New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-28
ARREST ACCUSED JUROR.
WILL SUIT VERDICT CASE.
Charged, scith Accomplice, of Mas
ing Deal to Sell influence.

Leo Cohen. Juror No B IN the O'DonnelI will
case. now being heard IN Par. XIII, Special
Term Supreme Court before Justice Belts and
q jury. was arrested by Detectives Stransky and
Cooney yesterday. charged with offering to get
a verdict from the jury for $1,000 Herbert L.
Kamber who said that he lived at No 152
Henry-st-. alleged to be the man who conducted
the negotiations. arrested at the same time
similar charge Both locked up at
Police Headquarters and will be arraigned to-
day before Justice Olmstead, who issued ths
warrants.
On Monday. November a. three brothers.
John. Anthony and Andrew, OF the late
Neal ODonnell. assisted by a sister and a niece,
both named Rebecca O'Donnell. joined issue in
the Supreme Court to get the estate Of Neal
O'Donnell and his brother Hugh. The two
brothers lived to be octogenarians at No. w
Henry-st. They amassed more than S1.OoO.oOO
in the cooperage business under the firm name OF
the H & ". O'Donnell Cooperage Company. The
aged brothers made mutual wills. and Hughs
death preceded Meals by about two weeks
After making small beQuests to relatives, the
residue of the estates divided into 25O equal
parts, OF which Manhattan College, the DE La
Sale Institute and the Sacred Heart Academy
were to receive twenty each. the remainder
going to Other institutions in smaller proper
shares TO devote to the propagation OF the
Roman Catholic faith. For years. 1t is said. the
brothers had been spending more than $4,000
annually in charity.
The contestants declare that Neal not
competent to make a will at the time Of his
death.
Rumors were rife in the county court
house last week that one of the juries
there under suspicion According
to Assistant District Attorney Cans.
in the middle of the week a man who said he
Herbert L. Kamber went to the office of
Thomas J. Bracken, attorney for Andre7y
O'Donnell, and declared that he wished to retain
Mr.. Bracken IN a matter in which he was in
terested. He then told Andrew O'Donnell Mr.,
Cans says that the will jury could be
fixed" The meeting was arranged for Friday,
and Pinkerton detective named Mason was in
troduced to Kamber as Martin O'Donnell," OF
Michigan, one of the collateral relations Who
were furnishing the money for the prosecution or
the suit Mr.. Cans says that Martin O'Don-
torney's office was Informed of the trap, and it
was sprung under the supervision or Jerome's
men,
Martin O'DonnelI" demanded that he see the
juror who could be fixed" and have personal
talk with him before he paid the money
The detective and Andrew ODonnell declare
that they hired room at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. and that Kamber took into their presence
Leo Cohen. O'Donnell and the detective assert
that Cohen said that he sure that he could
bring others Of the jury over TO his way of
thinking. and that the job could be completed
for 81 600, he to settle with Kamber.
Martin O'Donnell" suggested another meet
ing at the Grand Union Hotel yesterday. All
kept the engagement and watching were De-
conversation the detectives arrested Cohen and
Kamber.