The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-18
ID TRANSFER CASES
 TO CITY OF CHICAGO
NO INDICTMENTS AT TCLEYELAND IN ALLEGED REPEATING
 MATTER.

Investigation Develops Fact That Court
 in Ohio Was Without Jurisdiction of
 the Alleged Offenses Upon Which
 Testimony Was Given-All Evidence
 Secured to be Turned over to Officials
 at Chicago Where Cases Will be
 Prosecuted.
 Cleveland, O., July 1.-The federal grand jury which has been in session here Investigating alleged violations of the interstate commerce laws and anti-Milroad rebate laws, adjourned this afternoon without bringing in any indictments. The investigation was di- rected particularly concerning the Standard Oil company and the Lake Shore Railroad company, and was the result of testimony of witnesses be- fore the interstate commerce commits sion here recently, in which evidence of alleged relating by the Lake Shore in favor of the Standard oil company had been given. The failure to return indictments here, it is officially stated, was due to the fact that the investiga- tion developed the fact that the court here was without jurisdiction of the al- legged offences upon which testimony was given, and that all of the evidence secured here is to be transferred to the federal officials at Chicago, where the cases are to be prosecuted.
 Following the adjournment of the grand jury District Attorney Sullivan gave out the following statement:
 "On Monday Attorney General Moody and myself met in the United States attirney's office in New York oity, and reviewed the evidence brought before the present grand ury relative to the alleged violations of the federal laws by the Standard Oil com pany in connection with the transport tation and steerage of its products by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern conclusion that the aforesaid testi- mony fixed the legal jurisdiction for indictment and prosecution elsewhere than in the jurisdiction of the north- ern district of Ohio, and special coun- sel, Oliver E. Pagin, confirms our joint opinion in this respect, and thus confined the inquiry before the present grand jury to an investigation of all alleged violations of law, so that they might be the subject of ptosecution in other jurisdictions.
 Evidence valuable to the government in any prosecution which may be com- menced elsewhere has been adduced be- fore the grand jury, and will probably at once be put into force and effect in the proper Jurisdiction, probably Chi cago, by the attorney general.
 "The attorney general has directed that the summing up of the evidence taken before the present grand jury, the preparation of the case and the conduct of the trial in Chicago be as- stunned by myself, with the help of 8 specially appointed assistant attorney general and the United States attorney in Chicago
 Tt appears from this statement that under the facts as they now appear there is no lawful Jurisdiction in this particular judicial district the grand jury did not vote upon the question of indictments at all, but the sitting of that body at the present time was very important in not only developing where the prosecution of the alleged offences should be had but also brought out important testimony that can be effect lively used all along the line, accord ing to the programme adopted by the attorney general in his earnest and vigorous campaign against corporate and individual violators of the "El- kins law" and the act to regulate com merce among the states