The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-09
Reported to the Combine.

sage of the bill.
Reported to the Combine.
'T reported the various negotiations
to the combine meetings, and was in
structed by the combine from time to
time what to do. When the price was
agreed upon they designated me as
the person to hold the key to the box
containing the $4,000, which we were
to get when the bill was passed and
signed by the mayor.
1.-The deposit of the money, the
amounts and the conditions were duly
reported by me to the combine meet
ing. am not permitted to make the
operations on this point public at this
time. The object of the combine was
to control legislation for the benefit of
members of the combine. Shortly be-
fore the suburban bill the combine
sold their votes on the lighting bills
for SAT 900.
"This money was handled by Kelly,
and was paid to the members OF the
combine at a meeting assembled for
that purpose Each member of the
combine received $4,000. 1 was pres
ent and saw the money paid to the va
rious parties. These are only two in
stances, but there are others, evidence
of which is in the possession of the
states attorney. These two instances
show, however, what has been going
on in the municipal assembly.
So Old it Wasn't Crime.
1--WE did not look upon what we did
as serious crime, as it had gone on
so long. 1t was not regarded by those
who participated in it as morally
wrong. Until the present circuit attor-
ney took office no sincere effort was
made apparently to punish what was
being done as crime.
II have lived in st. Louis all my life
and have many friends here. l have
been honest heretofore in all matters.
and have done no man wrong, and
thought I would not take dollar from
any person unlawfully, but the practice
of the combine in the assembly taking
brides was so frequent that l went
along with the tide and did not real
ize the enormity of the offense, and
my conscience was scared in that re-
gard.
"These Doodle Investigations have
made me see the crime in all it's hide
BUSINESS. No matter what happens to
me, I will do all can to aid the cir
cult attorney to break up the Doodle
gang that so long has controlled af-
fairs in this city, and amend as far
as l can for my awful mistake.
Gang Puts Up a Fight.
upon my indictment and COM
mencement of the Doodle prosecutions,
the gang got together and decided to
fight the case. The money raised was
used to employ attorneys. Three of
the combine acted as coachmasters,
or drillmasters, for the witnesses who
were to appear before the grand jury,
though it seems they were not very
confident. 1 communicated with Mr..
Foulk through good friend of mine
who is not a member Of the gang, but
Mr.. Foulk refused to make any terms
whatever or give any promise as to
what he would do in case l should re-
turn. 1 then determined to make an
unconditional surrender"
1t is stated that ]. K. Murrell re-
turned to st. Louis last Friday and
surrendered. The fact was kept secret
until today, when the members of the
grand jury were called together by
Circuit Attorney Foulk, and Murreh
was brought before the body. Muir
] relps confession was read to the jury
and resulted in the issuance of war
rants for the members of the alleg-
ed combine.