St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-06

fedi and MonasteriO, the jury engaged
in the deliberations in their cases
some four or five hours, attended
with intense excitement, and on re-
peated ballots the jury vote stood 6
guilty, not guilty. This is q clearly
defined indication of the convictions of
the jury as to the three accused. 1t
impresseS us deeply, as it must every
one to whom the fact is conveyed, and
forces the conclusion that the evidence
was sufficient to justify the six
jurors who stood resolute and
determined for verdict of guilty,
making it well-nigh impossible
to reach any other conclusion than a
mlStrlal. These three accused, named
above, were probably the unwilling
actors designated by leaders of the con-
splracy to execute villainOuS part, in
which they had neither personal motive
nor interest. Following this inveStiga-
ton, it was quickly learned from vari-
lous sources that talesmen had been ap-
preached: every clue offered WAS taken
up; as rule, the talesmen who had been
previously marked out were seen when
alone or invited away to some secured
and unSuSpected place, we'll 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 or early
morning, intercepted while OH their
way TO the court house, stopped in the
corridor af the court and
The Vile Work
was deliberately carried forward in the
court room dnring the trial. One favor
lte expression was that "bIg money
might be made by going on the jury and
doing right" There is no possible doubt
that such attempts were made by vari-
Gus parties IN the service of the defense
entertained by some of the taleSmen
and scornfully rejected by others. These
are facts given Oh the evidence of tales
men, who, quickly discerning the true
meaning OF the men who addressed
them, Indignantly repelled any attempt
TO control their line OF conduct by these
emlSSaries. In several instances re-
buft was answered that the talk was a
Joke. but surely we'll directed joke Of
deep significance, when the leading part
is enacted by the counsel OF one of the
accused participants i'll The assassination
at the time awaiting trial in tine parish
prlSon-nOW under indictment for
attempting to bribe a juror. Another
class of taleSmen took special care 10
deny any knowledge of the vile work
or showed remarkable deficiency of
memory as to what they had told their
frlen1s, causing US to conclude that
they were silent from fear. or had been
seen and cautioned about discriminating
any one, till their tongues were Silenced
as with the hand of death. In this con-
nectlon we can plainly state that num-
Der OF the witnesses most emphatically
denied having been approached or
spoken to about service on the jury,
even after telling it 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
conGOne crime. is only a step removed
from participation in il. Among the
taleSmen number of our citizens have
nobly come forward from a sense of
duty, relating their experiences. fur
nlShlng at least some of the missing
links i'll the chain of circumstantial evil
dence drawn around the organized
Gang of Jury Bribers.
1t is not to be questioned that the
work was Systematically executed after
careful preparation, and it had to be
done quickly, as the hours were few and
time precious. The necessity was i'm
perative for complete lists of talesmen,
but such lists were easily obtained as in
iiC Sihhu hlIOWo
that the list Of 500 talesmen in the Hen
messy case was in the office of O'Malley
& Adams at II O'clock Sunday
morning, Feb. %, 1891, though
4he trial judge issued special orders
Saturday evening that the list was not
to be made public or given to counsel
for either side until onday morning.
1t was not shown by whose hands the
list was secured, but enough is shown
to confirm the past secret and power
full influence of the s0-called private de-
tectiye agency and counsel Adams
to handle the machinery of the
court. The official relations OF
the jury commissioners to the
court in the trial of criminal cases
are so intimate and tar-reaching in their
ton of their duties has become the
fountain source of the successful fixing
of jurors in important trials. Great or
small pieces of evidence shows that the
list of names were tampered with when
drawn from the jury wheel and
before they reached the jury box
in the court. O'Malley was then
put in possession of the lists
almost Immediately after the names
were drawn and before they reached the
district attorneys in due course. In
f1uential friends alone could accomplish
these ends, but 1t was secured IN the
person of one of the commissioners
lately removed. 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 were
on the list in
O'Malley & Adams
office. and later, as the talesmen were
drawn, many more names appeared that
were on that private list. At times spe-
cial lists were brought to the jury CON-
missioners, 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 800 jurors from a wheel
containing 1000 names. We must ex-
press regret that any cause should ex-
iSt for the criticisms directed towards
some of the deputy sheritfs employed in
court and at the parish prison. I'm
reliability seems to be the feature mark
ing their conduct, interrupting the con-
fdence which should clothe every sub
ordinate officer of the law. There
manifest-whlle not detected in
any act of intdelity-that suspicion was
aroused as to their sympathy with the
accused, calculated to embarrass the
best directed efforts of the prosecution.
1t is noteworthy point in this cOnnec-
tlon that the indictments against Nc
Crystol and Cooney being read in the
court room in blank. the fact was at
once communicated to them through
some of the subordinates of the court.
Under a proper condition of things
the utmost secrecy should have
been observed. 1t is further shown that
when the arrest was made of these two
parties in the office of O'Malley &
Adams, the deputy sheriff was asked by
O'Malley to say the arrest was made on
Carond0let street, and it was so re-
ported to the court. In searching for
the true causes of the criminal actions
connected with the impaneling of the
jury in the Hennessy case, the sworn