The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-12-20
.L|NDEuE TRIAL Is BEGUN
WAS NORTH DAKOTA ENFORCE
MENT LEAGUES STATE EX-
ECUTIVE AGENT
CHARGE MADE IS PERJURY
III Connection With Alleged Accent
ance of n Bride of 500 From
SalOOnkeeper OLeary,
of LarinOre.

GRAND FORKS, N. D., Dec 19.-Dis-
Crlct court reconvened yesterday morn
ing. The court room was packed, as it
was generally known that the cases Of
the state against Secretary Lindedie Of
the state enforcement league. would be
called States Attorney Bangs and his
assistant, w. L. t Goodison, conducted
the prosecution, and Bosard & Bosard
appeared for the defendant, and it ap-
peared from the outset that the case
was to be vigorously prosecuted and that
the defense was to be just as vigorous
Mr.. Bangs announced that the first case
to be tried would be the indictment for
perjury. There was a lively tilt between
the attorneys at this time, the attorneys
Tor the defense insisting on the dismissal
OF the case against IIindelie for eXtortion
before the case against him for perjury
was taken up, On the ground that it was
IN connection with the case for extort ON
that it was alleged the perjured evidence
was given. After some discussion the
case for eXtortion' was dismissed and the
perjury case taken up
1t took from 10 a. m. till $50 o M to
dispose of the preliminaries and secure a.
jury, as all the jurymen We're questioned
closely. The jury as finally secured was
as follows: R. B. Caldwell, Thomas Por-
Ter, ". N. Dickson, w. 2. Wilson, o. ].
Barnes, c. G. Arnold, James Twamley,
Hugh Easement, Patrick Began, Peter
Stoughton, II. H. Johnston and w. F.
Hennesy.
The first witness called by the prosecu-
ton was NJ. c. Gaulke, who was one of
the grand jurors who returned the in
ddCtments. Mr.. Gaulke testified that the
defendant had been duly sworn: that he
had been asked as to whether he had re-
ceiVed any money from O'Leary, the
chief witness for the state, and that Lin
dele had declared he had never received
money from O'Leary at any time. Later
in the day he said Jindelie admitted that
O'Leary had left $100 on the table at his
house. Martin Johnson, 2. K. Ramsey,
Fred Burgett, Henry Steanberg and
George H. Wilder, all of whom served
on the grand jury, were next called in
the order named, and they testified to
practically the same thing as the first
witness. In cross examining the Witness
es it seemed to be the purpose of the at.
tOrneyS for the defense to bring out the
fact that though the money had been left
at Lin6elie's house, which was not de-
MED, it was not accepted by the de-
PENDANT, and was left under protest.
After the six grand jurors had been
examined the prosecution called F. j.
OLeary, who said that in August of
1885, he came from Larimore, where he
was in business, to Iindelies house in
this city for the purpose of seeing if he
could not be protected in selling liquor,
providing he paid for it. He said that
after a consultation with Lindelie he
gave the latter 500 ard that the latter
promised to do what he could for him,
and further promised to notify him by
letter # other members of the league
should attempt to start any action
against him. Shortly afterwards, he
says. he received the following letter
from Lindeie, the signature "Jack'' be-
ing the one that had been agreed upon:
The committee demands action against
YOU and your partner right away. | can
rot prevent it. There is strong evidence
against you, sworn to by good men,
What day warrants will be out 90 not
know. As We promised you in Larimore
to give you chance to avoid arrest L
write this. IF you leave you will be a
free man. If you stay you must go to
Jail. When we concluded to delay action
to give you a chance to look after your
claim we thought the committee also
would let you off easy, but when the
committee will force you to the wall We
can have nothing to say and cannot do
ANYTHING. The rumor is that you have
been bOOt-legging; that accounts for the
pommittee's hostility. Jack.
AS to recent events, O'Leary testified
that he had arrived in the city a short
time ago, and that some of his friends
had notified Lindelie that he was in
town, and that he Nindelie) had better
see him, as the latter might be called as
witness DeIore the grand jury lie
says that a meeting was arranged, and
that he told Lindelie he thought he should
receive his 500 back. He said that Linde-
lie had agreed to return the money If
O'Leary would return to him the letter
O'Leary agreed to do this, and later in
the evening went to Lindelie's residence,
returned the letter and received his 800,
and at once turned il over to States At
torney Bangs. He also stated that at
the time Lindelie gave him the money
he had stated he was to leave at once for
Duluth, and that he was not to testify
before the grand jury.