Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — Pleads Guilty to Bribery. [ARTICLE]

Pleads Guilty to Bribery.

St Louis, June 28.—Edmund Bersch, former member of the house of delegates, pleaded guilty before Judge McDonald in tbe criminal division of the circuit court to the charge of bribery in accepting $2,500 of tbe $47,500 boodle fund for hts vote on the city ligbtiug bill. Sentence will be pronounced Friday.