The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-21

Some One Steals the Jury Box From
the Court House aud Extricates q
Large Number of Names and snbsti-
tutes for Them Other Men, Supposed to
be Favorable to Him-Discovery ID
Made Easily and Two Arrests Are Made
Very BunglIns Oae
Guthrie. o. T, Nov. 20-A curious at
tempt to fix juries is reported from
Saltwater. The plan Of the fixers was
to secure j1ries favorable socially to
them by plugging the box from which
the names Of jurors AIRED rawn.
The Saltwater Gazette gives the fol-
lowing account:
The officers whose duty IS to draw a
jury, both grand and petit, for each
term OF court, were not little surpris-
! ed last Monday morning when they got
out the jury box and opened it, to find
that 1t had been tempered with and that
the three hundred names then in the
box about one hundred and sixty had
been taken out and destroyed and
about forty-five new names put in the
| box in their place. The jury boxes in
| the several counties are filled after each
| election with list of names recon-
mended by the various election boards
of the different townships, and in this
county when it was filled a year ago
i there were about three hundred and
/ a H.,
| arate slip OF paper. The slips were all
| written by Miss Sue F. Jewett, then
(, deputy county clerk, and each of the
| slips were ruled in red ink between the
names and the townshinp where the
party resides. When District Clerk
| Norman, Sheriff Annis and County
| Clerk Means opened the box last Mon
! day and began to draw, the first ticket
taken out Of the box was irregular, be-
| ing written in a different hand and not
| having the red lines across it. This
aroused the suspicion Of the officers,
and upon investigation they found that
| fully one hundred and fifty names had
been taken and about forty-five forged
slips had been put in their place. The
advantage in this to the party who per-
petrated the deed could be none what
| ever except to get his own friends on
| the jury. If the guilty party be de-
| PENDANT in a criminal action this would
| be OF considerable benefit to him in
case Ii was not discovered, as it would
give him an opportunity to get hung
| jury at the worst.
'It is now known that the jury box
was taken from the district clerks Of
| flee one night about a week ago and
| taken to an office in this city where the
work of changing the slips was prob
ably done Entrance into the clerks
office was effected by means of dupli
cate key and the box was returned be-
fore morning.
LAS soon as the fraud was discovered
| an entirely new jury list was made out
in the county clerks office and placed in
the box from which Jurors of the COM
| ing term OF court were drawn, SO that
the hard nights work of the two par
ties connected with this case will not
! help them out OF present rouoles, and
| il may result in both Of them being in
dicted by the next grand jury
Just as we go to press Van Martin
and W. B. Williams were placed under
arrest charged with mutilating LIN
county records and thec- 5oa.s For ap-
pearance is fixed by the prooatec curt
| make up
TECUMSEH WANTS AGENCY.
Tecumseh. o. T, Nov. 20-The Repub-
lican heresays:
1--WE notice in the report OF the CON-
missioner of Indian affair SHAT he rec
ommends the removal OF the Sac and
! Fox agency % Tecumssh or Shayne
and also recommends that sufficient ap-
preparations be made by congress TO
erect suitable buildings az which ever
point the agency might De removed.
The commissioner recommends this re-
moval for the reason that il is now 10
Gated thirty-Iive or forty miles from
railroad accommodations and that it
should De located nearer the territory
from watch the bulk OF the business %
the office comes Recent legislation Civ
ing the Pottawatomie and absentee
Shawnee Indians the right 70 dispose OF
their lan6s-in excess % eighty acres
gives this county the bulk OF the bust
ness and hence the Recommendation for
the removal 70 the agency. Tecumseh
is the best location for this agency in
al respects. Railroad acoonu1oda ions
are as good here as al Shawnee; our 10
cation Is more healthy: and We are more
centrally located in regard 10 the In
dian lands. while Shawnee is on the
north border Of the PottawatoTnie and
Shawnee reservations. Dur citizens can
secure this agency By going 70 work foV
il, and now il sie time u begin.
NEW KIND OF FAKIR
Guthrie, O. T. Nov. 2.-Tas Ponca
City Courier says <;-as 4 L Richards.
who is in The .eity. is on his way =
Buenos AyrsS. the capital 0, Argentine
Republic. from Milwaukee en- a wager.
Re has 20 days % complete tie to-nsy