The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-10
HEAVY BONDS FOR COOLERS |St. Louis Sensatiy is Growing, : .:f--oh MANY ARREsrsS.RE MADE |
 New Indictme $ Against 10 of the Combine. Total Bail is $45, ,ooo For the Three
 True Bills-Members of the
 Ring Took Iron Clad
MANY ARREsrsS.RE MADE

St. LOUIS, eSpt. S.-Wnen Ju0Ee Doug | lass adjourned court tonight. seven ol the nineteen members of the alleged | poodle combine of the House of Dele gates were still at large and the police l and deputy sheriffs are using their best efforts to find them. Developments ir | the famous case began early and through | out the day came with startling rapidity The most important feature of the days developments was the finding of new in. dictments against eighteen members ol the combine. In addition to the charges of bribery and perjury. in connection with the suburban street railroad deal, the members of the alleged combine now rest under additional indictments charging | bribery. These were found by the grand jury before which J. K. Murrel testified
 today as to tho city lighting scandal ol 1sOO in which each member of the com bine is said to have received $500 1T payment for his services in securing tht l passage of the bill.
 Bonds of S45, 1000.
 Bonds were fixed at $15.000 for each in | dictment, making a total of $i5, OO0 neces' | sary to be secured for the release of any | one of the accused. Early in the day former Delegates J | H. Schnettier, John Helmes. Otto Schu'
 m&her and Charles Gutke and Delegate J. J. Hannigan, who spent the night al | their respective homes in the custody of deputy sheriffs. were locked up in jail
 because of their failure to secure bonds l ~an n,rkl IaNn rota aAA tVY hn nnT | of S3O.0O0 on the first two indictments
 but was soon re-arrested on the bribery | indictment returned today and is still ir | custody, having failed to secure addition | al surety.
 | Ex-Delegate Bersch was taken into GUS | today some time during the forenoon. but | was soon liberated Ed Butler. a wealthy local politician, signing his bond to thu | amount of S45, ,0O0 Butler also wen | surety in like sum for Delegate Charles
 J. IAenny and former Delegate T. E l Albright He also wanted to secure | Gutke's release by filing an additiona bond of $16, 900 but Judge Douglass refused | to let him sign any more.
 Looking For Others. The police and sheriff's deputies are still ! looking for Delegate Charles J. Kelly | former Delegates Emile Hartman, Louis
  man and Harry A. Faulkner. Ahe last named was released on bond yesterday | and the authorities want him on the in. | dictment found today. Falkner has already been convicted on the charge oi perjury in connection with the Subur' ban case and found guilty. He was out | pending an appeal. when Attorney Folke's latest bombshell burst.
 Ex-Speaker of the House of Delegates William Tamblyn. who has been in Cleve- land since Circuit Attorney Folke began
 his crusade, will return to St. Louis having been arrested there today. Former Delegate Adolph Madeira is somewhere in Colorado, where the authorities are searching for him at the request of St Louis officials. Ex-Speaker John K. Mur- rel, Delegate E. Murrel and former Dele
 gate George F. Robertson have turned States evidence and are where Circuit Attorney k'olke can find them when wanted.
 According to his confession Murrel was the go-between the Boodling members of the House of which he had been speaker, and the Representatives of the corpora tions seeking franchises. Although Mur- rel has made a full and free confession of his connection with boodling schemes ] in the House of Delegates since his con
 nection with 1t. duplicating many of his colleagues. there are other deals in which he and they were concerned in which prosecution is barred by the statute of limitation.
 Murrers testimony today. therefore while confined mainly to the methods by which the city lighting bill passed the municipal assembly. also dealt with other measures that had come before the body
 during the existence of the combine. As
 a result some sensational indictments are looked for before the end of the week against persons other than members of the combine
 MT. Folk Talks.
 Prosecuting Attorney Folk. when seen this evening. expressed satisfaction at the progress being made in the fight for pure government in St. Louis.
 He compared the present expose to that of the Tweed ring In the '70s and said he believed that never before. with that exception, had corruption fin public office held such sway as it had here during the past few years. He believed the authori- ties were in a fair way to weed out the element that looked on the public office as a place for personal enrichment MT. Folk said that for many years past the municipal assemblies in St. Louis had been dominated by combines that com pelled the payment Of large sums Of
 money to the members by all who de- sired the passage of bills giving valuable il nchises. Hardly measure went ~ ough without paying tribute. He call ed attention to the oath taken by mem-
 bers of the combine in previous House of Delegates as indicating the extent to
 which they go to gain their ends, Thus
 far. said MT. Folk, the fight has been
 mainly against the brieb-taker. but evil dence is being secured that will be used
 to bring to justice the giver.
 They Took an Oath.
 It developed today that an oath was
 administered to each of the nineteen
 members of the combine. whose identi-
 ty was disclosed by the confession of J..
 K. MurreH yesterday. A copy of the oath has been given to Circuit Attorney
 Folke and the grand jury. It is as fol- lows:
 II do solemnly swear before the AL mighty God that in associa ting myself and becoming a member of this combine I will vote and act with the combine