St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-20
MORE INVESTIGATION
By the Grand Jury Into Re-
tpenehment and Reform
Methods.
The Employing Printers Will
Refuse a Reduction
of Time.
The Peoples Reform Club
Takes on Tangible
Shape.
The Lawn Fete and Promen-
ade Concert at Col. Kings
Residence.

In the way of crime, investigation of
criminal charges and trials Of criminal
cases, Minneapolis is just now well to
the front. No sooner has McGowan's
trial on charge of agreeing to take
brlbe been settled, than the criminal
court clears its room for action and pre-
pares for more trials of scarcely less
magnitude. Aid. Brueshaber's case
will certainly be continued over the
term. City Clerk Haney's has already
been put upon the fall calendar. There
is no chance for any more Doodle trials
at this term OF court unless the grand
jury, which meets to-day, should put its
inQuisititOrial nose deep down into some
of the doings of the council and unearth
a Doodle case of some magnitude.
And right here is where the man OF a
speculative turn of mind ''gets in his
graft" When the official acts of the
Minneapolis aldermen were undergoing
careful scrutiny at the hands. or
rather the eyes, of the grand jury last
April, there were good many, at least
it seemed so, matters into which the
grand jury did not go quite so deeply as
it wished. 1t was said, when it adj
journed to meet again to-day, that its
next meeting would be fraught with
much discomfort for various city Off
cials. 1t was given out with an
air of authority at that time
that there were several aldermanlc
cognomens considered in the inquisition
chamber which would come up for fur
Their consideration at the next meeting.
The jurors, it was said, were DESTROYS OF
Ill ~ aft
more time for the collection of evidence,
so that the indictments, should any be
found, might be based upon something
substantial. 1t need be no surprise to
the public should there be few more
true bills found against men bearing
official titles.
Anderson & Douglass, who were sum-
moned to appear before the grand jury
last month, and who were conveniently
out of the city when they were wanted.
will, 1t is said be given an opportunity
to go before that body now and tell
what they know about boodling in the
council. The defeat of the Anderson &
Douglass street railway ordinance in
the city council has always been asso-
ciated in the public mind with the word
doodle" Just what there is in public
opinion, whether it Is an infallible test
or otherwise, will probably be demon
strated to the satisfaction of every one.
But the city council does not furnish
all the raw material which is afterward
worked up by the grand jury as basis
for criminal prosecution. There are
three persons awaiting the action of the
grand jury who do so because they
were too handy with firearms. One of
the most interesting cases is that OF
Emma Schmidt. who shot Morris Dur
nam, alleging that he had seduced her.
Durham is alleged to have SAID that he
will push the prosecution of the girl if
he has to be carried before the grand
jury. Nevertheless, it is extremely
doubtful If she be indicted. A trial
would be a waste OF the cOunty's money,
as it would be scarcely possible to find
jury that would convict her even II
an Indictment were found. In the case
of George r. Buchan, too, there is a
strong element of the doubtful IN any
attempt to indict him. His trial would
also entail an almost use eSs eXpendi-
ture of money, as it is extremely i'm
probable that be could be even con-
victed on charge of assault. Then there
is Tom Gallagher, who shot William Cain
while trying to put bullet through an
other man, awaiting the action of the
grand jury. There are several more
men confined in the Jail on charges of
larceny, one for forgery, one for selling
mortgaged property and one for arson.
Then there is an argument almost
certain to come up on Haney's case.
His attorney will demur to the indict-
ment on the ground that it is bad, be-
cause it charges Mr.. Haney with being
middle-man in Doodle scheme.
Besides the ones mentioned above,
there~-was but one really important
criminal case on the calendar. That
was the case of The State against Isa-
dore Monasch, and that was yesterday
continued over the tenn.