The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-03-11
MAY GO TO
SUPREME
COURT
Pugh Gets Shorthand De.
putty and Will Install
\ Phonosraph if
This Fails.

= ! hope for . thorough inves- =
= tigation Of the Root-0ordon .
= scandal, and | wish to thank .
. the board Of county commits =
. sioners for their support to- =
= day In appointing my special =
. deputy. y
. ! trust the ruling Of the .
. court this morning will not re- .
. suit In hamperino the efficien. =
. cy Of the grand Jury.-state- =
= ment Of Prosecuting Attorney =
. Puoh today noon. .
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ATTORNEY FRANK GRAVES
OF THE COUNSEL FOR JUDGE
GORDON, HAVING ON THE RE-
CONVEYING OF JUDGE HUN
EkE'S COURT THIS AFTER
NOON QUEeTioNED THE RIGHT
OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
FRED c. PUcH TO CALL TO HIS
ASSISTANCE IN THE GRAND
JURY ROOM ANOTHER DEPUTY
IN THE PERSON OF JOHN II.
PELLETiER, A SHORTHAND RE.
PORTER.
Mr.. PUGH CALMLY TOLD
THE COURT THAT HE BE-
LlEvED he HAD A RIGHT UN-
DER THE LAW TO CALL PELLE-
TIER As ONE OF HIS DEPUTIES,
AND THAT IF THE COURT DE-
MED HIM THE RIGHT he
WOULD APPEAL TO THE ST.
PREME COURT.
JUDGE HuNEkE SAID THE
MATTER WAS NEW TO HIM
AND. THAT HE HAD NOT CON.
= sIDERED ITS MERITS.
BY AGREEMENT OF PUoH
AND GRAVES ARGUMENT OF
THE POINT WAS MADE THE
SPECIAL ORDER FOR 3 O'CLOCK
At WHICH TIME PROSECUTOR
PuGH SAID HE WOULD be PRE-
PARED TO CITE THE LAW IN
SUPPORT OF HIS APPOINT
MENT OF MR.. PELLETiER AND
THE LATTER'e RIGHT TO SIT
IN THE GRAND JURY.
THE ATTORNEYS FOR COR.
DON SAID THAT THEY WOULD
NOT ONLY OPPOSE THE RIGHT
OF PELETTlER TO SIT IN THE
GRAND JURY BUT ALSO THE
RIGHT OF ANY ONE TO TAKE
THE VERBATIM EVIDENCE.
THE ATTORNEYS FOR COR
DON ARE EVIDENTLY DETER.
MINED THAT ABSOLUTELY NO
RECORD SHALL De MADE OF
THE GRAND JURY PROCEED
INGs, A RADICAL DEPARTURE
FROM THE USUAL RULE.
The subtle and determined ef-
forts Of the large and ever increas-
ing array Of legal counsel enlisted
IN the cause OF Judge M, ]. Cor
don, accused OF embezzling Great
Northern funds, against the grand
Jury investigation now In progress.
succeeded in scoring another point
this morning.
by unanimous vote of the five
superior court judges. the evidence
taken at the session yesterday aft
ernoon, at which three witnesses
were heard late In the day, was
ordered destroyed and the official
stenographer who took 1t, Mr..
Clark, barred from further aiding
in recording the work of the grand
jury.
This action was taken over the
vigorous protest of Prosecuting At.
torney Pugh, who commended that
the judges had not given him an
opportunity for hearing, and that
the first he knew OF the new move
was when the order of court was
entered barring Stenographer
Clark.
Pugh vehemently served notice
on the attorneys for Gordon that a
SWi ICpoit VI thu 9Iuuu jury PRIV
ceedings would be had IL he had
to install talking machine to
record 1t,
But the victory II the astute
counsel for the former attorney for
the Great Northern was short lived.
Mr.. Pagh appealed to the county
commissioners, who entered an Or
der authorizing him to employ an.
ott deputy prosecutor one that
hat. a knowledge Of shorthand. and
forthwith Pugh attached ]. II.
Pelletier, a member Of the bar and
d shorthand reporter. to his official
staff
Under the law the prosecuting
attorney and his deputies are the
only persons who have the right Of