The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-22
.BOODLERS INDICTED
True Bills Against Seven of
Chicag0'S Aldermen.
ROTH MAKES A STATEMENT
He Was Paid Money for His vote-He Ac
cepted it Merely to Catch the Cor
ruptionists-He Succeeded.

CHICAGO, Marcn 21.-Atter three days
| investigation the grand jury this after
noon returned true bills against seven
aldermen, charged with conspiracy to COM
nit bribery in connection with various or
dlnances which have been the subject of
investigation. Those indicted are w. J.
O'Brien, Daniel r. Tobin, Nichols A
Cramer, L. j. German, Philip jackson, S.
M. Gosslin and John NJ. Dorman.
TWO MORE INDICTMENTS
were found but not returned. They
charged bribery against the first named,
w. j. O'Brlen. They charged bribery AID
state that O'Brien gave Alder man Roth
sl,020 to vote for the Northern Pacific or
dlnance and $50 to vote for the ECONOMIC
Gas ordinance.
Among the names of witnesses signed to
the indictments is that of Hannah Larkin.
IN regard to this appearance of woman
IN tue case" States Attorney Longenecker
SAID: There are certain houses of i'll
repute which certain aldermen visited
while under the influence of liquor, and
where they talked too much
FOR THEIR OWN GOOD"
Asked if more indictments might be
day might be expected until the whole out
III Is run down. AS soon as the indict-
ments were out, Judge Anthony fixed bail
at SlU,OOO. CapiaseS were at once issued
and placed in the hands of a deputy sheriff
and this evening all those indicted except
Alderman Gosslln have come and fur
nlshed bonds.
Alderman Roth tonight made public off,
clally Tor the first time the part he has taken
IN the Doodle transactions. He saws he had
not long been in the council until he found
taat ordinances were not always passed
upon their merits. at the time of the pas
sage OF the Economic ordinance over the
mayor veto, it was found by the boodlers
III would be necessary to bring into line
some alderman whose vote originally was
against it. He (Roth) was spoken to by
ceive
A CONSIDERATION FOR HIS VOTE.
knowing the Daily NsuS and other papers
had taken vigorous public stand against
ooodllng, and that they would be friendly
10 any exposure, and with further view
/ OF bringing the corruptionists to Justice. he
| (hoth) called on the Daily Neus. The
matter was carefully talked over and ar
rangements made for receiving the money
promised IN such a way that witnesses
could testify to the visit of the man who
paid 1t. Roth says $3.50 was paid him in his
cince, and he Immediately showed it to the
oookkeeper, explaining
TIE NATURE OF THE CASE.
Immediately after he took the money to the
Daily Nelrs Office and in the presence of
witnesses Deposited it in the safe in q
| sealed envelope. Two weeks later the
Northern Pacific ordinance passed the
council second time. a certain alderman
from the South Side informed Roth the day
after that Billy O'Brien had the money and
that he was to meet Billy at the Sherman
! house that afternoon. Roth Immediately
communicated the fact TO the Ddilu Neus
and they had the Sherman house
watched. That afternoon Billy O'Brien
met Roth in the hall and handed
him the envelope with the word
"Roth" written on the outside of it. Roth
went over to the Office Of Baker attorney
Tor the Tribune, and telephoned for repre-
sentstiVes OF other papers. The envelope
was opened in their presence and found to
contain
TWO $500 BILLS,
which was again sealed up and placed with
the other money. Roth says he took no
money at any time for any other purpose
than with the idea of exposing the corrup-
zionist, and has profited IN no way otper
than the feeling of satisfaction that follows
duty well performed.
Not one of the indicted aldermen would
talk this evening further than to profess
their ability to prove their entire innocence.
In the the face of possible Imprisonment
for number of them, members of the
city council, at the regular weekly meeting
tonight, exhibited
DISPOSITION To BE FAcET1oUs,
! but the proceedings were rather subdued
! One member of the council finally into
duced an order that the corporation counsel
be instructed to assist the states attorney
IN any manner possible IN investigating the
boodling. Alderman O'Neiu exclaimed,
laughingly. that there ought to be honor
among thieves, and he didn't think the
council should order anything of the kind.
The motion was placed on the file.