The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-04-11
CHARGE Is PERJURY
Frank [. Jackson and Shelly
Montgomery Arrested on a
Charge of Perjury
GIVE BOND FOR HEARING
District Attorney Declares That He
Will Be Ready to Take up Charges
in the Circuit Court Next
Week

A sensational echo of the Collier
case was heard just after six o'clock
Monday evening when Frank L.
Jackson and Shelly H. Montgomery,
we'll known young men of the city
who figured prominently in the Col
lier case, we're taken into custody by
Chief of Police O'Hare on charge of
perjury. The warrant for the arrest
of the two men was issued by Justice
b. 0. Sturges on complaint signed
by District Attorney r. v. Baker.
The men appeared in court just before
seven O'Clock Monday night and gave
bonds in the sum of one thousand dol
lars each and the preliminary hear
ing of the cases were continued until
April 10. The arrest of Jackson and
Montgomery caused almost as great a
sensation as the original arrest of
Collier.
In the complaint the men are
charged with perjury. The charge
against Jackson is made in connec-
ton with the evidence which he gave
during the closing days of the Collier
trial in the Circuit Court and the
specific piece of alleged false testi-
mony on which the complaint is
based is the fact that Jackson swore
that at the time the automobile de-
creased its speed on the night that
the object was struck it was at least
three-fourths Of mile from Central
Park. The district attorney claims
that Jackson well knew at that time
that the car was not more than seven
hundred feet from Central Park.
The charge against Montgomery
is based on evidence given at pre-
liminary hearing held before Justice
George B. McCarron on July SO, when
Jackson and Montgomery were ex-
auined in regard to the issue of
warrant for the arrest of ssJohn Doe. ,"
At this time it is alleged that Mont
gomery testified that the automobile
driven by Collier was not on the RAJ
cine road at an hour later than g
O'Clock IN the evening.
The District Attorney alleges in his
complaint that Montgomery knew
we'll that the car was on the road at
an hour much later than the one
stated in his testimony, and in fact
Montgomery has since testified that
the car went over the road at a much
later hour.
There is some surprise on account
of the arrest of Montgomery on &C
count of the fact that at the time
Montgomery and Jackson made, the
statement on which the warrant for
the arrest of Collier was based the
district attorney had stated that he
would not prosecute the boys for per-
jury on anything that they had stated
before but in this regard the under
standing was that the two men were
to go on the stand at the trial and tell
the same story that they had told in
the hearing on which the war
rant was based. District Attorney
Baker in an interview Tuesday morn
ing stated that the men had failed to
keep their agreement and that the
evidence that they gave at the trial
was very unsatisfactory to say the
least. He holds that the immunity
promised was forfeited by the action
of the two men on the trial. Speak
ing further of the case the district
attorney stated that the prosecutions
had nothing to do with the cntcome
Of the Collier trial and that they were
bona fide ard he would carry them out.
He stated that if the men desired to
have an immediate trial on the
charges he would be ready and willing
TO take the matter up il the Circuit
Court next week if the preliminary
hearing could be disposed of by that
time.
There is a severe penalty connected
with the charge as brought and if the
men are found guilty the lowest PEN
atty that can be assessed against
them is two years Imprisonment in
the state prison.
The arrest of the two men came as
a great surprise to every one coz
nected with the case as it had been
supposed that the district attorney
would be satisfied with the conviction
of Collier and not seek to bring his
companions into Court on the charge
of perjury. The penalty for the crime
charged against Jackson and Mont
gomery is much greater than that for
the charge against Collier. The
further developments in the case will
be watched with great interest by the
friends of the two men.
NOTICE