Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-13

rage Of this conspiracy. In the taking off of
DIR. Cronin and the manner In which it was
done, the whole world was startled, This
second conspiracy will aliKo startle the
whole world. This is an assault on the very
integrity of our institutions"
A SPECIAL GRAND JURY.
Judge Horton has issued vcnire for q
special grand jury returnable at 1890
y. M, to investigate the attempts at
jury fixing in connection with tho Cronn
trial, and the jurors summoned are now as
sembling in the court room. Ex-Mayof
Roche is among the grand iurymen and will
be foreman of the body.
Judge Mcconnell convened his court at the
appointed time this afternoon to proceed
with the Croum trial, but Immediately ad-
iourned until Monday. He announced that
the states attorney had declared the case
could not proceed to-day without injury to
the public interests.
One of the morning papers prints seusa-
tional story about q stenographer formerly
employed by the states attorney. 1t is as
serted that at tho beginning of the Cronin
investigation this man was relieved from
duty because he was related to and affiliated
with certain people said to belong to the anti
Cronin party. The stenographer has since, it is
asserted, been leading a reckless life and is
now suddenly discovered to have disappeared
from the city. At the same time the states
attorney discovered that large portion of
the evidence and all of the depositions in tho
Cronin case had been distracted from his
office, hence the unusual excitement
yesterday. II is asserted that last
nights conference and examination
of mysterious witnesses was for the purpose
of retaking the dispositions. The story is
not corroborated, however, except as to the
particulars that the stenographer is missing.
The same paper prints an interview with
Assistant States Attorney Neeley, who says
that the disappearance Of the stenographer
had absolutely nothing to do with the matter
under consideration.
At IL o'clock this evening the grand jury
had agreed to return indict tments against
Alex II. Hanks, Mark Solomon, Fred W..
Smith, and Tom Cavanagh. Hanks
has been bailiff for eight or nine
years. Solomon was appointed baillf a
year and half ago. Smith IS unknown
about the court house and Tom Kavanagh
was an engineer at the county insane asylum
during the boodlers' regime and was mixed
up in their case. He IS now in business here,
and, strange to say, his partner was sum
moned for jury duty, but was peremptorily
challenged by the state when his con nection
with Kavanagh was learned.
The fifth Indictment was agreed upon
against jeremiah O'Donnell, who was re-
Gently appointed a gnager at South Chicago
At 10 e. m. it was reported that two addi-
tional indictments, seven in all, had been
made.
According to the statement by Lawyer
Mills, it was the bailiff Solomon who first
attempted to briDe the citizen who was
afterward to be summoned as juror. Solo,
mon is also the man whose confession was
obtained. Solomon turned over to the states
attorney list of the names and addresses
said to be prospective corrupt Jurors. Only
two of the list have yet been summoned and
neither has been examined. Solomon said
the list had been furnsht- = by Bailiff
Hanks while they We're seated in the court
room just behind the Cronin suspects whom
they were guarding. Hanks had said $4,000
would be given for fixed juror-half to the
man in the box and half to the bailiffs. Last
night, Mr.. MilPs narrative continued, the
men on the list were interviewed by the
chief of police. One man stated he had been
approached with an offer Of $4,000 to go on
the jury, by Fred w. Smith, a
hardware manufacturers agent. Another
citizen was also similarly approached by
citizen. O'Donnells part, as told by Mr..
Mills, was similar to that of Smiths. He
sounded at least one man, and offered him a
81, 600. O'Donnell, who was arrested early
the evening" is said to have confessed that
the person understood to have been Kava-
nagh guaranteed that the money offered
would be forthcoming. The supposed COR
rupt venremen were carefully instructed as
to their manner while being examined in
court, being told how they should answer
| and to be gruff with the lawyers for the de-
Tense. The official list of indictments given
| out about 80 contained six nam es-Hanks,
| Solomon, Smith, Kavauagh, O'Donnell and
| Joseph Kohn. The latter Is fruit dealer
who. it is said, was to 20 on the jury to get
| 81 900 from Hanks.
States Attorney Longnecker to-day EN-
| phatically denied the elaborate reports pub.
lished this morning that the records and ex.
| hbits in the C:osiin case had been stolen
| from his offics And that his former steno
| grapher. James Purcell, was the guilty man
| Mr. Longnecker said ii was an outrage tc
| drag Purcelrs name into such connection
and that the stories to that effect were fcti
| tious.