The St. Louis Republic., 1904-07-01

decisions in the Lehman and Hartmann
cases and Edmund Bersch decided to plead
guilty. Gutke and Kelly likewise deter
mined to throw themselves on the mercy
of the court and tell all they knew.
From Gutke Circuit Attorney Folk re-
ceived partial confirmation of the reports
lie had already received as to who paid
Kelly the money to get out of town. Then
came the testimony of Kelly and his wife,
which is said TO have completed the chain
of evidence and resulted in the Indictment
OF Butler
Guikes confession included the name OF
a prominent broker from whom lie said
he had received $1,000, which was TO be a
partial payment to the combine, for the
passage Of the lighting bill. which was 20
i,et them $i7.5Oo. This money. Gutke says,
he returned to Butler. John X. Murrell.
+. +. Murrell, John Helms. William NJ.
Tamelyl Geprge h. Robertson and Otto
Schumacher nave often; repeated how,
Kelly went TO Buffers office. got the ST.
S". and took IL in a carriage to Julius
. Lehmann's. home Complete, verihcation
ef their statements has now been Supplied
to- !tttpit.. Attorney Folk and the Grand,
. jury by Gutke and Eeuy .
.:'-'GRAND JURY ADJoURNS
The Grand Jury adjourned Yesterday 20
July 6 when il is expected To make a par
tial report. which will include the indict-
ment against Butler and possibly two
others. one charging perjury and the other
compromising felony or bribins a wit
ness, ... ...-.
The perjury Indictment. It is said Is
made possible by the testimony given by
the man interested in kelly's departure
iwllo. Was called 10 testify as 10 the city
lighting deal. This man. it is said testi-
fed :hat he knew nothing of the deal. had
not paid Kelly a cent. and waS not inter-
ested in the matter one way or the other.
The other bribery Indictment is said to
charge a man close to Ed Butler with as
sisting him in his alleged transaction with
Kelly which Jed the former House Speaker
to decide that a trip to Europe would be to
his advantage ! -; ).
Personsat the. Four Courts, familiar with
-the various phases of the Doodle prosecu-
tious recall how Ed Butler. when Kelly's
absence was subject of general conver-
sation. often repeated that he knew moth
ing of. Kelly's wherea bouts.
FELL OUT WfTsH EEELY.7
why. Kelly and have not been friends
for two years" said Butler one day to
Four Courts reporter. We haven't spoken
to each other for some time, and it is not
would aid him to escape"
'Et That stinie it was generally believed
that kSlfN.hadi Runaway to evade arrest,
land tne fsct that he was being paid to
remain out of the city until the statute OF
limitation would shied the real bribe- -2ivers
had not become known
But the fact remains that Buffers
bookkeeper, and man who probably
owed city contract he held to Buffers
influence. returned to the United States.
with Kelly on the steamship, and that
one of Buffers sons went to PhiIadel-,
phia, where Kelly: was arrested. and ac-.
companied the former Delegate, Mrs. Kel
ly and Detective John McGrath to st.
Louis
Kelly spent some time in the office of
Circuit Attorney Folk yesterday after
noon. and was then taken to jail, where
JaHcr Dawson assigned him the cell that
had been occupied by Lehman and Hart
mann,: which is not far from that in
which Bill Rudolph is a prisoner.
FIVE YEARS THE MAXIMUM
Bribing witness, upon conviction, is
punishable by a maximum penalty of
five years in the Penitentiary. Ed Butler
was recently acquitted by a jury at Full
ton and freed by a Supreme Court de-
tision -on charges of bribery which called
for a maximum punishment of seven
years.
The new indictment against Butler is
brought under section No 2041, chapter
No. Is. of the Revised Statutes of Mis-
souri,. 1t provides that any person who
may directly orr indirectly. induce an
tother Person to absent himself. avoid
any degai process.s or to withhold his ieyi-
dence ip any case wherein there is
prosecution for felony. shall be guilty of
Felony. "''-'
The first indictment of Butler charged
that he offered $500 to Doctor II. n.
Chapman. member of the Board of
Health. to vote for Buffers interests on
the garbage contract. Doctor Chapman
refused to accept the money.
Butler was tried at Columbia. found
guilty and sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for three years. The case was ap-
lower courts finding reversed on techni-
cality as to the legality of the boards ac-
ton on the garbage contract.
Butler was next tried at Fulton, having
taken another change of venue, on the
charge of bribing the House combine to
vote for the lighting BILL He was acquit-
ted on this charge by the jury and came
home free from all bribery charges, but
destined, ts.remains $50 oIfly-untif Kelly and
Gutke decided to unbosom themselves as
to the Doodle transactions.
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