Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-12-19
CULVER'S MISTAKE.
1t Was a Call on Wrathy State
Prosecutor.
THE CRONIN CASE JUROR BERATED.

Longenecker Jumps on Him with Both
Feet, as Ii Were, and Refuses To He APP
pensed-The MercifuI Evanston Man
Charged with Coquetting with the
Truth and an Accompanying Friend
"Choked or Very PeremptoriIy.
CHICAGO, Dec. l9-John Culver, the Juror
whose vote the papers here insist saved
Coughlin, Bourk and OSullivan from the
gallows, is having "a hard time, il reports
are TO be relied upon The latest is as fol-
lows, and is published in all the papers:
Juror Culver called upon States Attorney
Longenecker yesterday forenoon He was
accompanied by s. A Kean, who conducts
bank on Washington street. Mr. Culver
was in mood for explanations He evil
IDENTIFY wanted to justify his extraordinary
course in the jury-room. When he was ush-
cred into Judge Longenecker's private Office
he stepped forward with alacrity and, hold
ing out both hands, greeted the states attor-
ney as his dear brother, Joel" A freezing
frown and contemptuous movement of the
hands was the only return to the satutation
Lonseneeker In Bad Humor.
u came in, Brother JOEL" Culver began,
in pleading voice, when he was inter-
aNPNNN bS uh cpm1ndnu 10 nOlu us
tongue.
Don't you call me brother anv more ~ said
Judge Longenecker, agrily. The little pros
ecutors eyes were swapping his hands were
chnched, and there was aggressivenesS in his
voice that indicated anything but compla-
cency, He was angry at the sight of the
man who, after having told him before a
court room full of people that he believed in
ms tLongeneckers honesty, had retired to
the jury room and voted the other way
And Declines To lie Appeased.
But, Brother Joel, Culver demonstrated
He got no further. The angry prosecutor,
with his hat tilted back on his head his ewes
flashing, and his voice husky, advanced from
his desk and exclaimed:
Don't brother me, Culver; Tn no brother
of yours
But Culver began, when he was again
interrupted by perfect storm
"There's no but about it." Longenecker
exclaimed. culver, l don't pretend to say
that your motive in voting as YOU did was
anything but honorable, but do not care to
talk with you You have simply made a
mistake in coming here. You told me, Gull
yer, when l appealed to you personally, as
an old friend, and your answer is in the
record of this case, that you did not believe
the charge of conspiracy Forrest made
against me and my associates was true
Now, why did you say thati You did not
believe what you were saying was true.
He Rolls Up His Sleeves.
you talked about the case all the time.
even before Forrest made his speech, as if
you thought was at the head of a conspir-
acy To take the lives OF four human beings.
| tell you, Culver" the prosecutor continued,
as he laid aside his hat and rolled up his
sleeves, you have made mistake in coming
to See me. You told your companions in one
breath that Martensen's identification of
Bourk WIS incomplete and in the next that
you believed IN me You said the Carlsons,
who had less at stake than anybody. were
perjurers, and you meanly, because you were
protected by the sacredness of the jury room,
tried TO cast reflections upon the character
and honor of rs pure and chaste a woman as
ever lived need not mention her name TO
You Nou-but am forgetting myself"
Culver Gets on Safely.
culver started nervously ana began re-
treating toward the door. Kean, his com
panion, spoke TO Judge Longenecker in a
mild voice as If 10 check his How of anger.
and for reply he received n peremptory
command 10 hold his peace. as he had moth
ing whatever 10 do with the matter under
consideration. The interview lasted les
than hNe minutes altogether, but il is not
likely that Culver will ever forget it il he
lives 10 lie as old as Methuselah
Banker Kean Talks.
Mr.. kean reticent about the inter
view, but admitted that Judge Longenecker
did most Of the talking. Il called at the
states attorneys office at Mr.. Culver's re-
quest" he said ave came 10 the city on
the same train, and a. We walked along the
street he asked me 10 stop at Judge Longe-
neckers Office with him | will only saw
that have known Culver for twenty years
and have always believed him to be an
honest man / have not changed nv mind"
You We're present at the interview. = was
asked.
"Nts, hut You can hardly call it an inter-
view. Culver may have been-at any rate,
and whatever lac has done, still believe he
is an honest man