Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
TWELVE NDICThENTS.
The Special Jury in the Bribery
Case Finds Twelve
Bills.
A Joint Bill Found Against
Seven of the Supposed
Bribers.

CHICAGO, October 17.-Great excitemen
prevailed about the grand Jury room thi
morning. Witnesses came and went ant
officers were despatched here and Their
rapidly and the appearances indicate that
somethins Important was in progress.
The first witness was man named Kelly
When he came oas he rsiuse.i to talk e
feporSsRs. Henry Stoltsnhess, ,sfsnosraphsi
In Wihass 3 Suilivan's oflcs, was 10 10,
hall an hour, and when he came out he
rushed OF in great hurry to find Mr..
Wipdes. After he had disappeared that
gentleman made his way into the court
house and was examined by the grand jury.
When he came out OF the room he said
to the reporters he hadn't told
the grand jury much, chiefly because he
didn't know anything they wished to hear.
He had come around in the interest Of
Stoltenberg.
As one O'Clock the grand jury came into
court and handed in twelve indictments,
eleven Of which were on jail cases and the
twelfth joint bill against Mark Solomon,
John Graham, Thomas Kavanagh, Fred
Smith, Jeremiah 0'Donnell. Alexander L.
Hanks and Joseph keenan,. All these mon
were already under indictment for conspir.
acy to bribe jurymen. ~ H.
After Mr.. Windes left the Jury room he
asked States Attorney Longsnecker for an
order to sec 6toltsnbers. The states at
t0rney wrote something on q card, and
Mr.. Wendes went to his Office, where
the policeman on guard refused
to let him in. The attorney went away
but returned shortly Nth an application
for writ OF hebeas corpus. asking for
Stoltenberg's release. The matter was set
for hearing at 8 O'Clock, but as in the
meantime Stoltenberg had been released
the application was withdrawn.
Stoltenberg refused to answer any ques-
ton put to him before the grand jury,
until be could see an attorney. He de.
clared that he Was unlawiully restrained of
his liberty and that he could give NO testi.
mony while under duress.
No new jurors we're obtained to-day in
the Cronin trial and four places remain
yet to be filed, The defense still has eight
challenges and the state thirty. |
three.
According to the Daily News the omnibus
returned this afternoon was an
useless proceeding except on the tn ory
that the persons against ~hom it was
brought, all Of whom we're already under
have been made subject to
some new charge. The state's attorney is |
declining to have all the new in. |
being seen, and this is taken by |
the News 40 an indication that new charges |
have been made against the alleged jury |
fixers. It is suggested that the accused be |
put in the Same boat with the Cronin aus.
pests ~ accessories. All the persons re- |
indicted were again arrested except Bailiff |!
others were kept in confinement.
The News explains the proceedings re- |
sarding Stoltenberg by stating that Otto
Erickson and William Dahl had informed
The states attorney OF q mysterious cores
pondence which Stoltenberg had conducted
IN July through Dahl. Letters had been re-
ceived for Stoltenberg from Toronto in
closed in an envelope mailed for Dahl.
Efforts last night in the sta tt q attorneys |
office to make Stoltenberg discl ose what he /
knew about the letters proved iruitless.