Daily globe., 1882-09-12


close of the proceedings last Thursday youl
honor made some severe structures upor
attempts made to bribe some members Of
the jury. l stated then that upon the dis
position of this case / would present such
facts as have. VIII present them in 9
sworn statement to yous
.1he Court-NO, sir; not at all. Your
experience may have been different from
that OF other members of the jury. Nc
doubt 1T is. That is matter that will
probably be Investigated in another way.
Ii does not belong to your verdict.
D1ckson-No relation whatever!
The Court-No, if it be true as reported
to me by several members of this jury that
efforts to bribe have been made, l think
no more abominable, no more censurable
depth of crime can be made. / think this
IS not the place for court or jury to talk on
that subject. 1t is matter that should be
IN the hands of the officers of the law. and
If any scoundrel be convicted of such an
attempt q don't know whether Jury would
convict him or not) we shall endeavor to
do our duty as court Good bye, gentle
men.
. Ingersoll-We have no objection to the
jury stating who approached them.
Merrick-Nor have we, and the govern
ment will examine the whole matter.
Wilson-And counsel for defense will
have a hand in the examination. The
government will not make the examination
by itself.
Merrick-Pardon me, sir: but the gov
ernment will, and put it where it belongs.
The Court (smiling)-I never was so
happy in my life. Here are both sides
anxious to expose a crime. and we shall
certainly have conviction next time.
The court then adjourned till Wednesday.
One of the jurors gives the following in
formation as to the result of the balloting:
On the first ballot as to all the defendants,
with the exception Turner, the vote stood
for conviction s, acquittal 4. On the final
ballot the vote as to Brady stood for con-
victiction 10, for acquittal 2; the vote as
to S. n. Dorsey stood for conviction 8. for
acquittal 3; the vote as to J. w. Dorsey
stood for conviction 10, for acquittal 3;
the vote as to Vale stood for conXiction l,
for acquittal 1.
The verdict in the star route cases is re-
ceived with profound astonishment by.
counsel and bar, as well as the general
public.
In an interview with a member of the
associate press, Mr.. William Dickson, fore
man of the jury, made a general state
ment in regard to the alleged attempts at
bribery, but would give no formal state
ment for publication. He said he would
tomorrow lay before the district attorney.
or his assistant, such facts as were within
his knowledge. On the 23d of August he
had been approached with an offer of
$4,000 by on officer connected with the
department of justice, who produced let
ters of appointment as special agent of
that department and stated he was author
lied TO act in the matter if he would
vote for the conviction of Brady
and S. W. Dorsey. That statement would
be corroborated by witnesses and by cir
cumstantial evidence. When he made his
offer in court to-day to make his sworn
he intended to take the stand.
but upon reflection he was sure that the
course pursued by the court was a better
one, as he would be placed in false po-
sition. There were others of the Jury who
had been approached from different direc-
tions, but the sums offered were small
from $4,000 to $1,000. The man who APP
preached him told him he represented the
attorney general, but ne Dickson did not
believe that. He concluded the man took
him for fool, and that his only
protection was to notify Judge
Wylie of the matter He suggested to
Judge Wylie that he should coax the man
on, but the judge remarked that it was too
much like police duty, and advised hirn to
do nothing but to keep clear of the man.
The foIIou5;nc day the 7oau ce,t y oo-d
asking for an interview, and appointing
the time and place. He made no reply and
had not seen the man or his companion
(who was an officer of the department of
justice) from that day to this. He made
inquiries few days later and learned the
man had left the city on the following day.
He did not believe the man had S25, much
less S25.00O, and it was his opinion the man
had been employed to get the unwary to
commit themselves. He would not allow
this matter to drop, but would see the
thing through.