The Indianapolis journal., 1888-01-07
LOOKING AFTER THE JURORS.
Scheme of the Coy Gang to Escape Conviction
at the Coming Trial.

Yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock the special
venire of forty names ordered by Judge Woods
were drawn by the clerk OF the federal court
and Juror Commissioner Wilson. The names
were taken from box containing those of 400
men, equally divided in political sentiment Out
of this vsnire will be selected the jury for trying
the tally-sheet cases. which are set for the 17th
inst The who will be sum
ars aensbd.r al pPse so5in.on H Wm
III. Montgomery, Quincy. Owen county;
Augustus Fl. Gariott, Little York: Chas. Viele.
Stair. Lafayette; James R. Curtis. Queensville,
Jennings county; James A. Alien, Rockville;
VIM. H. Beneger, North Landing. Ohio county;
Geo, W. Hand. Hnntertown; Robert Dunlap,
Madison; Gso. n. Freeman, Lafayette; James
Peters, Don Juan. Perry county: Jacob Car
biuer, Bremen; John T. Potter, Jeffersonville;
Wesley Cheatwood Gosport; Albert Messick,
Messick, Henry county; Frederick Berkey.
Salem, Washington county; Isaac a. Grim, Bed
ford; Simon Dickinson. Waterloo; John T.
Shredder, Rising Sun; 81. e. Harris, Boswell,
John H. Macke, Richmond; Jesse Brumberg.
Corunna; 2. Nj. Carr, Flint. Steuben county;
Robert Denton, Hymera, Sullivan county;
Linieer. Danville; Frederick w. Coe. Carters-
burg; Thomas Vankirk, Lagrange; James Hill,
Brooksburg, Jefferson county; Andrew Cook,
Clark county; James Noble, Holmesburg Cyrus
VanMutre, Mddetown, Henry county; Norman
Lutter, Haw Patch, Lagrange county; A. G.
Simpson, Vincennes: Dudley Smith, Dudley;
George M. Matthews, South Bend.
During the drawing, Henry N. Spaan and
Sim Coy, with the assistance or County Attorney
Spencer, took down tho names for their own
purposes they came out of the box. After
the work was completed they hurried away to
set OF foot scheme Of interference that is sup
posed to have done them some good on the first
trial. The political complexion of the venire
was the first object to be obtained by them, and
in securing this they went at once to writing
letters to prominent Democrats in each of the
localities named in the venire. They
trouble in this line than they
did with the venire drawn in July, as the pres
ent one, it is said, represents men far above che
average of those who are drawn for jury duty.
District Attorney Sellers, so far as he has been
able to learn anything concerning the men
named, says that any twelve OF them would
make a good jury. He thinks there is less dan
ger of partisan bias than there OF the
forty drawn the political affiliations of ten Of
eighteen Republicans and twelve Democrats 1t
is thought that the same proportion of three to
two will be maintained in the other ten.
Last night Coy and Spencer were In a room
at the Grand Hotel writing letters to leading
Democrats to ascertain all about the Repub-
licans and Democrats on the venre. After the
first trial Coy boasted that he knew the political
been drawn the venire He further said
that when the jury was impaneled he knew how
they would vote. His information, he
knowledged, was obtained by writing letters
and through other sources.
Judge Woods yesterday ordered Coy, Bern
hamer, Mattler and Spaan to appear on or before
Jan. IL to plead to the Indictment.