Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-05-03
ILLINOIS LEGISLATOR WHO Ac.
cUsED, MINORITY LEADER
BROWNE OF BUYING voTEA
FOR LoRIMER, WILL TESTIFY. 1
OTHERS MENTIONED
MAY BE SUlMMO1NEU
MEMBERS OF LEGISLATURE I'M
PLIcATED IN BRIBERY EAL1M
WHITES CONFESSION MAY AP-
PEAR BEFORE GRAND Jury.

Chicago, May "A special g1anA
Jury convened today for the purpose
Of hearing evidence in the Chicago e.
Western Indiana railroads allogs
grating scandal and "other matters.
Included under the head OF other NAB.
ters will probably be the charge g
bribery In the election-of Senator LOT
inner last May.
States Attorney Wayn1an WIN brtnt
Representative Charles A White OF
O'Fallon before the special grand jury
this afternoon to repeat his confession
alleging that he was paid bribe Of
81 900 for voting for William Lorimer
for United States senator and that
later, he got 5000 as his share In q
Jackpot" or general legislative cor
ruption fund.
The public prosecutor indmatea M
also that in the near future downstate
legislators mentioned by White IN his
charges will appear before the spec
ial inquisitorial body. the list includ-
Ing Henry A. Sheppard OF Jerseyville.
Joseph 8. Clark OF Vandalia and
Michael Link Of Mitchell.
Gets Right Of Way.
The Legislative bribery scandal will
| be given the right Of way, and when
the special grand jury gets through
with it's work Whites astounding
story will have been investigated to-
the bottom.
The inquiry will not be confined to
Cook county alone. for In Sangamon
county the regular grand jury con-
venes today at Springfield, and StateS
Attorney Edmund Burke declares tnae
| it will make an exhaustive inquiry
into the Sorrupt deals alleged By
White to have been transacted IN fpa
state capital.
After White is through at the crims
final court building in Chicago. th0
Sangamon county authorities Will tako
him before the grand jury at Spring
field May 8. II he repeats the con-
fession he made to States Attorney,
Wayman before the Sangamon COUNTY,
Jurors, States Attorney Burke de3
clares that he will be indicted AND
prosecuted forthwith, no matter what
assurance of immunity he may have
from prosecution in Cook county.
Lee O'Neil Browne Of Ottawa, ha
Democratic leader Of the legislatuf0af
Springfield, and Senator Lordmsr1
both deny the use OF bribes.
Browne, alleged by White TO have
been the distributor Of the L0FameH
money. declared that White had rush<
ed into print because he failed In en-
attempt to use his story to secure
hush money.
Jackpot In st. Louis.
Robert E. Wilson, Democratic Tap1
resentative from Chicago, declared by1
White to have doled out the sluah
money at st. Louis, admits hsvln0
been in st. Louis at the time White aA
leges the Jackpot was distribut1dl
but declares the Democrats who asj
sembled there were partisans 81
Brownies who wished to arrange q
banquet for him at his home town
Browne frowned at the enterprise and
the banquet was called OF.
According to Browne, White former
" was street car conductor In East
st. Louis, and later appeared az
Springfield as a lobbyist IN favor Of
labor bills. Then he was elected to the
lower house.
| White, in his charges, states that
| the public might expect to hear him
called blackmailer, but that he was
prepared for that
Calls White CRATER.