The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-18

Joint Bill Returned Against the Conspirators
-Stoltenberg Released from Custody.

CHICAGO, Oct 1.-THE greatest excite
ment prevailed about the grand jury room
this morning. Witnesses came and went,
and officers were dispatched here and there
at the will of Mr.. Longenecker. who took
up his station next to Clerk Hamilton. and
directed proceedings. 1t was evident, from
all that transpired, that the consideration
of great move was in progress. The
eleven witnesses taken before the grand
jury were those whose testimony could af-
ford q knowledge of the movements Of but
one person, and from other equally signifi-
cant facts it was generally known that the
investigation related to an individual
whose name has been frequently spoken OF
in connection with the Cronin case. The
first witness brought before the jury was a
man named Kelly. He is the mysterious
person who accompanied Chief Hubbard
to the States attorneys Office last evening,
About half an hour later, Henry N. Stolten-
berg, stenographer in Windes d SullivaD's
Office, was taken up stairs In charge or an
officer, and. for some time. he was detained
before the grand jury. jerry ODonnell,
one of the men now under indictment in
the -bribing affair, was also brought
before the grand jury, but what he said, OK
whether he said anything, is not known;
jury worked on the 'jury-fixingr branch of
the Cronin case in a somewhat desultory
fashion. Whenever a witness in the case
was brought in all other business was drop
ped, and his testimony occupied the atten-
tion of the body.
st / o'clock the grand jury came into
court and handed mp twelve indictments:
eleven of which were for every lay"
crimes. the Twelfth was q joint bill against
Mark L. Solomon, John Graham, Thomas
a
nell, Alexander L. Hanks. and Joseph
Kone. All of these men were already under
indictment for conspiracy to bribe jurymen
in the Cronin case. This completed the
nesses before the jury during the forenoon
was lawyer +. J. McArdle, who has an
office in the same building as thatof Windes
g. Sullivan.
At an early hour this morning Thomas
Windes, the law partner of Alex. Sullivan.
haunted the corridors of the Criminal Court
Building. AS he left the room he asked Mr.
Longenecker for an order to see StOlten-
berg. The States attorney wrote some
thing OH card, and the attorney went
straight to Mr.. Longenecker's Office. where
policeman Hutchinson challenged him and
inquired his business.
II want to see Stoltenberg." said Mr..
Windes:
Ws oqns see him. DspsS Se,a the
yelled the policeman as Mr.: Windes started
toward the private office Mr. Longeneck-
er wherein Stoltenburg was confined; but
Mr.. Windes kept right on, and was about to
open the door when Captain Schuettler's
man grabbed him by the coat collar In the
twinkling of an eye Alex. Sullivan's part
ner was landed outside the Office in very
undignified manner. In a short time Mr..
Windes returned with an application for a
writ of habeas corpus, asking for Stolten-
berg's release from custody. The matter
was set for hearing at O'clock. In the
meantime, however, without Mr.. Windes's
knowledge, Stoltenberg had been released,
and when this became known the applica-
tiOn was withdrawn.
Stoltenberg refused to answer any ques-
tions put to him before the grand jury until
he could see an attorney. He declared he
was unlawfully restrained of his liberty.
and that he could give no testimony under
duress.
O'Donnell and Konen were arrested late
this evening, and spent the night in Jail.
No new jurors were obtained to-day in
the Cronin trial Four places yet remain
to be filled. The defense still has eight
peremptOry challenges and the State thirty
three