The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-13
THE MAN WHO GAVE IL AWAY.

in this city, was examined and excused for
cause" 1t is understood, though
not ated by Attorney Mills. that the
name of the venireman who it was at
tempted to bribe is George Taohappat. He
is foreman for B. V. Page & Co., oil mer-
chants, Nos. A to 81 Erie street. "On
Thursday afternoon said Mr.. Mills, "a
very prominent citizen of Chicago entered
the court room and very privately
communicated to tie counsel for the
state that his foreman, the venireman
in question, before being called to the jury
box, had been approached oy balliff of
the court with an offer of 81 200 to vote for
the acquittal of the defendants. He said:
TINS is not cock-and-bull story, and l
bring it before you in the interest of public
Justice
THE STORY INVESTIGATED.
HE then went away, and the next morn
ing one of the counsel for the state went
down to the factory of the man whose fore
man had bsen offered the bribe, and the
moment he saw tle foreman ne recogniz ID
him as man whose honesty and independ-
ence had impressed itself upon the counsel
for the state while he was sitting in the
jury-box. The man made full statement.
and was requested by the counsel for the
state to come to the states attorneys office
and repeat his statement in full. The man,
with tears in his eyes, said: at involves a
friend, but if it involved myself l would
uphold the law and honor"
GIsT OF HIS STATEMENT.
The gist of his statement to the counsel,
which he subsequently gave in detail to the
states attorney is as follows: In obedience
to summons, he came to the court house
Tuesday afternoon, sat in the ante-room, but
was not called. He came again Wednes-
day morning, and stayed in the ante-room
again, and about 1920 o'clock man came
from the court into the ante
room who was an old friend
of the venireman. The fact also
appears that the wives of the two men were
friends before they were married. The
man who came from the court room to the
venireman suggested that they go out and
have a cigar, and the two men went to
neighboring place, and after having a cigar
the man from the court room said to the
venlreman: DO you want to make some
money
HOW 1T WAS TO BE DONE.
"The venireman innocently answered,
Certainly 1 do Very well. you get on
the jury and stick for an acquittal and you
will have $1,000. A contract and arrange
ment can be ca ried out with your wife. It
can be arranged that she shall wear GER
tain colored dress if the money is paid to
her on a certain day. If the money is not
paid to her on that certain day she is to
wear different colored dress, and the con-
tract is to be off.
NOT THAT KIND OF A MAN
The venireman turned reproachfully to
his friend and said: 81 am not that kind of
a man." whereupon the bailiff replied:
II am working for the court" :"
At the noon adjournment the ve-
nireman went back to his place
of business, and subsequently, returned to
the court house at 2 O'clock, after which
he was detained and called to the jury
box, where he remained until 4:30
o'clock, when he was excused for
cause. He left the court house intending
to return to his place of business, and on
leaving the court house met on the steps
leading to the sidewalk the man who had
attempted to bribe him. The man turned
to him and said where were you
this noon? [ looked everywhere for
YOU" he added; 1--WE will make it $5,0OO.n
1t was too late, however, for the venire-
man had been excused for cause, but he at
once returned to his place of usiness, after
having again reproached the man for put
ting such a low estimate upon him, aud re-
ported to his employer, prominent citizen,
what had takel place, who the following
day reported it to the prosecution.
THE STATES ATTORNEY INFORMED.
Pursuant to appointment the venireman
attended a meeting at the states attorneys
office, and, having made full statement
of everything that took place, was requested
to step into an ante-room, and the bailiff
was summoned. He proved to be one of
the bailiffs of the criminal court, who, dur
ing the trial or attempt to procure Jury.
has been in charge of one of the five pris-
oners-Coughlin. The bailiff professed his
profound ignora ce until the venireman
was called from the ante-room,
when he made1a complete confession,
in which he implicated several
prominent persons, and also another bailiff.
The attorneys for the prosecution, together
with Chief Hubbard and others, at once
went to work on the case, and have dis
closed one of the most deliberate attempts
to corrup5 jury and to defeat the law
which has yet come to public attention.
"We have had confessions this very
day." said Mr. Mills, "at subseuuent
interviews late this afternoon. These con-
fessions are from six to ten in number
They are absolute. giving us the whole
miserable conspiracy. They reveal a most
damnable organization against the law of
the land and a conspiracy against the juris-
prudence of this country that will startle the
continent when it is thoroughly known-a
conspiracy of ramifications and of audacitv: !:
a conspiracy involving men whose names
will be surprise to the country. 1t is no ex-
aggeration when l say that you cannot
magnify the damnable outrage of this CON
spiracy. In the taking off of DR.. Cronin
and the manner in which it was done the
whole world was startled. This second
conspiracy will alike startle the whole
world. 1t is an assault upon the very in
tegrity of our Institutions"
INDICTMENTS AGREED ON.
At o'clock tonight the grand jury had
agr eed to return indictments against Alex
ander J. Hanks, Mark Solomon, Fred w.
Smith, Jeremiah O'Donnell, Tom Kav-
anaugh and Joseph Kohn. Hanks has been
bailiff for eight or nine years.
He has always been regarded as
square man. Mark Solomon
was appointed bailif in May, 1888, from