St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-13

audacity, conspiracy Involving men
whose names will be surprise to the
country. 1t is no eXaggeratiOn when
say that you cannot magnify the damn
able outrage of this conspiracy. In the
taking off of DR.. CrOnin, and the man
ner in which it was done, the whole
world was startled. This second con-
spiracy will alike startle the whole
world. 1t is an assault on the very in
tegrity of our Institutions" A. L.:
Hanks and Mark Solomon, criminal
with packing the Cronin jury. The
first suspicion of this fact was the fail
ure of the men to report for duty this
morning. Then it was learned that
they were in State Attorney Long
enecker's yesterday, and had not been
seen since. Their absence is due to
the fact that they were taken to North
Side hotel by several detectives, and
have been kept their in close surveil-
lance. The two men have been dlScoV-
cred in an
ATTEMPT TO BRIBE vENIREMEN
summoned to Judge McConnelPS court
and instruct those favorable to the
prisoner how to answer the questions
of the states attorney in order to be re-
tanned as jurors. The bailiffS in custody
hOtO nOI ol any UNIV OSNAA
summoning jurors for the trial. and it
was not known that they had any con-
nectiOn with the defense. Neither is
an IriShman, but that they have been
acting as agents of the defendants, is
also most certain. The special grand
jury summoned by Judge. Horton to
investigate the attempt at jury fixing,
after being in session short time,
summoned seven witnesses, and among
the seven were two venlremen who had
been possible Cronin jurors, though not
yet examined in court. II is reported
that these two men had been ap-
preached among others by the two
bailitfs now under arrest. The
as guards to the Cronin suspects, sit
ting directly behind the prisoners every
day in court since the beginning OF the
trial. At q O'Clock the grand jury had
AGREED TO RETURN INDICTMENTS
against Alexander j. Hanks, Mark Solo
mon. Fred w. Smith. and Tom
Kavanagh but up to 7:3O O'Clock
no formal Indictment had been pre-
pared. Hanks has been baillff for
eight or nine years, having been ap-
pointed in Sheriff Matson's time. He has
always been regarded as square man.
Mark Solomon was apprinted ba1llft IN
May. 1888, from the Tenth ward. Little
is known about him. Fred w. Smith is
unkno wn around the court house. Tom
Kavanagh was engineer at the insane
asylum during the ''Boodlers" regime,
and was mixed up in that transaction.
He is now in business on Franklin
street. and strange to say. his partner
was summoned as a juror. When the
examination of the states attorney re-
vealed his connection with Kavanagh.
he was peremptorily challenged.
A fifth indictment was agreed upon
against jeremiah O'Donnell, who was
recently appointed gauger at South
Chicago. At 10-p. m. it was reported
that two additional indictments, seven
in all, had been made. States Attorney
Longenecker to-day emphatically denied
the elaborate reports published this
morning that records and exhibits in
the Cronin case had been stolen from
his office, and that his former stenog-
rapher, James Purcell. was the guilty
man. Mr.. Longenecker said it was an
outrage to drag PurcelPS name into
such connection, and that the stories
of theft were fiction.
A ccOrding to a statement by Lawyer
Mills, it was the bailiff. Solomon, who
first attempted to bribe citizen
tTschappat) who was afterward to be
summoned as juror. SalOmon also is
the man whose confession was obtained.
Solomon turned over to the states at
tOrney list of names and addresses
said to be
PROSPECTIVE CORRUPT JURORS.
Only two of the list had yet been
summoned and neither was yet exam
ined. Solomon said the list had been
furnished to him by Bailiff Hanks while
they were seated In the court room just
behind the Cronin suspects whom they
were guarding. Hanks had said $4,000
would be given for a fixed jurOr-half
to the man in the box and half to
the bailiffs. Last night, Mr.. Mills
narrative continued, the men
by the chief of police. One
man stated that he had been approached
with an offer of $4,000 to go on the jury
by Fred w. Smith, hardware manu-
facturer's agent. Another citizen was
also similarly approached by Smith.
O'Donnell's part, as told by Mr.. Mills,
was similar to that of Smiths. He
sounded at least one man and offered
him 81 1000. O'Donnell, who was ar
rested early in the evening, Is said to
have confessed that person, under
stood to be kavanagh, guaranteed that
the money offered would be fOrthcOm-
ing. The supposed corrupted venire
men were carefully Instructed as to
their manner while being examined In
court, being told how they should an
swer and to be gruff with the lawyers
for the defense. The official list of in
dictments given out at 10:30 p. m. con-
tened six names-Hanks, Solomon,
Smith, Kavanagh, O'DOnnell and Joseph
Kohn. The latter is fruit dealer, who,
1t is said. was to go on the jury and get
81, 900 from Hanks.
1t was about midnight when the spe-
cial grand jury adjourned. Their re-
port was short and formal in character,
except for an intimation that the Jurors
believed that the plot to be more wide
spread than was indicated by the six in
dictments returned. All the indicted
persons spent the night in the county
Jail.