The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-27
LARGE FISH MAY
YET BE LANDED
st. Louis Grand jury Will Report
Next Monday.
MORE INDICTMENTS CERTAIN
BRIBE GIVERS ARE NOT LIKELY
TO GO SCOT FREE.

q T. LOUIS. Sept. 2s.-The June grand
y jury met this afternoon for its
final session. several witnesses
being present 10 testify. 1t is said that
the report of the body will be sent
TO the court next Monday and several
Doodle indictments are expected as
result OF the findings.
The grand jury convened Sept. TO
hear the disclosures of Delegate j. h.
Murrell that revealed the workings or
the house of delegates combine. The
Investigations of the jury. according
TO the Murreii disclosure, have resulted
IN the Indictment of nineteen dele
gates and former delegates and the
arrest of all but six Of the number who
are fugitives from justice.
After Bride Givers.
The grand jury's investigation has
been mainly along the line suggested
by the confession of Murrell, looking
toward the discovery Of the Identity
of the bride givers. the men who are
said to have furnished Delegate Kelly
with the S47, 500 which he is alleged 70
have distributed TO the nineteen mem
bers of the combine whose votes for
the lighting bill were bought.
At the request Of Circuit Attorney
Folk. Judge Douglass, in the criminal
court, this afternoon issued a subpoena
duees tecum, commanding one of the
employees OF James Campbell a Well
known broker, TO bring into court two
checks for sums aggregating S47.5O0,
drawn by him in favor of Ed Butler.
Broker Campbell is out of the city.
These checks, one for $27, 800, the other
for $4,000. are dated Nov. %, 1899. the
day on which the lighting bill was
passed, for which Delegate Charles f.
Kelly is said to have distributed SAL 800
to the house combine at Delegate Ju-
Illus Lehmann's birthday party.
Money Distributed.
Broker Campbell's employee will be
asked 10 explain the purpose for which
the two checks were drawn. John X.
Murrell stated on his return from Mex
leo that at the birthday party SAT 500
had been distributed by Charles f.
Kelly to the house combine, number
ing nineteen members, each receiving
s., 500. On this information Kelly and
several other colleagues of Murrel
were indicted. All are now charged with
bribery, both in this case and in the
suburban bill and safe deposit case.
The canvass of st. Louis banks was
recently made by the committee of
the grand jury 10 save the banks the
inconvenience Of taking all their books
before the grand jury. The checks were
found TO have been duly drawn, paid
and returned TO Campbell.
The lighting bin was passed in the
city council oct q, 1893. and in the
hnnGa Of Aafa re-
ing. Shortly after the passage OF the
bill by the house came the Lehman
birthday party"
Changed Their Notes.
The eighteen members of the house
of delegates who changed their votes
on the bin after its defeat at first,
together with Robertson. who was alb
sent when IL was defeated. but who
voted for its passage, are the same men
who are now indicted on the charge
of accepting the S47.50O bride.
II has been Mr.. Folks endeavor to
secure eonVicting evidence against the
giveFs of the bride. Hence the states
anxiety to find Kelly. who is rated as
of more Importance than the other
fugitives. The bill provided for the
Illumination of the greater part of the
city by incandescent mantle lamps, the
system now in use.
Broker Campbell is out Of the city
at present and just when he will re-
turn is indefinite, according to state
ments made at his Office today.
Judge Valiant of the state supreme
court this afternoon decided the ha-
beas corpus applications of Attorney
Krug.- representing former Delegates
Helms, Schnettler and
for their release from Jail
on reduced bonds. The judge stated
he had no jurisdiction.
Neither Campbell nor his cashier
could be found up to 3 O'Clock. At
office the deputy sheriffs
were told that Campbell was out OF
the city and that Reed had not been
at the Office since yesterday.