The Nome nugget., 1902-04-30
lena WaItOG Thinks She Has
 Made d Discovery.
AFTER THE JURORS
Who Served at the Recent Trial of the Wild Goose Co. Against Walton, French and Others A Number of AffidavitS Filed Yesterday.

If uIiidavit> filed yesterday by Lena he district court have the desired effect, the ,a>e of the Wild Goose Mining & Trading Co. vs. Wallon. French, ct al, inyolNing No. 10 Ophir creek, hil- fair to be reopened.
 The a1i lavit', four in number allege tha, the jurors during the trial of the case were guilty of grave iudiscretions anI that they created great scandal by indulging in intC xicating liquors while they were in charge Of hailitf~. two of them at least leaving the jury room. one of them disguised, and going down town in charge of Il hailiff to buy to- bacco.' This. according to an alliia\i was Juror William Touiey; he other juror who went to his hone and stayed lJ minutes was John Kirk. An atli- davit on fife state, that the jurors while in charge of lailitT in the Golden Gate bOtel unhinged a door and secured punc., from q punch bowl made out of d block of ice. and which had been used by the Elks' Club at an entertainment given the previous evening.
 According to the affidavit of Lena Walton the jurors themselves. or some oi them. gave the snap away Miss Walton states that she had had talk with Herman Piper, F. IS. Dumar and other jurors aud they "admitted that punch had been used hy them in the jury room aud that other things oc- cured whish should gos have occurred Sne a,sU avers tf1r NIT. Lange. aIso d juror and Mr. Dumar stated to her that "if it had not been intimatod that they would have been accused of bribery that they would not have consented to verdict in favor of the plaintiff"
 Miss Walton. for herself and l.. II. French and other defendants asks that the jurors be examined in open court as to what occurred while the julOr, were in he jury room during the pro eres> of the lr,;.l. Sue also states, to make her case stronger, that A. r.. Suuderhauf has received information that l.. II. French has discovered tie W hcl about> Of i"hn W. s>tensti (one of tie men who it Wal shown at the recent trial had done the assessment Leo l3alrsch, and A. r. Murdaunt (a
 
 ttStIIN that the work alleged to have been done in 1899 was not done.
 Then comes C. l.. ReckmeNer and in an affidavit states thal he overheard d conversation on Aprll iY in the Inter- national saloon between Juror William Tooley and other persons whom Reck- meyer dld not ku, ". Tooey i-alleged to have stated that during the time the jury were locked up in ,he Golden Gale hotel, one evening they found in the room to which they were taken. cube of ice, hulOwcd out. in which there wa, liquor, that they drank he liquor and it being pleasant to the taste they all became more or les, unuer the influence of the seductive drink.
 5. l.. Read. also by affidavit. relates d story similar in many respect, 10 that told by EeclImeNer. lie also overheard Juror 1oolcy in the International saloon. b,ti Mir. Read >a!S that Iocle! stated that the puu.h in the ice cube was in an ad Joinlng room ln the hote! and that the jurors took the pin, out oi the hln9t ; of tie GtCr Ill urGer to get to the punch and slake their thirsC>, which II would appear all of them had no difficulty in ''iNlsinT.' IL k also averred that loUlcy stated that alter considerable importunin- a hailif o"r night took hun ('ro"le!l down town 50 that lie could get some tobacco, the baiIltI first requtrlng I.oley to 'dis- gui,e his lace.
 An affidavit made by A. F.. Sunder- huuf allege, that Juror John ktrk. who conducts d barber shop on Front street, told him that 'there was plenty of l quor in the jury room;' that the bail if also took him to his home where he stayed b minutes CT so: that there was an agreement among the jurors as to