The St. Louis Republic., 1902-01-30
AMUSING INCIDENTS IN
GRAND JURY WAITING ROOM.
House of Delegates Members Have q
Long and Profit1ess SieEe--Ex-
Speaker CrOnin's Comment.

speaker SFO01nS comment
well. wouldn't that jar your
1t was Harry Faulkner. eX-member of the
House of Delegates, who addressed the
question to crowd of nlorose-lool1ing in
dividuals who were filing slowly out of the
! Grand jury witness-rooms on the fourth
floor Of the Four Courts at els p. m yes
terday. The morose-looking men were
members of the Municipal Assembly of 1900
1901. They had been segregated in the wit
ness-rooms since 10 o'clock in the morning
and some Of them had put in two days at
this lonesome. dull. uninteresting and TN
profitable occupation without once being
called upon to testify.
Faulkner was one Of these They had 1ust
been notified by Circuit Attorney Folk, in as
cordial and courteous q manner as if he
were inviting them to join him in pink tea
at Forest Park Cottege at Schweici,ari's
expense to go home and come back prompt
ly at 10 o'clock to-day. 1t was when Mr..
Folk had closed the door upon them with
an elaborate bow and a genial smile that
Faulkner recovered his breath sufficiently
to PROFOUND the plaintiye query:
''Well, wouldn't that jar you?'
His companions in anxious misery were
so busily occupied just then in profane
soliloquies and apostrophes that the query
fell on unresponsive ears, and died down
along the gloomy corridors until the echoes
were lost in the jury-rooms in the western
part of the building. Then the hitherto
unavailable witnesses buttoned up their
coat collars around their ears and went
home. some of them, to another tasteless
supper and sleepless night.
Among the witnesses who were sub
poenaed to appear Tuesday. who have not
yet been examined. the investigation by the
Grand Jury of the bribery case is assum-
ing hourly more serious aspect. Those
who have patiently waited the pleasure of
the Grand Jury for two days. and who have
been instructed to report again to-day, are
Messrs. Hannigan. Helms. Schumacher,
Faulkner. Berch, Schnettler and Lehman,
members of the combine in the House of
1S00-19O1. Speaker Kelly, of the present
House, who was also member Of the COM
bine. whose absence was commented on
Tuesday, joined their ranks yesterday.
John P. Sweeney was with them also.
When the Grand Jury resumed business
yesterday morning these Delegates who had
waited so patiently but unsuccessfully for
g summons into the inquisitorial presence
Tuesday expected to be called in right of
the reel and shortly dismissed. As the
hours slipped by without a summons COM
ing for any of them they grew anxious and
the worried look on their faces deepened.
They looked at one another in puzzled sur
prise and hitched their chairs up closer to
the door separating them from the Grand
Jury room. each in the hope that the Cir
cult Attorneys eye would fall on him first
and beckon him within. Finally one Of the
more impatient got up and took a walk
through the corridors and returned in
moment with the information that other
witnesses were being slipped In to the Grand
had evidently been only recently summoned.
Then the delegates looked at each other
In dissusted silence which was broken by