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CHARGES AGAINST' SAN FRANCISCO MAYOR. A PAINFUL SENSATION. Press Associatinn-Bv Teletrraph-Copyright NEW YORK, Jan. 11. The decision of the Appellate Court in California- discharging the' late Mayor lEugene Schmitz) and his accomplice (a, lawyer named Ruef) on charges of "graft." has created an intense and mostpainful senKitiion. The Court declares. inter alia. thai, blackmailing a- saloon proprietor is no crime, since there is grave doubt whether a license is property. Schmidt has been'released on bail pending a. new trial. ACQUITTED ON TECHNICALITIES. LONDON. Jan. 11._ The San Francisco corrcspomlcnl of the "Times" referring lo,thc release of Schmidt and Ruef says that there are- many oilier indictments against I hem but the chances arc that both w-Tl obtain the.r liberty. Schmidt's vcccnl conviction was annulled on nine technicalities :>>><' the whole campaign of the pioseculioii i-' i" danger of collapsing.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13491, 13 January 1908, Page 5
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