The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-01-28
STORIES OF GENERAL INTEREST; HAPPENINGS
AT HOME AND ABROAD; CORRESPONDENCE

ent names for one and the same person,
, to-wit: Frank Lavendoski, who to this
atlantis personal knowledge was twice
confined in the southern Illinois state
penitentiary at Chester, Illinois, and
who is now wanted in the county of
Logan and state of Illinois for the
crime of obtaining money under false
pretenses. That the said Frank Laven-
doski was twice sentenced to the South
ern Illinois penitentiary after a con-
victiOn upon the charge of forgery.
This affiant further states that while
in the said county of Blue Earth and
state of Minnesota, he did not at any
time or place, speak to or in the pres
ence of any of the jurors who were i'm
panneled to try the said Frank Laven-
doski, alias. Frank Smith; that he did
not know any of the jurors and espec-
tally a juror named Thomas Rooney,
with whom this affiant is informed it
has been stated that he, this affiant,
talked. This affiant further states
that he did. while in said county of
Blue Earth and state of Minnesota, talk
to the publisher or some one connected
with one of the daily papers in the
city of Mankato i'm said county and
state, and at that time told the pub
Usher or some one connected with said
paper, all of the facts known by this
affiant in connection with the previous
life and record of the said Frank Laven-
.dOski, alias Smith, but this affiant
states that such conversation and such
statements so made to the publisher
or party connected with said paper,
were not made with view of influence
ing the jury who had been or were to
be impanneled to try the said Laven-
doski, alias Smith, and that all of
the statements made by this affiant to
the newspaper publisher, or party con-
nected with said newspaper, were true
in substance and in fact and each and
every of such statements can be sub
stantiated by proof by this affiant.
This affiant reiterates the fact that
he never at any time conversed with
or in the presence of any juror impan-
neled in said case. and any statement
of allegation that this affiant did so
converse in the presence of or with
any such juror is absolutely false and
untrue. That any statement or allega-
ton that the facts given by this Aft
ant to such newspaper publisher or
person connected with any newspaper
in the city of NIankato, were made
with view of influencing or coming
to the notice of any. juror connected
with or impanneled to try the said
Lavendoski alias Smith, is wholly false
and untrue; that this affiant was in
publisher or person connected with such
newspaper, all of the facts known to
this affiant in connection with the prev
ious criminal record of said Laven.
doski, and that such statements were
made by this affiant solely as mat
ter OF news and all such facts so
given by this affiant he reiterates were
and are absolutely true, and can be
proven and substantiated, by this aft.
ant. And further affiant sayeth not.
David J. Devine, sheriff Logan county,
iii. Subscribed and sworn to before
me by the said David J. Devine, this
18th day of January, A. d. 1910. c..
Everett Smith, Notary Public.
Ed Bender Is Sworn.
Ed. Bender being by me first duly
sworn on oath says that he was one
of the Jurors who tried the case of the
State of Minnesota against Frank Smith
which said jury rendered its verdict upon
the l4th day of December A. d. 1909,
that this affiant did not on the morn
ing of the l4th day OF December, 1909,
at the barber shop of NJ. l.. Fallenstein
in the city of Mankato, Blue Earth
county, Minnesota, read an article pub
lished in The Daily Review of said
city of Mankato on December LIST,
1909, relative to said Frank Smith, alias
Frank Lavendoski, and one Dowell, depu-
ay warden of the Illinois state prison
at Chester, Illinois; and one Devine,
sheriff of Logan county, Illinois; or
any part thereof and that this affiant
did not impart any of such article in
said paper to any of the other jurors
in said case for it was impossible for
him to do so because he did not know
OF it until after the jury had rendered its
verdict in said case.
Sheriff Donahue's Affidavit
John w. Donahue being by me first
duly sworn on oath says that he is
the sheriff of Blue Earth county, Mimi,
and has been such for more than three
years last past; that on the 18th day
of December, 1909, he was at the