The Detroit times., 1910-11-01
pM|Ts He HUNG"
BJURY THAT TRIED
| NAN PATTERSON
f=orge W. Yeandle, Architect and
Member of Jury, Says He Paid
n $500, According To New
York Police.
h.c Is Now in Jail on Charge of Try
ling To NEEDLE in Trial of
Millionaire Autoist

NEW YORK, Nov. Charged with
soliciting and accepting a bride of $500
10 hang" the jury trying Edward T..
hosenheimed. the millionaire. for the
alleged murder of Miss Grace Hough
by striking her with his automobile,
George W. Yeandle, an architect, Sc
lected as juror No. Z, was arrested
today. In default OF $4,000 ball he
was remanded TO the Tombs for exam
ination Thursday.
feandle was juror in the trial OF
Nan Patterson OF the Florodora sex
tette, when the chorus girl was charg-
ed with killing Caesar Young. the
wealthy bookmaker. The police say
that Yeandle today admitted hang
ing the Patterson jury for consid-
Grafton OF $500.
Arrested with Yeandle was Dagbert
Timondoffer, q builder, charged with
being the man who conducted the me-
gotiations for the attempted bribery.
II was Rosenheimer's own attorney,
James w. Osbore, who told the story
In chambers TO Justice O'Gorman, pre-
siding at the Rosenheimer trial At
the instigations and when Yeandle
was locked up the money in marked
bills is said to have been found in
his pocket
May Investigate Patterson Trial.
The statement that Yeandle hung"
the Nan Patterson jury will probably
cause an investigation into that trial.
When the Rosenheimer case VAS
opered today Justice OGorman In
nourced that by consent or attorneys
for both sides, juror No, had been
excused. II was noted that juror No.
Z was Yeandle who had served on the
Patterson jury, which had disagreed.
Court officers. tried to keep the affair
quiet, so that it would have no infu-
ence nthe other Rosenheimer Jurors
and II was only when Yeandle and
Timondoffer were arraigned In the
Tombs police court that the facts be-
came known.
According to the police, Timondof-
fer, acting on behalf OF Yeandle, visit
ed Attorney James w. Osborne, chief
counsel for Rosenheimer. Timondoffer
told Osborne, the attorney charged,
that Yeandle, had stuck out for an
acouittal In the Nan Patterson case
until a mistrial resulted. Nan Patter-
SON was released after her second
trial. "Yeandle hung that jury for
$500 and he Is willing to do the same
thing for Rosenheimer," Timondoffer
Is said to have told Osborne.
Osborne, indignant that such an OF
fer should be made TO him, neverthe-
less consented to go on with the me-
gotiations, after informing Justice
O'Gorman and District Attorney Whit
man, who had urged him to pay the
bribe money and thus secure positive
evidence against the two men.
Detectives Make Arrest.
Today II is stated, acting under In
structions from Osborne, Yeandle and
Timondoffer went TO the corner OF
Madison avenue and Thirty-ffth-st,
They we're told that the money would
he paid them by George A. Knobloch,
osborne's associate in the defense OF
Rosenheimer.
Detectives Forbes and Gaynor. from
he Central flee, were concealed where
thew could see all that transpired.
Knobloch was given the $500 in bills
that had been marked under the super
vision of the court The two prison
srs appeared promptly at 1920 and
anproached Knobloch.
After a conversation the detectives