Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-09
ST. LOUIS BOODLEISM
Given Away by Man Who Seems
10 Know of What He Is
Talking.
MURRELL THE ABSENT Is RETURNED
Tells a Story to Scare the Worlds
Fair People and Cause Them
to Sit Up Nights.

St. Louis. Sept. 9.-In connection
with the alleged Doodle combine of
members of the house of delegates it
developed today that the oath had
been administered to each of the
members of the combine, a copy of
the oath to be given TO Circuit Attor-
ney Folk and the grand jury. In TAX
ing the oath the party solemnly
swears to vote and act with the com
bine whenever and wherever ordered
to do so. and not to divuIge any Sc
crets of the combine to any outsider
under penalty of forfeiture of life.
Shortly after noon Edmund Bersch
was taken into custody. He was
lodged in Jail in default of $4,000
bail, as were also John II. Schnettler,
j. J. Hannigan. John Helms, Otto
Schumacher and Charles Gutke, who
spent last night at their homes in
custody of deputy sheriffs. Former
Delegate w. NJ. Tamblyn is under ar
rest in Cleveland, Ohio.
st. Louis. Sept 81. X. Murrell,
formerly member of the lower house
of the municipal assembly OF this city,
who fled to Mexico last spring after
being indicted for bribery in connec-
ton with the alleged boOdling opera
tionS of that body. has returned ana
told what he knows to the grand jury.
Warrants have been issued for the az
rest of eighteen more alleged boodlers.
MurreII Will Tell All He Knows.
In statement made by MurrelI for
publication he says: L have sur
rendered Internationally to Circuit At
Il how n a
full confession to him. l am not per-
mitted to give the details of the evil
dence that l have put the circuit at
torney in possession of. This will all
come out on the trials. and / am will
ing To 20 on the stand and tell all
know. | held the key to the box in the
Lincoln Trust company containing the
$4,000 bribe money to go to the house
of delegates upon the passage of the
Suburban bill. This money was put
up as the purchase price for the votes
of the combine, that price having been
agreed upon.
He Did the Negotiations.
''The combine of the house of dele
gates was composed of nineteen men.
When the Suburban matter came up
before the combine | was selected to
negotiate with Philip Stock. the repre-
sentative of the Suburban railway. as
to the best price we could get for our
votes upon the passage of the bill. l
am not permitted to make the opera
tiOnS of the combine on this particular
matter public at this time. The pur-
pose of the combine was to control leg
iSlatiOn and sell legislation for the
benefit of the members of the combine.
Shortly before the Suburban bill, the
combine sold their votes on the light
ing hills for S4T 800 This money was
handled by Kelly. and was paid to the
members of the combine at Il meeting
arranged for that purpose at Julius
Lehmann's house Each member of
the combine received $500.
He Saw the Money Paid.
Il was present and saw that money
paid to the various parties. These are
only two instances. but there are 9th
ers. evidence of which is in the posses
sion of the circuit attorney" 1t is
stated that Murrell has been in the city
since last Friday in the custody of the
circuit attorney The members and
former members of the municipal as
sembly> for whom warrants have been
issued are as follows: Edward f.
Murrell. John II. Schnettler. Charles
+. Kelly. T. f. Albright, George F..
Robertson. Louis Decker. Julius Leh-
mann, John Helms, Charles A. Gutke.
Adolph MADEIRA. II. \. Faulkner. Ed
mund BerSch, Otto Schumacher. John
\. Sheridan, Charles ]. Denny, VIII
liam Tamblyn, ]. !. Hannigan. Emile
Longs Peak are that fully six forest
Hartman. OF these. Robertson.
Schnettler. Helms. Schumacher and
= s&ariffs are looking for the others.