Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-16
MAY MEET y.SS> 4 THE COURTS
Sangamop 50 y Official Says Other
b ath Contempt.
CRISIS IN JURIsDICTIoNAL FIGHT
Representative Links Lawyer IN
Appeal to Wsyman.
LATTER PROTECTING EVIDENCE
Fcnr that Testimony VIII Leak Mt
Springfield aud Go to Defense
IL MaInspring of the
Action.

CHICAGO. May 15.-The spectacle OF
states Attorney John f.. w. Wayman be-
Ing cited at Springfield for contempt OF
court may be the result Of the fight over
authority between Wayman and states
Attorney Edmund Burke Of Sangamon
county in the investigation which each is
making into the charges of bribery in the
general assembly.
In an ultlmatum Mr.. Burke annchhced
that unless Mr.. Wayman ceases his Inter
ference" in the Sangamon county inquiry
at once he will apply to the courts for an
order holding the Cook county prosecutor
in contempt
Smarting with Indignation because Repre-
sentative Michael :. Link, confessed brlbo
taker, has refused to testify there sup
posedIy on Mr. Wayman's advice and be-
cause Detective J. J. OKeefe of Wayman's
office ignored a subpoena served on him
at Springfield, Burke issued statement
declaring Waymans tactics are beneath
contempt" Burke is convinced that
| O'Keefe acted on orders from Mr.. Way
man, his superior.
The fight between Wayman and Burke
has precipltated the most sensational
situation of it's kind in the history OF the
state.
Link Appeals Tor Help.
Attorney Frank Reid, counsel for Repre-
sentative Michael $. Link, one of the three
| legislators who confessed in the borimer
bribe scandal came to Chicago and
held a conference with states Attorney
Wayman, at which it was said he appealed
| to the Chicago prosecutor for aid.
Link was frightened by the Springfield
developments, according to report and save
VNIn dc
| through his attorney to wayman. Link is
under. citation for contempt of court and
will face the jail Monday if he persists
in his refusal 20 repeat his bribery con-
fession to the sangamon county grand
jury. ls.-
I Al the same Time II was reported that
states Attorney Burke of sangamon was
planning to follow the same tactics with
the other legislators who confessed. Charles
A. White and H. ]. c. Beckmyer arresting
them on a charge of bribery and taking
them before the inquisitors at Springfield
Fear of n Leak.
Fear that the testimony will leak al
Springfield and become the property OF
the defense is said to be the real reason
State Attorney Wayman Is fighting to
prevent his witnesses from testifying al
ICprlH6Iltiu.
Representative White will be kept from
the state capital at all hazards. He has
been subpoenaed by State Attorney Burke
of Sangamon county. II an attempt. is
made to get him out of Cook county a
habeas corpus writ will be asked to hold
him. 1--WE will then see whether Cook OF
Sangamon county has more deputy
sheriffs, said one of Mr.. Wayman's aides
In spite of all denals, specific and de-
tailed reports were in circulation around
the criminal court building that Link was
In Chicago and that he would stay here
not returning to Springfield on Monday
whether cited for contempt or not
White is under guard Of detectives from
State Attorney Waymsn's office in Chi.
cago and has already been served with g
subpoena from Sangamon county Beck
meyer is at his home at Carlysle. The ar
rest of these men, it was expected would
bring to a crisis the first jurisdictions
fight over the Lormer bribery scandal.
Prosecutor Burke planned to summon, 1
necessary, every legislator democrat or re
, publican, who voted for Lormer, ant
began by calling Representatives Charlie
: Durfee and Thomas Campbell before tn
! jury.