St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-21
NI,QCADE,S SENTENCE.

The New York ksOOdle Alderman
Must Spend seven Years in the
PeniteEIiary.
the McQuade drama seems to have even
more interest for the public than the scenes
of the trial. This morning Chambers street
and the approaches to the brown stone
court house of the general sessions were
thronged with hundreds Of people. Admis-
sion was free to all. and the large court
room in part two was densely packed. The
other ''bOOdlerS" were conspicuous by their
absence. McQuade was escorted into the
court room by Under Sheriff Sexton and
Order of Arrest Clerk Martin. There was
not the hal-feIlow appearance ABOUT
McQuade that characterized his appearance
on Friday. He took his old seat and very
quietly waited for the hour of his sentence.
At IL a. m. Recorder Smyth entered the
court room and took his seat on the bench.
With the memory of the Jaehne case. the
audience had the idea that there was no
hope for McQuade. and that he would at
once receive his sentence. The district at
torney. with his assistants and the counsel
for McQuade, came in together After
short conversation with Mr.. Newcombe,
the recorder raped on his desk for order.
MIR. Newcombe asked that the proceedings
of Friday be read. The request was granted.
After the reading,
GEN. TRACY SAID:
Sentence having BEEN moved. we move an
arrest of sentence because the Indictment
was on insufficient ground. and that the evil
dence was not sufficient to connect the de-
fendant with the crime charged; because of
the mischarge of the court to the jury; be-
cause certain jurors were illegally xcluded
from the box; because the trial was sus-
pended Dec. II. for the bringing of Nesbitt
and Vickerman, who signed certain afidavits
before and in the presence of the jury as set
down in the affidavits of the defense served
on the district attOrn ey Friday. We also
move that the verdict be set aside on the
grounds set down in this affidavit, the court
admitted improper evidence against the de-
fendant and excl uded other proper evidence
iu his favor.
Gen. Tracy also moved that the officers
who had charge of the jury during the trial
be called and sworn. This was on the
strength of statements made to them by a
Mr.. O'Brien to the effect that on Dec Is,
the jurymen were taken to the AstOr house
to lunch by an unusual route past the Office
of the New York World, in front of which
was displayed a bulletin, reading: Has
traitor crept in? Juror Rosen berg charged
with being friend of the boodlers." Mr..
MARITIME, in reply, read an affidavit of Juror
Rosenberg. denying that he had been in
fluenced in any way in favor or against
the defendant by outside influence, but
that he
ACTED ON THE EVIDENCE
alone. The affidavit also stated that he was
not aware that there had been any charge
made against him until after the jury had
brought in its verdict. He saw Nesbitt and
Vickerman in court, but did not even sus-
pect that the papers they signed had any
reference to him and there was no talk re-
garding it among the jurymen. Recorder
Smythe said he thought it was his duty to
take more than usual caution in all the de-
tails of this case. The officers were picked.
q respectable hotel selected for the accom-
mediation of the jury, the jurors were con-
scientiously warned on each occasion of
their leaving the court room. The recorder
also took scebial pains to caution the jurors
chat they would not be allowed to receive
letters or calls from any one, not even
members of their families. In fact, special
caution had been used, and the court was
satisfied that the interests of the prisoner
had been carefully guarded. In the matter
Of tie affdavitS of Vickerman and Nesbitt.
the recorder said that was an action which
the district attorney had a right to take
The case of Jaehne was cited regarding the
forms of the indictment. the court declaring
that the McQuade Indictment was like it.
and sustained by the general term and court
of appeals. The motion for a new trial
was denied, Gen. Tracy taking an excep-
tion. McQuade was ordered to stand up.
and did so with his hands in his pantaloons'
pockets.
The Defense" remarked Gen. Tracy,
''has nothing to say why science should
not be passed upon him. We rely on his
former good character. and the esteem in
which he is held by his neighbors and
acluaintances, wno are many of them here
pOY, to ask for the leniency of the court -
THE SENTENCE.
The recorder said in substance:
Arthur ]. McQuade. you have been fairly
and justly convicted of bribery. You were
elected TO perform public duty and public
trust. Instead OF doing you violated that
trust. Your character as q business man,
citizen, father, husband, is good. I have
sympathy for your family. You should have
considered them before you did wrong. You
did not add 10 the crime of which you have
been convicted what Jaehne did by taking
the stand and committing perjury. I have
reason to believe that you received as much
money as Duffy did-SIu.000. That money is
not yours: 1t is not the property of your
family If it is left with them it win work the
inevitable result of ill-gotten gain. I would
aevise you to give up and pay back to the
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