The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-05-13

4 dAouc OF invited away 10 some secluded ana
unsupported place. well designed pretexts
| guarding the real meaning of the talks, but
/ quickly leading up to the great trial; talesmen
/ were visited at their homes during the evening
4 or early morning interrupted on their way TO
/ the court house. stopped in the corridor Of the
| court, and the vile work was deliberately car
Tled forward in the court room during the trial.
| One favorite expression was that 'big money
might be made by going on the jury and doing
1 right"
There is no possible doubt that such attempts
| were made by various parties in the service Of
] the Recommendations by some of the tales
| men and scornfully rejected by others. These
/ are facts given on the evidence OF talesmen,
| who, quickly discerning the true meaning OF
/ the men who addressed them, Indignantly re-
PEELED any attempt TO control their line of con-
duet by these emissaries. In several instances
/ rebuff was answered that the talk was Joke,
/ but surely a well-directed joke of deep sig
| nihcance when the leading part is enacted by
the one Of the accused participants in the
assassinationcat the time awaiting Trial in the
parish pTisOn-nOw under indictment for at
| tempting to bride juror.
| Another class of the talesmen took special
/ care deny any knowledge of the vile work
| or showed remarkable deficiency of memory
| 10 what they had told their friends, causing US
| to conclude that they were silent from fear or
| had been seen and cautioned about incriminat-
| ing any one, till their tongues were silenced as
with the hand Of DEATH In this connection we
can plainly state that a number of the wit
nesses most emphatically denied having been
approached or spoken TO about service on the
jury, even after telling il to their friends who
had informed US Yes; there were young men
from whom better things were expected. OF
such We can say, that TO conceal, and thereby
! attempt to cOndone a crime. is only step
moved from participation IN il. Among tine
taesmen, O number OF our citizens have nObly
come forward from q sense of duty. relating
their experiences, furnishing at least
N
the chain OF circumstantiai evidence,
drawn around the organized gang of jury brib-
ers. 1t is not to be questioned that the work
was systematically executed after careful prep
aration, and il had to be done quickly. as the
hours were lew and time precious. The neces-
sity was imperative for complete lists Of the
tglesmen but such lists were easily obtained as
in other trials Tho grand jury knows that the
list OF 800 talesmen IN the Hennessy case was
in the Office Of O'Mailey 4 Adams at IL
o'clock Sunday morning. Feb -. 1891, though
the trial judge issued special orders Saturday
evening that the list was not to be made pub
lilo or given to counsel OF either side until Mon
day morning. 1t is not shown by whose hands
the list was secured, but enough is known to
confirm the past secret and powerful influence
of the sOcalled private detective agency and
Counsel Adams to handle the machinery of the
court.
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 mal-administration of their
duties has become the fountain source of the
! successful fixing of jurors in important trials.
Great and 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. OMalley
was put in possession of the lists almost imme-
dlately 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 IL was secured in the
person of one of the commissioners lately re-
moved. 1t is further shown that in the Office
of this detective agency is kept book of
names and addresses of jurymen; out of 800
names drawn for the February panel, thirty.
two on the list in O'Aialley Il Adams
Office, and later, the talesnen were drawn
many more names appeared that were 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 en-
terprising detective agency was facilitated
when thirty-twO named of their selection could
be drawn on a panel OF 300 Jurors from wheel
containing 1000 names
We must express regret that any 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, inter
rupting the confidence which should clOthe
every subordinate officer of the law. There
were those whose Indifference was manifest
while not detected in any act of infdeity-
that suspicion aroused as TO their SYM
patty with the accused, calculated 10 embar-
ras the best efforts of the prosecution. Ii is
a noteworthy point in this connection that the
indictments against McCTystOl and COOney
being read in the court room in blank,
the fact was at once communicated to them
through some of the suboTd mates OF the court
Under q proper condition of things the utmost
secrecy should have been observed. 1t il fur
Their shown that when the arrest was made of
these two parties in the Office of OMaley Il
Adams the deputy sheriff was asked by O'Mal.
ley to say that the arrest was made Caron-
dOlet-st, and Ii was so reported TO the court.
In searching for the true causes of the crlm-
inal acts connected with the empaneling OF
the jury in the Hennessy case the sworn state
ment of Thomas c. Collins is found of great
value, and in this place we take the precaution
to declare that Collins selected especially
tor the duties to be performed, and for this
purpose secured employment in OMalley &
Adams Office, which being done he was CON-
missioned special officer by the mayor and
paid by the city for this service. The money
received by him each week from O'Malley 4
Adams for services rendered there was handed
to the designated person at the city hall. The
dImcuit and dangerous duties assumed
by Special 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, the cor
rectness is assured in fact, the material feat
ures OF the statement and reports are
so closely connected aud interviewer with the
facts and circumstances connected with the
trial. 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 Ubiquitous workings of the
arcb-conspirator and his lieutenants, revealing
the b0undless power OF man to overcome
and defy the majesty of the law in criminal
and civil proceedings through the operations
OF an inscriptions private detective agency.
Truly may il be said that the greatest 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 INSCRIPTIONS
indicators.
IL is well known 10 the court and will be
quickly realized by every thoughtful person
that the difficulties Of establishing the exist
ence of conspiracy by adequate proof are
almost insurmountable. such plottiDgs are
done in secret places and their workings often
guarded by the advice of counsel well versed in
criminal law. Secrecy is an essential element
in the successful execution of the designs of a
conspiracy. Seldom does il happen that any
one OF the participants will reveal the villiany
either before or after it's execution.
In the attempts to influence the talesmen of
the Hennessy case, no visible act was COM
mitted, and we fully realize the difference be-
tween crime,commit,ed by words only and