The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-01
CHARGED WITH BRIBERY.
Three Former Members of the st.
Louis Municipal Assembly Ar
rested Npd Bonded.
OTHER ARRESTS EXPECTED TO FOLLOW.
Result of the Grand Jury's Probing
Into an Alleged Corrupt Dear
Whereby the Suburban Railway
Ca. Was to Pay s135.O0O for Ger
tain Regulation.

st. Louis. Jan. 2s.-Charles Kratz-
Emil 4. ~Meysenburg and John ~
Murrcll, members of the municipal
assembly. under a former administra-
ton. were arrested. Monday after
noon, on bench warrants charging
them with bribery. 1t is charged that
they. with other members of the city
council and house of delegates. en-
tered into an agreement with an
| agent for the Suburban Railway Co.,
in October, 1900, to pass certain de-
sired franchises for the sum of Sl3j'-
600 which, it is claimed, was placed
in safe-deposit vaults.
Indictments have been found
against Kraft, Meysenburg and Muir
rell and will be returned with the
final report of the grand jury within
the next few days. Circuit Attorney
Folk says hat the Investigation
brings to light one OF the largest
bribery plots which has ever been I'M
covered in st. Louis. Besides the
three persons indicted Monday, it is
said that there will be ut least six
more. and possibly a dozen Others
implicated in the charges. The in
quiry has only begun, and new evil
dence is being developed al each step
revealing new m
Kratz. Meysenburg and Murrell
were released on $1,000 bonds shortly
after their arrest. The charge of an
officer accepting Il bride is IL felony
punishable by u term in the peniten-
tiary from two to seven years.
. 1t is charged that $4,000, alleged
to have been part of the bride, was
placed m a vault in the Lincoln Trust
Co.. to be distributed among certain
members of the house of delegates II
the event the franchises were grant
ed. 1t is claimed there were two keys
/, to the box. and that one of them Wa'
held by Philip Stock, secretary Of tn
st. Louis Brewing association, a
agent for the Suburban Railroad Co
and the other, it is averred, was he'll
by John X. Murrell, of the house q
delegates.
- 1t is further alleged that $4,000
- was deposited in a box at the Missi'
si9pi Valley Trust Co., to be divide
&c among prescribed members OF III
- city council if the ordinances gran
W. ing the right of way were passe'
- Stock held the key to this boN, ais
T.. as representative of the Suburha
10 Railroad Co., and il is said the oth'
was held by John e. Brinkneyer. ;
IN agent and representative of Counci
- man Kraft. The Suburban bill WI
an passed in both the house OF delegate
:, and the council. but was knocked On
b in the circuit court, and later IN II
&c supreme court, on appeal.
g Circuit Attorney Folkanda commit
tee of grand jurors visited the tv
trust companies. having procured Il
KEYS. and found the money in II
ES boxes as they had been directed.
was in crisp new bills, tied i'll pae
ties ages, After counting the money Il
committee returned to the 70
courts. and the indictments folloWe
At Circuit Attorney Folks reque'
de- Judge Wood issued an impoundi
my order commanding the two tru
ut companies to preserve the boxes Il
the their contents undistlybed so tn
they may be held for evidence in t
Iila criminal court when the cases COZ
vas tn trinl.