The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-07-07
BROWNE JURY
D|SAGREES---
DISCHARGED
JURORS IN THE ILLINOIS
BRIBERY CASE WERE
UNABLE TO REACH
A VERDICT.
Result Means that Democratic
Minority Leader Will Have
to Stand Another
Trial.

Jurors in the Lee .O'Neil
Browne Legislative bribery case
were unable to reach a verdict
and so reported to Judge Nc
Surely. A mistrial was the re-
suit after the jurors had wrang-
led and dellberated since $50 D.
m. Friday. The defendant as
we'll as judge and others inter-
ested IN the case were prepared
tor a disagreement after the long
vigil OF five nights, when there
was no sign of the twelve men
getting together upon a verdict.
Judge McSurely at 1925
Wednesday morning announced
that he would call the jury be-
fore him and shortly afterward
sent for the panel to appear in
court. After short consulta-
tom, when he discovered that an
agreement seemed impossible,
he discharged the body and also
thanked its members for their
services of more than 115 hours.
New Trial Expected Soon.
This ending OF what is consid-
cred the biggest political trail in
recent years in Cook county
means that Minority Leader
Browne will have to stand the
test again before a jury of his
peers. States attorney Way
man is understood TO be ready
to go ahead at once and place
Browne on trial second time
to answer the accusation of Re-
preventative Charles A. White,
charging Browne with having
paid him 81 900 for his (White's)
vote in support of WIN. Lorimer
for United States senator.
Trial Most Sensational in State.
The Browne bribery trial will
go down in history as one of the
most sensational in the political
annals of Illinois, say authorities.
The Indictment against Browne,
based upon the confession of Re-
preventative Charles A. White of
O'Fallon H., shocked the polit-
ical life of the nation. Whites
amazing story was printed in the
Chicago Tribune on April 80.
On the witness stand Brownies
accuser displayed his contract
with the Chicago Tribune show
ing that he was paid $3.50 for
the story.
The indictment against Lee
O'Neil Browne was based upon
tn charge of White that Browne
paid him $1,000 for his vote in
support OF Sen. Lorimer. Nine
hundred dollars of the money
was passed in Chicago in the
Briggs house.
White that Browne paid him
$1,000 for his vote in support OF
Senator Lorimer. Nine hundred
dollars of the money was passed
in Chicago I'M the Briggs house.
White further confessed that
he was paid 5000 from an alleged
Jack pot" slush fund, divided in
the Southern hotel in St. Louis
by Representative Robert E.
Wilson of Chicago. Judge Nc
Surely ruled out of the Browne
case all refernce to- the lack
pot" holding that only testimony
bearing upon the senatorShip
was competent.
The statement was made re-
peatedly during the five days
that the jury was out that all of
the jurors except one were vot-
ing for conviction. But when
the Judge called the jury in We'd
neSday he found that they were
divided eight to four. with no
possibility of agreement.
Many lawyers who believe
Browne and other members of
the legislature were bribed and
that the legislature was seeking
with corruption. also believe that
the technicalities of the law will
allow them to escape punish