Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-12-21
The IINDELIE CASE.
Considerable Comment at Grand Forks
Because Of the Indictment Of.
Secretary Lindelie.
Secretary of the Enforcement League
and the Charge on Which He
Is Arraigned.
What is the Tenor of the Comments
Made in aud About the City
of Grand Forks.

(From the Grand Forks Herald.)
A great furry was caused in the city
yesterday by the action of the grand
jury in returning six indictments
against Andrew Lindelie, the secre-
tary Of the state enforcement league.
The indictments were. returned all in
a bunch. AS Mr.. Lindelie was in the
court room at the time awaiting the
action of the. grand jury, he was at
once arrested, but was practically not
in custody at all, as bonds were
promptly furnished in the sum of>$2,-
100. He will be arraigned in the dis
trict court this morning and will be
represented by Bosard & Bosard.
Two of the indictments returned
are for perjury before the grand jury
in connection with the receiving of
the sum of $500 in August, 1898, from
F. J. O'Leary, who was at that time
or shortly before that time accused of
running a blind pig at Larimore.
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jury that he received no money from
O'Leary. The other count for per-
jury was in connection with returning
the $500 to O'Leary a few days ago,
which he testified he did not do.
The third indictment was for extor-
ton in connection with receiving the
money from O'Leary under the prom
Use that he would not be prosecuted
for running a pig at Larimore.
The fourth indictment was for COM
pounding the crime of selling intoxi-
eating liquors contrary to law, the
latter in connection with the place
run by n Olson at Grafton. Ben
Franklin, acting for Olson, being one
Of the witnesses in this case, and
swearing that he had given Secretary
Lindelie the sum of $50 for protection
for Olson.
The fifth Indictment is for attempt
ing to dissuade one. of the witnesses,
Fl. J. O'Leary, from appearing before
the grand jury, which the said O'Leary
says that Mr.. Lindelie returned the
500 to him >O'neary.)
The sixth indictment was for de-
stroying evidence that Mr.. Lindelie
knew was to be brought before the
grand jury, viz: A certain letter that
Indie had written O'Leary about
two years ago in which O'Leary says
he advised him to leave Larimore at
once as the people there, or some of
them, were determined that he should
be prosecuted for selling liquor.
O'Leary claims he paid Mr.. Lindelie
the 500 in the summer of 1898 for
protection for running his pig at Lar
more. That shortly after this time
his place was closed up. That Mr..
Indie, in lieu of the 500 that had
been paid agreed that there should be
no prosecutions in the case, and says
that the letter above referred to was
written by Lindelie as a letter has
been in O'Leary's possession up till
the 10th inst, when he returned it to
Lindelie, when the latter returned to
him the $500 he had received two
years before.
O'Leary says that Lindelie would
not return the money till his letter
was returned to him. O'Leary says
that arrangements We're made for the
exchange of the letter for the money
at a meeting he had with Lindelie by
appointment ON the Minnesota Point
bridge the afternoon of the day in
which the money was turned over.
1t will be noticed that five of the
indictments are in connection with
Lindelie's transactions with OLeary,
the only other case being that in con-
nection with the payment which Ben
Franklin alleges to have made to
Lindelie some time during last August
in lieu of which the latter was not to
prosecute a certain Olson for running
a pig at Grafton. O'Leary, Franklin,
R. B.. Griffith and States Attorney
Geo. A! Bangs were the only witnesses
mentioned in the indictments.
The case has excited intense inter-
est and will be watched by the people
from every portion of the state, as the
word has been passed that an attempt
would be made to indict Mr.. Uindelie.
On account of his position at the head
of the enforcement league he has in
Cured the enmity Of the piggers
throughout the state, and therefore
they have no love for him.
The friends Of Mr.. Lindelie say that
the cases will amount to nothing, and
are the result of combined efforts OF
a number of the piggers, who fur
nished States Attorney Bangs with
the necessary evidence to indict, to
disgrace the secretary of. the enforce
ment league. This, it is said, was
done with the end in view that many
OF the members of the league would be
discouraged from prosecuting the
work with the vipor that has haan