The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-02-04
jerome: IS STUDYING
INSURANCE SCANDAL
Will Announce Monday Whether
He Will Prosecute the
Men Involved.

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Men Involved.
Special TO The journal
New York, Feb. s.-Whether District
Attorney jerome is to prosecute insur.
ance men criminally is to be disclosed
Monday when
Jerome Studies Mr.. Jerome will
return to his Of
the flee from his.
country home at
Insurance Cases Lakeville, Conn,
after weeks
study of the evidence adduced by Mr..
Hughes in the Armstrong investiga-
ton. The encouragement is expected
on his return to make definite announce.
ment OF his intentions. Mr.. Jerome,
when he went away week ago, car
ried with him the testimony given be-
fore the Armstrong committee, includ-
ing such testimony as bears directly
upon acts committed by the big insur
ance companies which came within the
pale of the penal code and on which
criminal action could be based. It is
limited that District Attorney Jerome
has manifested considerable curiosity
concerning "Judge' Andrew Hamil-
ton, and the movements of that man
both before and after his departure
for Europe. Mr.. Jerome is said to be-
lieve with many others that the
"judge' could shed considerable light
along certain lines in a grand jury in
quiry. Tho Mr.. jerome will engage
help outside the district attorneys Of
flee to assist in any prosecutions that
may follow grand jury investigation,
he will prosecute in person all cases in
which indictments may be found. The
report that he will engage Charles f..
Hughes as an assistant is without foun-
dalton. w.
Colonel H. @. Cecil Kitchener, bro
Their of the famous British general, is
stopping with cousin at New Brigh-
-.% ~ - ton, Staten Is
Kttchener's Cousin land, for a few
days, preparato-
Attracted ~ to going to
.. ~. San Francisco,
to Dowie's Concern where he intends
to embark for
New Zealand on the steamship Sonoma
on Feb. Is. Colonel Kitchener arrived
yesterday on the steamship La Plata,
from the West Indies, where he has
been for twelve years. On board the
La Plata the colonel became much in
terested in young Gladstone Dowie,
son of Elijah Of Zion City. Young
| Dowie explained to the grizzled Brit
| ish warrior the purposes of Zion, and
the colonel promised him that he would
stop over at Zion City when passing
thru Chicago and visit the colony
founded by John Alexander Dowie
now ill with paralysis at Kingston
Jamaica. Colonel Kitchener's interest
In Zion City was marked, and from his
many interviews with Dowie's Gun:
KISSED son, it was believed his aat
tention will be more than transient. In
fact, it is rumored that he may become
a. convert to = Elipah = Dowie's teach
ings. e: BEE .
Fl Unless seasickness and rough weather
prevents, Mrs. Potter Palmer, who
sailed for Liverpool today on the Cam,
F. ~-.- pania;lSwill spend
Mrs. Potter Palmer most Of her time
playing bri d &C.
to Study Mrs. Palmer re
t al n ed M + 8
"Bridge' on Liner George Bingham
| o. noted bridge ex
pert Of Chicago, to coach her in the
! game. Mrs. Palmer is busy woman
and she said before the Campania sailee
today that she did not know Of better
I oh ri
ship than at bridge. Il. -. .@'.z-
Mrs. Craigie, (John Oliver Hobbes)
the novelist, who has been here for sew
eral weeks, started home on the Cam
pania.
, Charles F. Jones, valet for illWian
x. Rice, whose confession was the rea
evidence upon which Albert T. Patric]
was convicted O
Witness Against murder, has dis
appeared. N ey
A., Patrick affidavits fro r
.@'.~. Texas made b,
Missing in Texas friends Of Jone
accuse him Of pei
f iurv. Without Jones the district atto1
: news office is powerless to ccsnba
Patrick s 0HOTL lOT d LOW Gi1ol. IL
l admitted if Jones cannot be found Their
3 is no way to offset the afidavits in be
, half of Patrick for new trial, an
: that there, can be no prosecution o
Q Patrick. From Texas comes repor
: that Jones left his home several week
ago, after he had been accused OF
r serious offense. The report from Hous
| ton is that Jones took to the woods an
t is in hiding. A posse for three week
l has been hunting for Jones. The feel
: ing is SO intense that if he is caught
l lynch law may direct immediate actor
:; A messenger from local expires
q company that delivers pay-checks TO
!. City Paymaster Zimmerman has disaI
: - peared with tn
: Messenger Gone pay checks of II
- ..Eh, school teachers i
= With schools in Lon
), Island City. TIL
Teachers Checks name Of the mes
? senger has no
= been made public. Payment OF tn
: checks has been stopped at the ban
ond a SEARCH for the missing mesSenpe