St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-01


out by said Russell, the said judge
| Russell refuse to him the benefits of
habeas corpus. to which he was legally
entitled. That the said Russell was IL
legally and unjustly imprisoned in
said county Jail for a period of ten
| days, until released by order of the
supreme court: that in the same pro-
| ceedings and on the same charge as
that under which Quigley and Russell
We're sentenced, the said judge through
| favoritism and for political reasons,
discharged ]. S. Dwyer without any
1 sentence or punishment whatever.
DAZED OFFICIALS.
/ That on Dec. 4, 1894, as such judge
| Ives charged the grand jury of Polk
| county, then in session, that the city
| officials, the mayor and councilm en-,
| justices of the peace and police officers,
| were required by law to suppress crime
| within the different cities of the county.
That, if crimes were going on, they
were guilty and should be indicted, and
| if crimes We're being committed and
| these officials did not know of their
| commission, they were guilty and
| should be indicted, for it is their duty
! to know what is going on. That such
| charge was given by said judge con-
trary to law, and was given by him in
that manner for the purpose and with
the intent to wrongfully and wilfully
| influence said grand jury to indict the
mayor of the city of Crookston, chief
| of police of said city, mayor of the city
of East Grand Forks and chief of police
cot
said grand jury came into court and
| reported that there was no further
| business before them, he, the said
| judge, stated to said grand jury and
| the public that he knew and had taken
| means of ascertaining what evidence
| and testimony was given and produced
before said grand jury; and, in viola
, ton of section AZ of chapter 107 of the
| General Statutes of 1875 he thereby
questioned the said grand jury and the
| members thereof on account of their
official acts as such jurors. That, in
! fact as judge, he had been in constant
| communication with the foreman of
, said grand jury, and with other per-
sons, and did encourage said persons
| to state to him what evidence and pro-
| ceedings were being introduced and had
before said grand jury, all of which
was by him done in wilful violation of
| the law. That, for the purpose of hui
initiating said grand jury, and with the
intent to show that his desires and
views would have to be enforced and
carried out, the said judge, in their
hearing and in the hearing of large
number of persons in the court room,
orally ordered and directed the clerk
of said court to Immediately issue a
venire for another grand jury to be
summoned to appear in said court.
FIXED THE GRAND JURY.
That at Crookston, Mimi. on Jan. 81,
1895, the said Ives, together with one
e. D. Childs, and another person
whose name is unknown, entered into
conspiracy for the purpose of in
juring the characters of M. r. Brown,
NJ. P. DeWolf, and to get one John
Cromb and T. A. Sullivan and Louis
Gonyea indicted by the grand jury of
said county then in session. That the
said judge then caused certain hear
say testimony of one Nolstad to be
written down, and advised the said
e. d. Childs, as foreman of said grand
jury, that such evidence was sufficient
on which to find a presentment against
said Brown and DeWolf, and there
assisted in planning to have said
Brown and DeWolf. who were mem
bers of said grand jury, excluded
therefrom, and to take in place of
them as members of said grand jury
one Peter Void and one John l..
Finkey.
In pursuance of such scheme the
said Brown and -DeWolf were on the
next day excluded from said grand
jury, and said Void and Finkey,
without being summoned or sworn,
were admitted to said grand jury,
and allowed to deliberate, act
and vote with said grand jury, and
presentments on such hearsay testi-
mony were on that day found against
said Brown and DeWolf and T. A.
Sullivan, all of which was unlaw-
fully and wrongfully planned, directed
and advised by and in the presence of
said judge, for the purpose and with
the intent to reward and assist the
friends of such judge, and to injure
the said Brown, 'DeWolf, Sullivan,
Cromb, Gonyea and others. That the
said Ives, as judge, has during each
term of the district court held in
Polk county, personally ordered and
directed the clerk of court to place
upon the jury list the names of GER
tain persons, without such persons
having been summoned as Jurors or
any Venire whatever having been is
sued for the summoning of such Jury
That the persons so selected by said
judge as jurors were almost Invariably
the personal and political friends of
said judge, and were for that reason
selected by him.
ALL BOUGHT BUT IVES.
That said judge has at different
times publicly, falsely and maliciously
stated that the president of the United
States is bought and owned by certain
interests; that the supreme court is
bought up and paid for it's decisions;
that Hon. Ira 3. Mills, the judge i'm
mediately preceding him in this dis
trict, was owned by the gamblers that
the grand jury at the December, 1884,
general term of said court was bought
up and owned by Tim Sullivan and
others.
That said judge in January. 1894. and
at other times, falsely, willfully and
maliciously, and without any cause.
Il.
ston, the county attorney of said coun-
ty,. charged that the said A. r. Holston
was bought by the defendant in the
case of The State VS. Twedten, and
that the said Holston did not perform
his duty in the said case.
IMMUNITY TO TOUGH PEOPLE.
That on Dec. %. 1894, said judge, In
writing, authorized Stephen Sprague,
deputy sheriff of Polk county, Mime
sofa. to offer complete Immunity from
all punishment to all gamblers and
keepers of houses of prostitution who
would come into court and testify
against the officers of East Grand
Forks. if they knew of any "eyasions'
of said officers, and authorized said
Sprague to assure such gamblers and
Keepers of houses of prostitution that
II they would so testify they would be
protected from prosecution
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