The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-30
ATTORNEY MAKES
1 CRAVE CHARGES
Prosecutor Declares That Part
of Jury in Browne Trial
Was Fixed"
NO AGREEMENT REACHED
AFTER OUT 115 HOURS
Jurors Stood Eight for Convic-
ton, Four for Acquittal
All Through.

CHICAGO, June 29.-Scarccly had
announcement of mistrial in the case
of Lee O'Neil Browne, charged with
bribery in the election of William
Lorimer to the United States senate
been made today, than States Attorney
Wayman declared that the Jury had
been packed. Speaking to reporters he
SAID.
"This is the most hagranJ case OF
iury-fxing I have ever seen. 1t would
seem that these courtrooms were con-
structed to make it easy to flag the
Jurors. and this case is good example.
The Jury was packed from the start;
Zone Juror was the king-pin of them
all 1t is strange that men who nave
been hanging about the courtroom daV
after day, almost minute after minute,
should have been detected IN build
inps across the street from the Jury
room. and should walk off arm In arm
with Jurors who stood for acqulttal,
Notwithstanding tho statement OF
several Jurors that they stood eight TO
four for conviction throughout, MT,
Wayman declared that the jury at one
time stood eleven to one for convection,
Has His Ire Aroused.
The states attorney declared that
mon had been signaling jurors from
the windows of hotel across the
street from the criminal court building;
EI won u have those fellows around
the courtroom again, Tagging the
iurors.D he added. 'tIf they attempt 1T
in the next trial, or in any other trial,
I shall have them arrested at once.
zone of the jurors told me there was
enough evidence introduced to convict
MON Tbrpo men confessed to re.
ceiving bribes, and yet there were four
men on that Jury who failed TO convict
A pretty state of affairs.
Mr.. Wayman IS comments caused
sensation, and when reporters later re-
verted to the subject the state 8 attor-
ney sought to modify his remarks.
The jury was out lis hours, the
longest session by fourty-one hours ever
held by a jury in Chicago. Twenty.
four ballots were taken, the count
throughout standing, eight for convic-
tion against four for acquittal. .,
The iurors who stood for acQulttal
were Charles S. Spare, William Il,
Lowe. William II, Hennessy and Walter
]. Hermanson.
One Juror, Arthur S. Townsend. was
asked If there was any fighting in the
jury room.
Had 'Fine Time
stI should say not" he answered:
with laugh. 'f'They we're Jolly good
bunch, and we had fine time. We all
stuck TO our views. The argument was
warm at times, but we all recognized
the rights of others to their own opin-
ions.
Juror Spare, who was reported to be
hanging the jury. confirmed Townsend s
version of the session.
ifIt was always eight to four ne
said. s'I don't believe we could have
agreed if we stayed until docmsday :,
Judge McSurely said he would hear
a motion for new trial in a week from
today.
Lee O'Neil Browne, leader of the
Democratic minority in the state house
of representatives. was charged speclh'
cally with having paid Representative
Charles A. White $1,000 to cast his vote
for William Lorimer for United States
senator. White was the principal wit
ness for the state. Representatives II.
j. c. Beckmeyer and Michael S, Link
also testified that they had received
$1,000 each for their Lorimer votes. The
alleged promise to pay White the bribe
is said to have been made at Spring
field, where Browne is under indictment
charged with bribery.