the many ramifications of the bribery graft prosecution in San Francisco. He was indicted upon the charge of having tried to bribe John M. Kelly, a pros-pecthe pros-pecthe juror, during the second 1 rial of Ruef, to qualify for the jury and vote for acquittal of the former political politi-cal boss. For this, it was alleged, Kelly was lo receive $1,000. Frank J. Murphy, another of Ruef'b attorneys, indicted upon the same charge, was tiled and acquitted several weeks ago. The principal witness for the prosecution prose-cution was E. A. S, Blake, a contractor, contrac-tor, the alleged go-between between Ruef's attorneys and Kelly, After being be-ing tried and "found guilty of having attempted to bribe the talesmau. Blake made a sensational confession In court and declared that Newburgh aud Murphy Mur-phy liad promised him $10,000 if be would ' take his medicine" and not expose ex-pose them. He says further, that they had agreed .to pay his wife a liberal sum monthy while he was in the penitentiary. |