The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-03
HENRY CRUBER NOT GUILTY
JURY TAKES SOME TIME
REACHING THE VERDICT
Eleven for AcquittaI From the Start
No VindicatiOn for the Police
FOrce--The Former Detective
Saws He Is Now Going After Some
of the Men Who Tried to Settle
Him.

4 of the Men Who Tried to Settle
Him.
Henry Gruber is not guilty of the
crime of grand larceny, in taking Roe
bucks money from Furey. So said
the jury in his case, after celebrating
for some six hours on the evidence.
The verdict, of course, said nothing
as to the guilt or innocence Of the men
who were implicated by the testimony.
The police department was not Vlndl-
Gated. in spite of the vigorous defense
made by County Attorney Anderson.
When the verdict was announced,
the latter at once nolled the second in
dictment against Mr. Gruber.
The court, in accordance with the
Wishes Of the jury, and in line with
his own feelings in the matter. admin
istered some advice to the defendant
before setting him at liberty.
When the court got through with
him. Mr.. Gruber shook hands with a
few friends and delivered himself of a
few remarks, as follows:
IT am not through with those fellows
Net, and they will find it out. They
hive hunted me like dirty dog to pro-
teNt themselves, and now I'm going 10
start after them. They tried to put me
in the penitentiary, and now I'll see
about them"
The assurance of the freedom made
Mr.. Gruber feel that confession was
good for the soul, and he will have
more to offer that was. during the past
few days, "'immaterlal, incompetent
and irrelevant"
The case came up at o'clock yes
terday morning. The court had ar
ranged to sit early, in order to give the
case to the jury by noon.
Mr.. Anderson summed up for the
state. He has conducted the case all
through without assistance, Mr.. Zoll-
man not putting in an appearance.
He did not want to jeOpardize Cru
bers sure thing of getting out, if An
dersOn tried it alone" a court attend
ant remarked.
The county attorney made a plea of
considerable length, in which he at
tempted to show that it was not the
police department, but Gruber, that
was on trial. He arraigned the de-
PENDANT for bringing scandal upon his
former associates, and told in detail
his version of the story of how Cru
Der secured and disposed of Roebucks
money. He attempted to show that
POthen was simply the agent of Cru
Der to take the money to the chief, and
that he had been dragged into the mat
ter, as SchweitZer had, by trying to
do the accused good turn. He point
town. and said that he would not have
returned were it not for the fact that
promise had been secured from Roe
buck not to appear at the trial. Then
he helped the mayor out bit.
They are trying Mayor Doran in
this case" he said
God knows he needs it," interpolated
Mr.. Hearn, with some show of hearth
ness.
Mr. Hearn opened by congratulating
the taxpayers on the jury on learning,
for the first time, something about the
police force they were taxed to main
tain. 1t would be better, he suggested,
to dump the money into the sewer in
stead of putting it to such base uses
as the maintenance of such police.
Then he went into the case, and again
the story of the robbery and the di-
vision of the spoils was told The
means by which that stack of gold
pieces went back to Roebuck was fol-
lowed
Attention was called to the fact that
Gruber had given the money up as soon
as he could get to a superior officer
within couple of hours, at the out
side, yet it had taken something like
two weeks to get it back to the place
where it started from. Where had it
been in the meantime?
1t was not charged that it was in the
hands of the defendant.
1t was a queer state of affairs that
the chief should go to the grand jury
to secure the indictment of Gruber for
stealing money that had been in his
the chiefs, possession within couple
of hours of the robbery.
There ought to have been more in
dictmerts than this one, Mr.. Hearn
said, and if he was not much mistaken
the next grand jury would remedy this
oversight on the part of the last The
idea among the officials had been to
smother an investigation. Griffin want
ed no investigation and neither did
anyone else until the matter was made
too hot to keep, and they then made
a scapegoat of Gruber. Referring to
the reference made by Mr. Anderson
to Mayor Doran Mr.. Hearn said:
And in the face of these things this
man wants his damnab!e record carried
on two years more"
He said that Roebuck had agreed in
the presence of County Attorney An
dersOn that the case against Gruber
should be nOlled. The county attorney
challenged the statement.
''That is false and you know It," said
Mr.. Anderson holly.
Il know that 1t is true and Mr.. Will
liam L. Kelly will bear me out in the
statement"
Here the court interfered. In conclu-