The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-30
GRAND JURY HAS SOME MORE
QUESTIONS TO Ask CERTAIN
GENTLEMENsS
GUSTAV MLLIug $, = POSITION.
REPORTER MAKES = AFFIDAVIT
THE GERslANIze 9Ehs1DENT
WASN'T MISQUOYED.
ANDERSON READNnFoRf TUESDAY.
Statement From Lindquist About HIS
citi.enship-Point That ,the coun-
ty Attorney Dwells Upon.

The grand jury isn't quite through
yet, if report be correct. 1t is said that
it has few volleys OF questions in
store for a few more witnesses, who will
be advised Monday that they will be
wanted the following day. 1t is said
that Mayor Doran, Comptroller Nc
Cardy, City Treasurer Horst, Acting
Chief Schweitzer and two or three other
names have been handed to the county
attorney or his assistant, with a re-
quest that these gentlemen show up
Tuesday. The city officials will prob
ably be asked certain leading ques-
tions about the city government with
a view of furnishing material for the
grand jury to temper or season it's final
report.
The report, current for three days,
that certain gentlemen. whose names
have been freely handed around with
the report, had been indicted is hardly
believed to be correct, although it is
possible that one of the number may
have been added to the roll. 1t is said
that what some people might suspect
as furnishing grounds for an indict-
ment is regarded as carelessness, and
the law takes no notice of official care
lessness. For that reason it is said
there can be no grounds for the rumors
of certain pending indictments.
Exactly what Gustav Willius, the
president of the Germania bank, said
to an evening paper reporter about the
grand jury seems to be in dispute. Mr.
Willius insists that he was .misquoted in
Thursdays issue Of the evening paper
which reported him as criticising the
grand jury, and his letter to that effect,
addressed to the foreman of the grand
jury, was read before that body Friday
afternoon, and published in yesterday S
Globe.
By way of defense the paper in ques-
tion published last evening, under the
heading &c. Willius' Break" the fol-
lowing affidavit Of the reporter who
wrote the article"
M. ]. Donnelly deposes and says that he is
the reporter who interviewed President Will
Illus on Thursday last, and that the interview
appearing in the Thursday issue is correct in
every particular.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
29th day of May, 1897.
SARAH A. YOUNG,
Notary Public, Ramsey county, MINI.
In the interview which Mr.. Willius de-
clares misrepresented his opinion of the
grand jury, he is quoted as follows:
There is one thing to be deprecated in con-
nection with this banking matter, and that is
the piling up of indictments against bank
ing officials by the grand jury. l believe that
if any one has been guilty Of crime that pun
ishment should follow, be the guilty parties
bankers or otherwise. But there have been -
d1ctments returned that do not come under
this head. This accumulation of indictments
and this continued harping upon the subject
is achieving for our city a reputation that is
anything but enviable. = s-az
When seen last night, and asked
affidavit of the interviewer, Mr.. Viii
Illus said:
What more can say? In my letter to the
grand jury, I said all thatsIscare to say. My
word is as good as my OATH.
Grand Juror Lindquist, whose right
to serve on the grand jury Is called in
question by the motions to quash the
indictments found against William f.
Bickel, Albert Scheffer 4 and Alfred s.
kfttSon, has furnished the county at
torney with formal statement show
ing his status in the community.
For the most part, the statement is
substantially the same, as that which
Mr.. Lindquist gave to the Clio e a
few days ago. Mr.. Lindquist says that
on April II, 1897, he. was notified by
the sheriff to serve on the grand jury,
and that ON May 6, 1897, he was sworn
in as grand juror, Mr.. Lindquist
further says that he took out his Sec
ond papers on April 20, 1897, and was
therefore a full citizen of the United
States for about sixteen days before
he was sworn in.
County Attorney Anderson, 1t is un-
derstood, will, in his, argument, lay
stress on the fact that Mr.. Lindquist
had his second papers practically III
his possession ON April 20, the day that
the sheriff made his return of the serv-
ice of the summons on Mr.. Lindquist.
The motions to quash will be argued
Tuesday forenoon. -