The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-17

| who was in charge OF the Ccle County
| Grand Jury could not serve n subpoena on
the Lieutenant Governor. who was in JEFF.
ferson City and a witness before thai
] Grand Jury Wednesday night
Telephone communication with Attorney
| General Crow was resorted to Immediately
! The Attorney General stated that Lee had
[ promised him. in the presence of Assistant
/ Attorney General Sam B. Jeffries. TO come
! TO ST. Louis yesterday morning.
7 Circuit Attorney Folk had sent n blank
subpoena to Attorney General Crow to
serve on Lee. in addition to the one sent
to the Sheriff on Monday. Crow explained
| that he did not serve this subpoena, or
! cause it to be served. after Lee had told
him that he was coming to st. Louis. as
| he did not want Lee to believe that he
doubted his word.
When the telegraphic advices that Lee
instead OF coming to st. Louis boarded a
train and went to Kansas City were re-
ceived. Circuit Attorney Folk at once called
up Prosecuting Attorney Roland Hughes at
Kansas City and requested that he make an
effort to have a subpoena served on Lee.
In the afternoon a telegram came from
Hughes stating that Lee had been reported
as having departed for Colorado on a morn
ing train.
LEE is FOUND BY
KANSAS CITY REPORTER.
Later information. however. was to the
effect that a Kansas City newspaper man
had found Lee on a street car IN that city.
He reported this TO the authorities there
and subpoena was served on Lee just as
he was boarding Chicago and Alton train
bound for CHICAGO.
When the subnoena was served Lee IS
reported to have said that he would come
30 st. Louis His arrival in this city will
be awaited with interest by Circuit At
torney Folk. His testimony Is needed badly
by the local Grand Jury TO complete Ger
tain lines OF investigation. OF this Lee
seems to be well aware and his reported
effort 20 get away IL attributed to this
fact.
Senator Frank Costello OF De Kalb
County is said to have been the most i'm
portant witness who appeared before the
Grand Jury yesterday.
Senator Costello was member of the
Criminal Jurisprudence Committee in the
Senate two years ago. He also voted
against the passage of the alum bill at the
last session His testimony is believed to
have been similar to that OF Senator Or
chard on Wednesday. although IL is not
thought that he knew nearly as much CT
Importance as the Howell County Senator.
Representative Arthur Chapman followed
Costello into the Grand Jury room- He is
supposed to know something about text
book legislation.
Moses Seches of 81. Louis Is another i'm
portant witness. Seches was questioned as
TO his knowledge of the slot machine biz.
This measure was intended to repeal the
clause in the bill now in force which makes
1t felony to operate slot machines
% One report has It that 5000 was put IN
to influence legislation on this bill. but per-
sons in position TO know have said that
this amount alone was raised In Kansas
City. and 1t Is believed that when all tha
facts are known 1t viii be found that even
more money was spent on this bfll than
Kelly put up TO influence the alum Iegis- |
lation.
The bill was still pending in the Legis-