Mexico weekly ledger., 1895-04-11
The Jury Discharged.
FRESH EVIDENCE OF GROSS COR
RUPTION IN THE TAY-
LOR CASE.
A Reputable Farmer Twice Offered
Bride Money-The Jury Appearsin
Court and Reports That 1t Can
not Agree Seven for
Conviction.
JURY DISCHARGED.

The Jury in the Taylor case stood Z
to 5 for conviction, and a. 10 a. M,
April 5, were discharged.
CARRoLLToN, Mo, April AT 1870
O'Clock this afternoon the jury sem
word to Judge Rucker that it was
ready to return a verdict. There was
a rush for the court house and i'll less
than five minutes it was filled.
When Judge Rucker had taken his
seat Bill and George Taylor were
brought in. George looked as uncon-
cerned as he did during the first days
OF the trial, but Bills face bore an ex-
preston of anxiety.
After the crowd had been quoted
Judge Rucker said: "Have you agreed
upon a verdict, gentlemen"
1--WE have" said Foreman George
Flemming, and he handed a folded
sheet of paper to Clerk Mcclure, who
read it aloud. 1t was: "We,the jury,
cannot agree"
1t was a disappointment to the Judge
as well as the crowd, and he said
sternly: "Sheriif, take the jury to its
and lock it up"
JUROR YEHLa NOT IMPLICATED.
John Horning, who gave informa-
ton to Prosecutor Bresnehen yester-
day of jury bribing, came to town to-
day and said to Mr.. Bresnehen that he
had made a slight mistake when he
said Charles Dickinson had told him
Frank Yehle, a member of the jury,
had approached him with an offer of
money TO hang the jury. 1t was not
Frank Yehle, but two other men, he
said, whom Mr.. Dickinson had REPORT
ed tried to bride him.
There is now no doubt that the jury
has been tempered with. Sidney Mil
Ter, Prosecuting Attorney of Carroll
county, made II trip yesterday after
noon to the vicinity of Bogard, where
a number of men live who were on the
original panel of forty from which was
selected the jury TO- locked in the
court house. Charles Dickinson was
one of that panel. He lives foul miles
south of Tina. He told Prosecutor
Miller yesterday that at 1890 O'Clock
on the Monday night before the trial
began Jacob S. Williams, cashier of the
Bank of Tina, went to him at his farm
house and said that if he would con-
sent to do certain things he would be
drawn on the jury of twelve. Williams
told him if he would stand out for ac-
quittal there would be big money in it
for him, and if he would succeed in
hanging the jury there would be good
money in it. Williams said that he
would see that the money was paid.
Dickinson spurned the offer and Will
liams drove away.
TWICE OFFERED BRIDE MONEY.
The next day, Dickinson says, he
was approached by Rich Smith, a
brother-in-law of Barney Hudson, who
is now on the jury, and Smith made
the same proposition that had been
made by Williams. Dickinson is one
of the most reputable men in the u
ty. He is willing to swear to what he
told to Prosecutor Miller. Williams
has the reputation in this county OF
being a land shark. He has been
charged in the Carroll county courts
with fraud, as the records of the court
show.
There is great Indignation i'll Carroll
county that a jury could be found here
to do anything but convict the Tay-
lors. No Ii has the slightest doubt
of their guilt and the only reason ex-
pressed to account for the hung jury
is that some member of it has been
bribed.
Judge Rucker said to-day that un-
less the jury should agree he would
keep it out till the last moment al
noon Saturday, when he has to go to
K~eytesville to get ready to attend
session OF court which opens there
Monday. If the jury has failed tc
agree at that time he will discharge it
The session of court at keytesvliie
will continue two weeks. Then the
April term of court will begin here
and a special grand jury will be called
before which all the evidence of jury
bribing that can be gathered by Prose
cutor Miller will be laid.
THE PEOPLE DEEPLY INCENsED-
Marshal Wilson of Browning says
there is the greatest indignation il
Linn and Sullivan counties over the
manner in which the jury is holding
out. Asked if he apprehended danger
from mob violence in case the jury
should fail to agree, he laughed ant
said: "Well, you can't tell what vii
happen"
"Bill says if he is acquitted he vii
return to Browning. Do you think HI
would?" was asked.
s"WeH, if he did he would last just a
long as it would take us TO find arop'
to hang him."
Wilson says he has information tina
in 1887, while George Taylor wa
teaching school in Stone county, h.
got into a difficulty over a team o
horses and killed IN old white ma
and a negro boy. He was arrested AM
tried for the crime and acquitted, nj
brother Bill, who was then a membe
of the Missouri Legislature, and a ma
with the appearance of responsibility
going to Stone County and succeedini
in establishing an alibi.
w. NJ. Treloar, of Mexico, Mo.,Con
gresham of the Ninth Missouri Con
gressional District, was in the city 70
a few hours this morning. The objee