The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-07
yTATE COMES IN AND ASKS THAT
Ut BE RAISED ONCE
MORE.
zOLLMAN NOW ASKS $4,000.
NTTORNEY MCDONALD APPEALS TO
JUDGE LEWIS NOT TO GRANT
THE REQUEST.
CHARGES AND COUNTER CHARGES.
yone Sensational Developments
Promised Before the Case Has
Been Finished.

Robert Bell, who is still in Jail I'M
der an indictment charging him with
perjury, is having a hard time trying
to get out of Jail. He blames the st.
Paul & Duluth road for his trouble,
rather than the county attorneys Of
fee. Bell and Harry Burns, recently
brought to st. Paul from Winnipeg, are
charged with swearing falsely in a
damage suit against the ST. Paul &
Duluth, which resulted in a verdict
against the road.
Bells bail was originally fixed at $500.
His father, who lives in Eau Claire,
raised the money necessary to deposit
for bail security. Thereupon, on mo-
ton Of County Attorney Anderson,
Judge Lewis raised the bail to $780,.
Sureties were sought for, and two were
secured, but one refused to go on the
bond with another, and again Bell was
disappointed Then Mr.. Bells attOr-
ney, W. H. Mcdonald, offered a sure
ty company's bond, that of the Amer
lean Bonding and Trust company. The
county attorney objected that surety
company bonds were not acceptable in
criminal cases. Accused persons might
jump bail furnished by surety COM
panies. Judge Lewis took the matter
under Amusement, and yesterday fore
noon decided that the surety company
bond would not be accepted.
Attorney w. H. Mcdonald, who ap-
peared before Judge Lewis yesterday,
considered that his client was being
treated unfairly. The whole thing, he
thought, was a conspiracy on the part
of the st. Paul & Duluth road.
Assistant County Attorney Zollman
then moved that Bells bail be raised
to $4,000, and in support of his motion
submitted an affidavit by Emerson
Hadley, one of the attorneys for the
St Paul & Duluth.
The affidavit contained some SEN
sat<onal charges After reciting that
several citizens were ready to swear
that Bell was in Eau Claire at the
time the accident occurred in Mime
apolis, it alleges that Bell confessed
to Hadley that he was not in Mime
apolis on March l, 1897, the day the
accident occurred, and that he also
declared that he was induced and
hired by one William Keefe to give
false and perjured testimony on the
trial, and that he was told by Keefe
what to testify to and to testify that
he was present with Harry Burns
in the railroad yards in Minneapolis
on March 1 and saw the train run
into and knock Gown Roman Kran.
The affidavit further recited that William
Keefe agreed to give him. Robert Bell, $25
for giving the false and perjured testimony,
and did in fact, altogether, pay him the
sum of $11. That Robert Bell told deponent
on Nov. 18th that William Keefe had en-
ployed w. H. Mcdonald and w. Fl. Frawley
to defend him, and that they had come to
see him while he was in Jail. Frawley is the
mayor of Eau Claire, and deponent Hadley
believes that he has repeatedly used his in
fluence in attempting to prevent the police
men of Eau Claire from coming to st. Paul
to testify. These policemen have told de-
ponent that they were willing to come and
testify but that influence was being used
to prevent them, and that they were afraid
they would lose their positions if they came.
That w. H. Mcdonald appeared in the dis
trict court and offered as one of the bondsmen
for Bell one Lorentz Anderson, who is a
bondsman for Keefe and that money in
demnity in the sum of $500 has been in st.
Paul in the past two days offered to persons
who would go bail for Bell, and deponent
believes that that sum has been offered to
the American Bonding and Trust company to
become bail for said Bell. Deponent believes
that William Keefe is directly or indirectly
furnishing the indemnity so offered and that
William Keefe is attempting to carry out the
scheme of conspiracy with Robert Bell, which
was talked over and planned with Bell be-
fore his indictment to furnish bail for Bell
and get him released from the county jail, in
crime and run away and get away from the
jurisdiction of the court, that he may not ap-
pear for trial.
w. H Mcdonald then addressed the
court He began by arraigning the
attorneys for the ST. Paul & Duluth
road. AS he proceeded, he waxed an
CRY. In a voice trembling with rage,
he denounced, without calling him by
name, an attorney, who he charged,
had been handed $500 for the purpose
of coaxing or eXtorting a confession
from Bell.
Referring to the bail, Mr.. Mcdonald
spoke of the manner in which it had
been raised from $500 to $500, then to
$780, and now counsel wanted it
raised to $4,000. 1t was true $500 cash
had been put up, but not by Keefe.
The st. Paul & Duluth road had now
appeared in the case. Mr.. Mcdonald
had never heard of a case of the kind
in which higher bail had been re-
quired. Bell had certain constitution
al rights to bail, and the court could
not ignore them. Bell says that he
was promised release with bail at $500,
and that he should not receive more
than six months punishment. The
county attorney ought not to be sub
jugated by the Duluth road. Mr. Nc
Donald called the attention of the
court to the fact that the railroad