The morning call., 1893-10-27
STILL INQUIRING.
The Grand Jury Getting
at Bottom Facts.
LETTER FROM MRS. SPENCER.
A Burglar Captured-Contract by
>. Marriage Consolidated
Railroads Unique Plan.

= OAKLAND The talk Of the town yester-
day was th~ ,iatbeny jury and the prob
able action OF The Grand Jury with regard
to it.
. In the corridor leading to the Grand Jury
*room there we're present yesterday, besides
tbe Matneny jurors, Justice of the Peace
45enweIl and Constable Newell Of Berke-
=1ev Itls said thai Detective John league
.:ts receiyjng considerable attention at this
Time and that these last two witnesses,
:: penweIl and Newell, will testify that
.ceaoue said in Berkeley that the Matheny
1iurv was fixed. 1t is also stated that he
drank with some of the Matheny Jurors
during the trial. and his name had been
mentioned in connection with that of Wit
ness Toedt. who it is said league at
tempted to bribe to change his testimony.
;. Ia defense of himself league said yes
terday: Il have known Toedt twenty-five
wears, and l know him 10 be an unreliable
man. lie has been in trouble with the
before now In connection
with peddlng Chinese cigars, and as for
drinking with Jurors that's no crime. |
admit that Fve d. ne that, but many a
time l have seen district attorneys do the
sans thing. I've been a public officer
here Cor eighteen wears, and have never
done anything that Pm ashamed Of"
league went on 10 say that he had drank
at the Louvre with Toedt as charged, but
that the drinks were at EOedt expense.
league since learned that this was put
uu lob. he said, two officers being concealed
in an adjoining room.
-. league says that at that meeting with
*T0edt he asked the cab-driver if il was
true that he had said he had been offered
silver for his testimony, to which TOedt
had replied that it was lie. He also, he
saws, asked Toedt il he was quite sure that
the man he drove down TO Peralta street
.son that eventfulnight was Matheny, 10
which IOedt made answer that he was not
certain, and that then league warned him
10. be careful how be Swcre mans lie
away on such an uncertainty.
This was the meeting at which it has
been stated that Teague offered Toedt
InOney 10 change his testimony and to say
when ne got on the stand that he was not
positive.
twill be remembered how Toedt TUNED
suddenly sick and refused to answer queS-
tons when he was first called and how he
begged TO be excused for tnat day. But
league says that 1t Is all false. lie
never offered T0edt money.
:. James TraveTs of the West Oakland Sun
was called to testify before the Grand
Jury. He had stated that he saw league
and Ma eny juTyman eating together in
CGuT8ntS saloon.
. Judge Hepshaw. who presided at the
trial of Matheny, was called before the
Jury also. but il is understood that he was
only questioned regarding the duties of
.the Grand Jury.
: -. L was stated yesterday that the whole
Matheny business was an ugly mess. and
that before the Grand jury gets through
with it somebody would be put behind
prison bars.
! Money was supplied, it Is said, but Just
by " hon Is yet TO be learned, and who got
the benefit OF il Is another query.
- Oakland detectives have stated without
Hesitation that Mike Dunn. who keeps a
SAB / fI1nclsCo saloon, Is the man WHO iuT-
:uished The sinews of war and the ''pe-
:cullar' lot of witnesses run In for
.Matheny's alibi. handled by the notorious
."UhIppy'' Gallagher. 1t Is said that the
Grand Jury has been asking some very
pertinent questions about Dunn's place,
"a nd also about the saloon of Harry Inwall
and the visit to the latter place by jury
men during the trial.
Matheny's friends vigorously deny that
money was used unduly during the trial,
and say that Matheny received financial
aid from his father, well-to-do druggist
at Auburn, Ind.
On the other hand. it is said that there
was money used on the jury and no undue
influence exercised; that the vote for ac-
Quittal was an honest vote and was based
mainly on the fact that the prosecution
did not produce The bullet that killed
Cashn.
a juryman said yesterday to a CALL re-
porter:
This excitement about the Matheny
jury and money ls all newspaper talk; it
amounts to nothing. And the story about
acQuittal jurymen wanting to keep Jury
inn Tc II
the other side-those voting for ccnvic-
ton" This juEyman continued, with
significant look, asking, why did the
prosecution not eXhume the body Of Cashin
and settle the bullet question? II would
have been very easy matter"
Editors at War.
F. +. Porter. editor OF the Oakland
Echoes, was called upon in Judge Ogden's
court yesterday TO answer TO a charge of
criminal libel preferred by j. E. Barber,
editor of the Alameda Statesman. The
case was originally set for a hearing by
Judge Greene, but was transferred to
Judge Ogden's department.
- : The suit grew out of the publication of
an article In the Echoes which bore the
heading: The Alameda Telegram and
Argus must disgorge. That S2653 'swaf'
J: ought not to reach Chicago. Light on the
InefaTious work. The Grand Jury"
!: In the course of this article the two edf-
<tQrs are charged with robbery and larceny
from the county funds in collecting bills
contracted for the publication Of the
election proclamation last fall.
:. Both Mr.. Porter and Mr.. Barber were
In attendance yesterday morning.
=; The prosecution was represented by
Assistant District Attorney Frlck and the
defense by Davis and Hill.
=. The following men were chosen to serve
as: jurors in the case: John Kersyin, S.
l.. $Gi bbs, Daniel Fenton, Ed Houston,
George R. Hatfield. Patrick Carroll, J. w.
Easter. John Mccoy, James Bills, Victor