The Forrest City times., 1902-01-31
CHARGED NTH BRIBERY.
Three Former Members of the St Louis Euaicipal Assembly Ar
 rested and Bonded.
OTHER ARRESTS EyPEGTED TO FOLLOW.
Ints Alleged Corrupt Deal Whereby Ibe >sBaPhaR Railway Co Was to Pay sI35.sse=o for Ger tain I~xislatien.

St- LOuis. Jan. %@--C Charles kraJz. Emil <. Nersenburg and John \. Nurreil. members of the municipal
 lSs-rn biy. under former adminiSfra- ton. were arrested. Monday after noon. on bench warrants charging them with bribery II Is charged that they. with other members Of 1he city council and house of delegates. en- tered into an agreement with an agent for the Siberian Railway Co. in October. I9oo. To pass certain de sired franchises for the sum If sIsj.- ooo which. il j. claimed. was placed in safe-deposit vaults.
 Indict tments have been found against kratz, Meysenburg and Nur- rell and will be returned with the final report of the grand jury within the next few days. Circuit Attorney Folk Saxs that the investigation br5ngs to light one of The largest
 bribery plots which has ever been Vn- cofered iH St. Louis. Besides the three persons indicted Monday. il is
 said that there Will be at least SIX more. and possibly dozen others. implicated in the charges- The in ouiry has only begun. and new evi- dencc is being developed at each step
 revealing new names.
 kratz. MeYsenburg and M9rrell
 were released on S5.090 bonds shortly after their arrest. The charge of an
 officer accepting bribe is felony ! punishable by a term in 1he peniten- tiary from two 10 seven years.
 T. k charged that S75.0O0. alleged 10 have been part Of the bribe was placed in vault in the Lincoln Trust
 Co. 5o be distributed among certain members of the house of delegates in the event the franchises were grant ed. II is claimed there were two keys
 10 the box. and that one of them was held by Philip Stock. secretary of the St. Louis Brewing association as agent for the Suburban Railroad Co.,. and the other, II is aFerred. was held
 hv John k. Murrell, of the house of
 delegates.
 ] It is further alleged that Ss0. 900
 was deposited in 8 box at the Nissis- 1 sippi Valley Trust Co. to be divided among prescribed members of the ! city council if the ordinances grant ] ing the right of way were passed. l Stock held the key to this box. also. f as representative Of the Suburban i Railroad Co. and it is said fhe other
 was held by John C. Brinkmeyer. a~ | agent and representative Of Council ! man kratz. The Suburban bill was ! passed in both the house of delegates ! and the council. but was knocked cut ! in the circuit court. and later in the supreme court, on appeal.
 ! Circuit Attorney Folkand q commit
 tee of grand jurors visited the two
 trust companies. having procured the ' keys, and found the money in the l boxes as they had been directed T.
 was in crisp new bills. tied in pack | ages. After counting the money the ! committee returned to the four 1 courts, and the indictments followed Nt Circuit Attorney Folks request.
 Judge Wood issued an impounding order commanding the two trust
 companies to preserve the boxes and
 their contents undisturbed SO that l they may be held for evidence in the | criminal court when the eases come { 10 trial.