The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-13

disclosed one of the most deliberate at
tempts to corrupt a jury and defeat the Law
of illinois which has yet come to public at
tention.
I'VE have had confessions here this very
day. said Mills at a subsequent interview
this afternoon. "These confessions are
from six to ten in number. They are alb
solutely giving US the whole miserable con
spiracy They reveal most damnable or
ganization against the law of the
| land and conspiracy against
the Jurisprudence of the country
that will startle the continent when it is
| thoroughly known; a conspiracy of ramif-
cations, of audacity; a conspiracy involv-
! ing men whose names will be a surprise to
! the country. 1t is no exaggeration to say
that you cannot magnify the damnable out
rage of this conspiracy. In taking off DIR.
Cronin and the manner in which it was
done, the whole world was startled. This
second conspiracy will alike startle the
whole world. 1t is an assault on the very
| integrity of our institutions"
AT O'Clock this evening the grand jury
had agreed to return indictments against
Alexander J. Hanks Mark Solomon, Fred
w. Smith, Tom Kavanagh and Tom Sennot.
Hanks has been bailih for eight or nine
years; Solomon was appointed bailiff a
year and a half ago; Smith is an unknown
about the court house, and Tom Cavanagh
was an engineer at the county insane asy-
lum during the hoodlum regime and was
mixed up in their case, He is now in bust
ness here and, strange to say, his partner
was summoned for jury duty, but YVES per-
emptorily challenged by the state when his
connection with Kavanagh was learned.
A fifth indictment was agreed upon
against jeremiah O,Donuell, who was re-
Gently appointed a guager at South Chicago.
At 1920 it was reported that two addi-
tional indictments had been made.
According to the statement made by
Lawyer Mills it was Bailiff Solomon who
first attempted to bride a citizen, G. S.
Tacappat, who was afterward to be sum
moned as juror. Solomon also is the man
whose confession was obtained.
Solomon turned over to the states at
torney list of names and addresses said
to be prospective corrupted Jurors.
Only two of the list had yet been
summoned and neither was yet ex-
amined. Solomon said the list had
been furnished him by Bailiff Hanks
while seated in the court room just
behind the Cronin suspects whom they
were guarding. Hanks had said that
$1,000 would be given for fixed juror, half
to the man in the box and half to the bail
ifs. Last night, Mr.. Mills narrative con-
tinued, the men on test were interviewed
by the chief of police and man who
stated he had had an offer of s., 200 to go
on the jury by Fred w. Smith, hardware
manufacturers agent. Another citizen
was also similarly approached by O'Con-
nells. The part as told by Mr.. Mills
was similar to that of Smiths. He sounded
the last man and offered him 81, 900. O'Don-
nell, who had been arrested early in the
evening, is said to have confessed that the
person is understood to be Cavanagh who
guaranteed that the money offered would
be forthcoming. The supposed corrupted
veniremen were carefully il structed as to
their manner while being examined in
court, being told how they should answer
and to be gruff with the lawyer for the de-
Tense.
The official list Of in lictments given at
10 80 contained six names Solomon, Smith,
Cavanagh, O'Donnell and Joseph Kohn.
The latter is fruit dealer who, it is said,
was to go on the jury and get 800 from
Hanks.
1t was about midnight when the special
grand jury adjourned. Their report was
short and formal in character, accept that
the jurors believed the plot to be more
widespread than was indicated by the six
indictments returned. All the indicted
persons spent the night in the county jail.