Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-05-06


executed after careful preparation, and it had
20 be done quickly, as the hours were Few and
time precious.
The necessity was imperative for complete
lists Of the talesmen, but such lists were easily
obtained as in other trials The grand Jury
knows that the list of 500 talesmen in the Hem
messy was in the Office of OMaiiey d
Adams at ii o'clock Sunday morning. February
%. 1891. though the trial judge issued special
orders Saturday evening that the list was not to
be made public or given to counsel OF either
side until Monday morning. 1t is not shown
by whose hands the list secured, but
enough is known to confirm the past secret and
powerful influence of the so-caled private de-
tective agency and Counsel Adams to handle
the machinery of the court.
oMALLEY HAD THE LISTS.
''The official relations of the jury commission
ers to the court in the trial of criminal cases
are so intimate and far reaching in their conse-
quences that the maladministration of their
duties has become the fountain source Of the
successful fixing ofjurors in important trials.
Great or small pieces of evidence show that the
lists OF names were tempered with when drawn
from the jury wheel and before they reached
the jury box in the court. o Malley was put
in possession Of the lists almost Immediately
after the names were drawn and before they
reached the district attorneys Office in due
course. Influential friends alone could ac-
complish these ends, but it was secured
III the person OF one OF tue COM
missioners lately removed. 1t is further
shown that in the office OF this de-
tective agency is kept book of names and adj
dresses of jurymen. Out of three hundred names
drawn for the February panel thirty-two were
on the list in o Malley 4 Adams Office, and
later as the talesmen were drawn many more
names appeared that we're on that private list.
At times special lists were brought to the jury
commissioners, which, one OF them stated, had
been prepared elsewhere, and being looked
over by the others, went INTO the jury wheel.
Truly the business of this enterprising detective
agency was facilitated when thirty-two names
of their selection could be drawn on a panel of
three hundred jurors from wheel containing
one thousand names
INDIFFERENT DEPUTY sHER1FFs
1--WE mustexpress regret thatan cause should
exist for the criticisms directed toward some of
the deputy sheriffs employed in the court and
at the parish prison. UnreliabIlity seems to be
the feature marking their conduct, interrupt
Ing the confidence which should clothe every
subordinate officer of the law. There were
those whose indifference was SO manifest
while not detected in any act of infidelity-that
suspicion was aroused to their sympathy
with the accused calculated to embarrass the
best directed efforts of the prosecution. 1t is a
noteworthy point in this connection that the
indictments against McCrystol and Cooney be-
ing read in the court room in blank, the fact
was at once communicated to them through
some OF the subordinates of the court. Under
proper condition OF things the utmost secrecy
should have been observed. 1t is further shown
that when the arrest was mace of these two
parties in the Office of OMalley Il Adams the
deputy sheriff was asked by o Malley TO say the
arrest was made on CarOndelet street, and it
WAS 50 reported to the court.
I'm searching for the true causes of the crim-
inal actions connected with the impaneling Of
the jury i'll the Hennessy case the sworn state
at of fall 10 of
value, and in this place we take occasion to de-
clare that Collins was selected especially for
the duties to be performed and for this pur-
pose secured employmentin o Malley d Adams
Office, which being done he was commissioned
a special officer by the mayor and paid by the
city Tor this service. The money received by
him each week from O'Alalley & Adams for
services rendered there was handed to the des-
1S1ated person at the city hall The diff cult
and dangerous duties assumed by Special Officer
Collins while acting in his double capacity
were performed with the strictest fidelity,
as evidenced by the daily reports in writing of
everything seen or heard minute in all details.
he correctness Is assured, In fact, the material
features OF the statement and reports are so
closely connected and interviewer with the facts
and circumstances connected with the trial, as
confirmed by various other witnesses, that there
Is not the slightest reason to doubt its accuracy
and correctness. 1t unfolds the whole story Of
the iniquitous workings of the arch conspira-
tor and his heutenants, revealing the bound
less power Of a man to overcome and defy the
majesty OF the law on criminal and civil pro-
ceedings through the operations of an unscru-
pulous private detective agency. Truly may
1t be said that the greater the freedom
OF action and the removal of restraint
under the liberal privileges accorded all
men in our country. the holder becomes the
unlawful practices, the greater the villainy of
such combination of designing and unscrupu-
lous malefactors. II is well known to the court,
and will be quickly realized by every thought
full person, that the difficulties of establishing
the existence Of a conspiracy by adequate
proof are almost insurmountable. Such plot
tlngs are done in secret places and their work
lngs often guarded by the advice of counsel
well yersed in criminal law. Secrecy is an es-
sential element in the successful execution of
the designs OF conspiracy. Seldom does it
happen that any one of the participants will
reveal the vilainy either before or after its ex-
ecution.
SIX INDIcrMENTs.
I'm the attempts to influence the talesmen of
the Hennessy case no visible act was COM
mitted. and we fully realize the difference be-
tween a crime committed by words only and
what are known as visible acts, which might
be witnessed by other persons and tell the tale
OF crime. In the attempts to influence tales
men and the successful part of it, whispered
words conveyed the insinuation or directly Of
fered the money influence. This reference
Will serve to show the barriers this inquest has
encountered in securing evidence, but sufficient
was offered by voluntary and reliable witnesses
to Justify the Indictment Of six men, as follows:
Thomas McCrystol and John Cooney, with ID.
G. o Maliey, for attempting to bride a tales
man, and Bernard Glaudi, Charles Granger and
Ferneard Armant, for attempt by each to bride
three different talesmen. These parties are
closely shown TO have been intimate with
D Malley, often at his Office, informed of all
doings, and were active workers in the Jury
fixing business generally.
Eve are prompted to express ourselves in de-
precation of the hesitation of many of our
citizens TO be connected with criminal prosecu-
ton by seeking relief from jury duty. The in
telligent and law abiding, with those engaged
in the various enterprises of business and
trade, must recognize the obligation without
which the guilty too often go UNPUBLISHED. We
urge them to cast off this repugnance to rise
superior to the annoyances attendant upon
trials. standing up with the great majority of
their fellow men in the condemnation of the
detestable practices brough: to high degree
of perfection by their frequency. of their prac-
tees which threaten to deaden and destroy the
virtues of the criminal code. to debase the
temple of justice for ignoble ends and de-
grade the cherished right of trial by Jury
IRON its high position the exponent Of truth
justice and right.
oMALLEY THE CHIEF OFFENDER.
taking into account the volume of testi-
mony admitted by the numerous witnesses be-
fore this grand jury, and considering that
evidence, not only in the abstract relation to