Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1889-12-26
WASN'T A BROTHER. ;
JUDGE LoNGENECKER AND JUROR
CULVER MEET.

Spicy Interview Between the Prosecutor
and the CrODin Juror Who Held Out So
Long for Acquittal-An Investigation to
he Made in the Matter.
A Chicago dispatch reports that a few
days after the close of the Cronin trial
Juror John Culver, in company with S. A.
Kean, the banker, went to the Office Of
States Attorney Longenecker smiling like
a man who had conscientlousIy done his
duty. When he came out he had lost his
smile
Stato's Attorney Longenecker declined
to be interviewed on the subject OF what
passed between him and his visi-
tors. He admitted, however, that
it wasn't very cordial inter-
view. To Mr.. Culver's ''Good-morning,
Brother Longenecker the States attor-
ney replied. "Don't brother me. am
no brother of yours" Mr.. CulAer tried
to say something that would break the
force of this repulse, but Mr.. Longenecker,
it is said, followed it up by saying: "You
are either crazy or corrupt, and 1 don't
believe you are crazy"
Then turning to Mr.. Kean in half ex-
planatory way he told that gentleman
that Mr.. Culver's actions in the jury. room
Deou o6uCblJ III AlHo WIN
the directions laid down in the
letter found in Juror Dix's pocket.
That letter, 1T seems, had directed Juror
Dix as the return he should make for the
81 900 promised him to insist on an ac-
qui ttal for all The defendants; to insist on
an acquittal of Beggs; then to urge a
term not exceeding fourteen years for
Burke, Coughlin, and O'Sullivan, and as
a last resort to save their necks About
Kunze nothing was said. and as to the
evidence against Kunze or what should
be done with him Culver had never a word
TO say during the whole of the delibera-
tions of the jury.
MIR. Longenecker. who was thoroughly
we'll informed on what had passed IN the
jury room, detailed for Mr.. Culver's BEN
eft his actions during the seventy hours
the jury was out with a minuteness and
clrcumstantiality that seemed to surprise
the twelfth juror. And when he compared
it with the policy outlined in the letter to
Juror Dix, Mr.. Kean could only say he
wasn't fully informed on the subject and
could say nothing.
Mr.. Culver made no explanation or
attempted none except to reiterate that
he had acted conscientiously; that he ex-
pected to live here and was ready to
stand any investigation the States attor-
ney desired to make. The interview was
not long one, the States attorney cut
ting 1t short by opening the outer door Of
his Office in so inviting a way that Mr.. Gull
YER and Mr.. Kean saw the point and left.
The question of what influences worked
in the breast Of the juror who stood out
so long for acquittal will not be allowed
to rest with its present uncertain answer
States Attorney Longenecker has put n
force of detectives at work on the matter.
He has placed in their hands number of
papers, among others an affidavit he had
secured from a source he would not dis
close, besides all the information relative
to the occurrences in the jury room.
The letter found by Juror Dix
In his overcoat pocket shows how de-
termined somebody was to bribe juror.
1t has been a puzZlo to find out how
that letter could have been placed there
and no one detected in doing it, 1t is
quite possible it may have been placed
there 10y some agent of the jury -bribers
who was summoned as juror and thus
got into the Jury box, perhaps even was
held over one night before being thal-
lenged. That Juror Culver is under sus-
picion there can be no doubt. The State s
Attorney shows it in his every action.
That anything will come OF the investiga-
tion is another question. All the other
jurors tell in such circumstantiality the
queer doings of their fellow-member that
most serious charges are laid at his door
as result