Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-18
SEVEN INDICTMENTS FOUND.
A Joint Bill Issued Against Batch
OF Cronin Conspirators.
sToLTeNeERe WOULDN'T TELL
The stenographer Refuses to Open
His Mouth Before the Grand
Jury-Beggs Denounces
the Newspapers.
Everything On the oui vive.

CHICAGO, Oct l1.-Great excitement pre-
vailed about the grand jury room this morn
ing.
Witnesses came ana went aud officers
were dispatched here and there rapidly, aud
appearances indicated that something i'm.
portant was in progress
The first witness was man named Kelly,
When he came out he refused to talk to the
reporters Henry Stoltenberg, stenogra-
pher in Windes & Sulivan's office, was in
for half an hour and when he came out
he rushed off in great hurry to find Mr..
Windes. After he had disappeared that gen
tleman made his way into the court house
and was examined by the grand jnry. When
he came out of the room he said to the re-
porters that he hadn't told the grand jury
much because he didn't know anything they
wished to hear. He had come in the interest
of Stoltenberg.
At 1 o'clock the grand fury came
into court and handed in twelve
on Jail cases, and the twelfth was a Joint
bill against Mark Solomon, John Graham,
Thomas Kavanagh Fred Smith, jeremiah
O'Donnell, Alexander l.. Hanks and Joseph
II. Konen. All these men were already
under indictment for conspiracy to bribe
iurymen.
After Mr.. Windes left the grand jury room
he asked States Attorney Longepecker for
an order to sec Stoltenberg. The states
attorney wrote something on q card and MIR.
Winues went to his Office. where the police
man on guard refused to let him in. The
attorney went away, but returned with an
application for a writ of habeas corpus ask
ing for Stoltenberg's release. The matter
was SET for hearing at p m, but as in the
meantime Stotenberg had been released,
the application was withdrawn.
StolteCberg refused to answer any ques-
tions put to him before the grand jury until
he could SEQ an attorney. He declared he
was unlawfully restrained of his liberty and
that he could give no testimony under du-
ress.
No Jurors were obtained to-day in the
Cronin trial. Four places remain yet to be
filed. The defense still have eight peremp-
tory challenges and the state thirty-three.
For the first time since his arrest on the
charge of conspiracy to murder DR.. Cronin,
Attorney John +. Beggs, senior guardian of
Camp 20, Clan a-Gael, to-day consented to
an interview by representative of the press.
at is reported, Mr.. Beggs, that you have
confessed and Will be a witness for the state.
Is that true?n he was asked.
NO." Indignantly reported the senior
guardian, there is no more truth in that
story than there has been in any of the other
stories published about me. 1t was all a
fake But what Is the use of denying these
stories! The papers treat us as if we were
outlaws. l can merely say that should hate
to be in q position whereby | would be en-
dUlcu W lldhc u SuuGul Hill HOb guilty.,
have no guilty knowledge and therefore can
not confess to anything in connection with
the crime which am charged with"
According to the Daily News the omnibus
indictment returned this afternoon was a
useless proceeding, except on the theory that
the persons against whom it was brought,
all of whom were already under Indictment
have been made subject to some new charge.
The states attorney has declined
to allow the new Indictment
| to be seen, and this is taken as an indication
| that a new charge has been made against the
alleged jury fXers. 1t is suggested that the
accused are to be put in the same boat as the
Cronin suspects, as accessories after the
fact All the persons reindicted were again
arrested, except Bailiff Salomon, who, 1t Is
supposed, will confess. Graham secured
bail, but the others were kept in contine-
nlent
The News explains the proceedings regard
| ing Stoltenberg by stating that Otto Ericsson
and William Dahl had informed the states
attorney of mysterious correspondence
which Stoltenberg had conducted in July
through Dahl Letters had been received
for Stotenberg from Toronto enclosed in en-
velopes mailed for Dahl. The efforts last
night in the states attorneys office to make
Stotenberg disclose what he knew about the
letters proved fruitless.