Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1902 — CONVICTION OP A BRIBER [ARTICLE]

CONVICTION OP A BRIBER

tint of the St. Louis Cases Results la m Sentence of Five Years In the Penitentiary. St Louis, Get o.—Robert McClure Snyder was convicted of bribery In the criminal court Saturday night and sentenced to five years Imprisonment In the state penitentiary, after the Jury had considered for-fifty nine minutes its verdict on the case, which had occupied an entire week In presentation. Two of his attorneys, Judge Henry S. Priest and Morton Jourdan, signed his appeal bond for $25,000, securing Ids release until the term of court commencing today. This Is the first conviction of the bribery cast's. The defense was almost entirely an attempt to prove that no conviction could is* had because of the statute of limitations, the nub of the matter being whether Snyder was a resident of Missouri. If h<* was the statute came between him and conviction. Ills lawyers thought they had proved Ills residence In this state, and were surprised .at. Jim—verdict,