, 1891-05-06
JURY BRIBERS INDICTED
Exhaustive Report of the New
Orleans Grand Jury
On Its Investigation Into the
Italian Case.
Detective 0'Malley and Five
Others Indicted.
No Bills Found Against Any of
the Lynchers.

NEW ORLEANS, May after six
weeks investigation the grand jury com
pleted it5 lahors in the Italian case this
afternoon and presented a vOlumInous re-
port to Judge Mari. The report recites
the killiug OF Chief Hennessy, the trial of
the Italians, etc, and, alter referring to
the verdict, says: We cannot be mis-.
taken in the assertion that the verdict was
startling and auazing.a bitter disappoint-
ment, shocking to public opinion, pro-
voking the repeated accusation that some
of the jury had been u~nfaithiul to their
Office. The report goes on at considera
bic length to speak ofthe made
on every side before the termination of
the trial touching the action of some
members of the jury; remarks dropped in
and about the court room; the quarrel in
the jury room, etc. Careful observers, +"
it says. testify with special reference to
the marked inattention of the Jury to wit
nesses who submitted their evidence
conduct most uubecOming and fraught
with the gravest consequences when the
momentous import Of the issue is consid-
cred"
We are led continues the report.
ito conclude that the july undertook to
try the case when it was submitted by
their own estimate of the value of STAT
ments made by parties not called as wit
nesses. With strange unanimity they
dwelt upon what they knew by reading
and heressy of certain incidents OF the
assassination prior to the trial, and made
those the basis of powerful persuasion
Tor giving the accused the benefit of doubt
and concluding the deliberations in their
favor. We take occasion to say it was
not expected to obtain any evidence OF
undue influence from members of the jury;
for those who were uncorrupted had moth
ing to reveal. while the others would not
make themselves partieeps crimInis; yet
in their numerous statements much was
obtained having direct connection with
and supported BY the great volume of tes-
timony ELECTED during the course of the
inquiry.
1t is clearly brought out by the evil
dence OF jurors that, as affecting three of
the accused-Politz. Scattedi and Monas-
terio-the jury engaged in elaboration Tor
four or five hours aud, on repeated ballots
stood six guilty, SIX not guilty. This Is a
clearly defined indication OF the couvic-
ton of the Jury as to three of the accused.
1t forces the conclusion that the evidence
was sufficient to justify six jurors who
stood resolute and determined for a YER
dict of guilty, making it well nigh i'm
possible to reach any other conclusion
than a mistrial. The three accused named
above were probably the unwilling actors
designated by the leaders of the con
spiracy to execute the villainous part in
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nor interest.
Following this investigation it was
gu ckly learned that talesmen had been
approached in various manners, the vile
work ever being carried forward in the
court room during the trial. One tav-
ored expression vas that big money mi. hit
be made BY going on the Jury and doing
right. There Is no doubt that such at
tempts were made by various parties in
the service OF the defense and entertained
by some talesmen aud scOrntully rejected
by Others. In some instances a rebuff
was met with the answer that it was a
Joke, but surely it was a well directed Joke
of deep significance, when the leading
part is enacted 10y the counsel of one of
the accused awaiting trial. now under in
dictment for attempting to bribe a juror.
Another class OF talesmen took special
care to deny any knowledge of the vile
work or showed remarkable deficiency of
memory, causing us to conclude that they
were silent from fear or had been eau
toned about discriminating any one. A
number Of witnesses most emphatically de-
MED having been approached or spoken
to, even after telling it to their friends
who informed us. Among the talesmen
a number of onr citizens have nobly come
forward relating their experiences and
furnishing some OF the missing links in
in the chain of circumstantial evidence
drawn around the organized gang of jury
bribers. 1t is not to be questioned that
the work was systematically executed after
careful preparation, and had to be done
quickly.
The necessity was imperative for a
complete list of talesmen, and the grand
jury knows that the list of taIesmen was
in the office of O'Malley & Adams at IL
O'Clock Sunday morning, Feb. %, though
the trial judge had issued special orders
that the list was not to be made public or
gwen to the counsel of either side until
Monday. 1t is not shown by whose bands
the list was secured, hut enough is
shown to confirm the secret and power
full influence of the so-called private de-
tective agency and Counsel Adams to
handle the machinery OF the court.
Evidence shows that the Isis of names
were tempered with when drawn from the
jury wheel and before they reached the
Jury box in court. O'Malley was put in