The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-11-01
JUROR ARRESTED
IN AUTQ|sI's CASE.
Architect. Charged With At
tempting to- Hang" Jury
in Murder Trial
SERVED IN THE TRIAL
OF NAN PATTERSON
Said to Have Remarked Il Hung
That Jury fos $500 and Will
DO the Same in This
Case.'f

NEW YORK, Nov. i.-Cierged
with soliciting ard accepting a bribc
OF $500 10 .'hasx~ The Jury trying
Edward T. Ro~afIeAsgrr, tho million
airr. for the aIles1d murder Of Miss
Grace Hough By ssxiking her with hts
automobile, George w. Yeandlc, an
architect, selCrted ~ Juror No. Z, was
arrested TO-DAY. N default Of 1fO.-
600 hail I've was tknlanded to the
TombS for cxamtnafi01 Thursday.
Ycandlc was = tarUr In the trial OF
Nan Patterson. the beauty OF the
Flora Dor. sextctse. when the chorus
girl WAS charged with killing Caesar
Young. the wealthY boOkinaker. The
police Soy tilat yAandle admitted
Hanging the Pxt1csson jury for =
consideration Of e6OO-
Arrested with Yeanfile was Dago-
bert Timondoffer, q builder. charged
with being the man who conducted
the means Of attempted bribery.
1t was Rosenheimer's own attorney.
James W. Osborne. who told the story
in chambers to Justice o'Gorman. pre-
siding at the HosAnheimer trial, At
the instigation 81 District Attorney
whitman. Osborne continued the ne
gotiat1onR and when yeandle was
locked up the money in marked bills
il said to have been found in his pos
session.
May Causr Inquiry.
The statement that Yeandie hung"
tho Nan Patterson jury Will probably
cause All Investigation into that trial
When the Rosenhefmer case was
opened to-day Jnatice O'Gorman an
nounced that by consent OF attorneys
| for both sides. juror No. had been
excused. 1t was noted that juror No.
! was Yeandle. who had served on
the Patterson jury which had dis
agreed.
coust officers tried 10 h p the at
fair quiet. 30 thai akas ID have no
influence On the other krsenheimer
jurors. and II was only when yeandle
and Timondoner were arrAtgned in
the Tombs police court that the facts
became known.
According To the police. Timondef-
/ fer. acting on behalf OF Yeandle. vis-
tied Attorney James W. Osborne, chief
! counsel for Rosenheimer and one OF
the leading criminal attorneys in
America. Timondoffer told Osborne.
the attorney charged. that Yeandie
had struck out for an acquittal in
the Nan Patterson case until a mis-
trial resulted. Nan Patterson was re-
leased after second trial. tYeandie's
hung that jury for 5000, and he is
willing to do the same thing for Ro-
senheiner," Timondcffer is said to
have told Osborne.
Osborne indignant that such an Of
fer should he made 10 him. nererthe-
less consented 70 60 on with the ne
gotiations. after informing Justice
O'Gorman and district attorney
whitman. who had urged him to pay
the brihe money and thus secure posi-
tive evidence against the two men,
Kept Appointment
To-day. acting. II n stated. under
Instructions from Osborne. Yeandle
! -Timndnffer- Ment-tn- the corner
OF Madison avenue. and Thirty-fifth
! street They were told that the mon
ey would he paid them by attorney
George A. Knoblock. Osborne's aNo-
clate in the defense OF Rosenheimer.
Detectives Forbes and Gaynor,
from the Central Office were conceal
!. ed where they could see all that tran
spircd. Knobloch was given the $500
IN bills that had been marked under
the supervision Of the court. The two
prisoners appeared promptly Mt 1859
and approached Knobioch. After a
conversat ton the detectives. they saw
Knobloch hand the $500 to Yeandle.
They Immediately bounced upon
Yeandfe and Timondoffer and placed
them under arrest. Yeandle was
hurried '.frfsked" and $500 marked
bills were found by the detectives.
YeAndle and Timondoffer were
| rushed to the Tombs Police Court,
where they were arraisned on war
!, rants charging them with violation
Of section ia which makes them
liable TO imprisonment for 10 years
and q fine Of 5000.
The hearing was brief and the men
were remAnded to tho Tombs for
examination ThursdAy and their
bonds Fixed at $4,000. In default OF
! which they were looked up.
Another juror was selected to take
Yeandle's place and the trial pro-
ceeded.