The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-12-11
EIGHT MORE WANTED
OF the Good Citizens Of Mich.
gan for the Water Deal
"Shenanigan."
ONE Is AN Ex-sTATE SENATOR
Who Is Charged with PeEjury-Press
Well Represented in the War
rants Issued.


ter scandal has been opened to the
public Judge Haggerty, of the police
court, has signed warrants for the ar
rest of seven more prominent men i'm
plicated in the scandal by the confess
sion of ex-City Attorney Liant K. SAILS
bury, and by his testimony at the po-
lice court examinations thus far held.
An eighth warrant was issued today.
AEen Named in the Warrant
The list of men for whom warrants
were issued is as follows: Charged
with conspiracy. Clark Gproat, for
mer manager of the refunct Grand
Rapids Democrat; Charles S. Burch,
manager of the Grand Rapids Even
ing Press; Eugene u. Conger, man
ager of the Grand Rapids Herald; j.
Russell Thomson, ex-reporter for the
Grand Rapids Evening Press; Isaac
E. Lamoreaux, ex-city clerk. Charged
with attempting subornation Of per-
jury-William F. Mcknight, attorney,
who was Democratic candidate for at
torney general in 1902. Charged with
perjury-Ex-State Senator George e.
Nichols, of Ionia, Mich, attorney-at-
law. The name of the eighth man has
not transpired.
Charges Against the Men.
The warrants for conspiracy in the
famous water deal charge Charles S.
Burch, of The Evening Press; J. Clark
Sproat, of the old Morning Democrat;
e. D. Conger, of The Herald; ]. Rus.
sell Thomson, ex-reporter of The Even
ing Press, and Isaac F. LamOreaux,
ex-city clerk, with accepting money
from Salisbury for assisting him to try
during the summer of 1900 to secure
contract with the city to furnish it's
Inhabitants with water from Lake
Michigan. Salisbury swears that he
gave Burch $4,000; Sproat, $1,000;
Conger, $4,000; Thomson, $500, and
Lamoreaux, 81 800, Of a 100000 Doodle
fund placed in his hands by III. A.
Taylor, a New York capitalist, to pro-
cure a contract with the city.
Cases of Mcknight and Nichols.
William +. Mcknight is charged
with attempting to suborn f. HI. Gar
man, one of the peoples witnesses, to
swear falsely in tho trial Of Salisbury
in Novemger, 1901, when the latter
was convicted in the superior court of
accepting a b1-be in connection with
the water deal. 1t is charged ON Oct.
26 Mcknight conspired with Salisbury,
Nichols and Thomas F. McGarry to
offer Witness Garman, il the Living
stone hotel, 81, $50. The warrant against
Nichols charges him with perjury al
legged to have been committed Nov. %,
1901, when he was a witness in the
Salisbury case At that time he was
questioned relative to the alleged at
tempt to bride T. III. Garman, and
swore in denial Of the entire story Of
Garman He was himself arrested up
ON the charge of bribery and was ac-
quilted after a trial in the Ottawa
county circuit court at Grand Haven.
SIX PLEAD GUILTY OF DOODLE.
They Ask an Immediate Sentence, but the
Judge Wants a Little Time.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Dec. Z. - AS
was expected, six ex-city officials who
had waived examination in police court
on the charge of accepting brides from
ex-City Attorney Liant X. Salisbury,
went into the superior court and plead
ed guilty. Judge Newnbam deferred