St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-09
The Old Boomerang About Broken-An
Interesting Account Of Where
1t Came From.
The Fourth Concert of the May Festival a
Pronounced Success Haydn's
Seasons" Given.
Some Important Decisions from the
Supreme Court--Meeting OF
the Water Board.
The Amusement Record Scraps from
the Courts Items from Police
and Firemen.
THAT INVESTIGATION.
NoVery Serious Developments Mao
BEFORE the Grand jury.

NoVerv Serious Developments Maue
Refore the Grand jury.
The grand jury on yesterday took up the
investigation of the charges made by the
Pioneer Press last Sunday against prom
inent and respectable public officials and
citizens in which, among other things, IL was
claimed that the report OF the comptroller had
been suppressed for political purposes and
i'm order to conceal alleged extravaganza anu
corrupt expenditures i'll the city govern
ment.
1t is understood, of course, that the pro
ceedings of the grand jury are mvariaply
conducted in secrecy, but enough mas Deeii
learned on which to predicate the SuDlolned
information. A large number OF prominent
citizens were subp9ned, including all thoSe
whose names were mentioned in the article
sliude TO. and the editors of the Pioneer
Press were asked for the identity of their
informer and while refusing to impart this
information, it is understood that he was
AMONG THOSE WHO TESTIFIED.
The witnesses were G. Mccarthy,
James King, Thomas Howard, William P.
Murray, P. n. Kelly and Mayor O'Brien
Without going into the details OF the
investigation, it may be stated that
the inquiry was directed to ascertaining II
such a meeting as designated in the article
had been held, and if so whether or not
it was attended by the citizens
named in the article. No witness
affirmed that any such meeting as
alleged had ever taken place, while all
those who were represented as being pres
ent positively denied it. 1t was shown
that at about the time designated Mr..
Murray. chairman of the convention, had
called a meeting for the purpose OF
ANNOUNCING HIS COMMITTEES
and with the view of talking over the con-
duct of the campaign. 1t was also shown
that subsequently meetings had been held
by both the city and executive committees
at the Merchants hotel and in the Union
block, but that at no time had any such
proceedings as alleged taken place.
Questions were asked concerning the con-
duet of the Democratic campaign, as to
whether there had been any bribery, or col
lection of money from disreputable persons,
which were answered in the negative.
OTHER INQUIRIES
having a direct bearing on the criminal
charges were made, and the charges of sup
pressing the comptrOller's report the de-
faulting of contractors bonds and reckless
expenditures were taken up and lnyest-
gated at length, and found baseless.
The inquiries even took so wide ground
as to cover the alleged irregularities in the
city engineers office, of which also nobody
knew anything.
Incidentally to the above, no testimony
was adduced going to show that any OF the
witnesses possessed any knowledge what
ever of the charges made in the article,
while on the other hand everything went to
demonstrate their utter falsity.