The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-08
Warrants Issued for Seven Men Last
Night and Another to Be Served
To-day, IL Possible.
CHARGED WITH CORRUPTION
CONSPIRACY, PERJURY AND SUB
ORNATION OF PERJURY ALLEGED.
All Said to Have Accepted Brides in
Connection with the Notorious
Water Deal.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Dec. 7.-Chapter
two Of the Lake Michigan water scandal
was opened to the public tonight. Judge
Haggerty of the Police Court signed war
rants fo- the arrest of seven more prom
inent men implicated in the scandal by the
confession of ex-City Attorney Liant K.
Salisbury and by his testimony at the Police
Court examination thus far held. An
eighth warrant will be issued early to-
morrow. The list of men for whom war
rants were issued is as follows:
Charged with conspiracy-J. Clark Sproat,
former manager of the defunct Grand
Rapids Democrat Charles S. Burnes, man.
ager Of the Grand Rapids Evening Press;
Eugene d. Conger. manager of the Grand
Rapids Herald j. Russell Thomson, former
reporter for the Grand Rapids Evening
Press; Isaac F. Lamoreaux, former city
clerk.
Charged with attempting subornation of
perjury-William +. Mcknight, attorney,
who was Democratic candidate for attor-
ney general in 1902
Charged with Perjury-Ex-Stat Senator
George E. Nichols, Ionia, Mich. attorney at
law.
The warrants were issued on the COM
pidiHt Oh fTOSecutOr Brown, DaSed on the
testimony of ex-City Attorney Liant E.
Salisbury. 1t is the intention Of the prosecu-
ton to make the arrests some time to-
morrow IL the persons whose names are
mentioned do not appear voluntarily in the
morning.
The warrants for conspiracy in the fam
Gus water deal charge Charles s. Burch Of
the Evening Press; j. Clark Sproat, of the
old Morning Democrat; z. d. Conger. of
the Herald; j. Russell Thomson, former re-
porter OF the Evening Press, and Isaac +.
Lamoreaux, former city clerk, with accept
ing money from Salisbury for assisting him
to try during the summer OF 1900 to secure
contract, with the city to furnish its in
habitants with water from Lake Michigan.
Salisbury swears that he gave Burch 5000;
Sproat $17,500; Conger, $4,000; Thomson,
$500, and Lamoreaux. N,500, of a 500 900
Doodle fund placed in his hands by H. A.
Taylor. a New York capitalist, to procure a
contract with the city.
William T. Mcknight Is charged with at
tempting to suborn F. H. Garman, one
In the tria, of Salisbury in November. 1901.
when the latter was convicted I'm the
Superior Court Of accepting bride in con-
nection with the water deal. 1t is charged
Salisbury, Nichols and Thomas McGarry to
offer Witness Garman. in the Livingstone
Hotel. $3.50.
The warrant against Nichols charges him
with perjury alleged to have been committed
Nov. %. 1901. when he was a witness in the
Salisbury case. At that time he was ques-
toned relative to the alleged attempt to
bride +; H Garman and swore in denial of
the entire story of Garman. He was him.
self arrested upon the charge of bribery and
was acquitted after a trial in the Ottawa
county Circuit Court at Grand Haven.
The maximum penalty on conviction for
conspiracy is 5000 fine or Imprisonment for
one year In the county Jail, or both, in the
discretion of the court.