The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-11-02
MARKED
BILLS HIS
UNDO|NG
JUROR IN MURDER TRIAL
RGED WITH
TAKING BRlBE
REEVES INTEREST IN
NAN PATTERSON CASE
Man Under Arrest Served as
Juror in Trial Of Beautiful
Chorus Girl

New York, Nov :, The trial OF ED
ward 4, Rosenhemer, millonair
charged with the murder OF Grac
Housn, by running her down witt
an automobile, was suddenly halte,
Dy the arrest Of one OF the jurors
George w Yeandle, charged with hay
ing demanded and accepted a briDe
Il Is alleged live hundred dollars wa
given Yeandle by George Knoblocl
one Of kosenheimers attorneys.
In deiaut OF $4,000 bal be wa
renianded to the Tombs Tor examine
tion Thursday.
feandle was a juror in the trial o
Nan Patterson, the beautiful actres,
IN the Florodora sextette, when III,
chorus girl was charged with KILN,
Caesar Young, the wealthy bookmak
er.
Patterson Juror.
lne poli,e say that Yeandle toda,
admitted hanging the Patterson
jury for $500.
Arrested with Yeandle was Dabger
Timondoffer, builder, charged witt
conducting the negotiations for tn,
attempted bribery
Rosenheimers motor car killed Mis-
Ilough, and the murder charge grew
out of the accident.
II was RosenheImer's own attorne.
James w. Osborne, who told the slor
TO Justice O'Gorman, presiding al tn,
Rosenheimer trial.
AT the instigation of District Attor
ney Whitman, Osborne continued thu
negotiations and when Yeandle was
jailed, the money in marked bills IL
said TO have been found in his pocket,
The statement tnat Yeandlc hung
the Nan Patterson jury probably Wy
cause an investigation into that trial
When the Rosenheimer case was
opened Justice O'Gorman announced
that by consent of attorneys for botl
sides juror No. had been excused.
Attempted Secrecy.
Court officers tried to keep the az
fair quiet, that il might have no in
fluence on the other jurors. and 1t wa,
only when Yeandle and Timondoffei
were arraigned that the facts became
known.
According to the police Timondoff
or, acting on behalf of Yeandle, visit
ed Attorney James w. Osborne, chiel
counsel for Rosenheimer, ard one o.
the leading criminal attorneys ia Am
erica.
Timondoffer told Osborne that Yeal
die had stuck out for an scquittal il
the Nan Patterson case until mis-
trial resulted. Nan Patterson was re
leased after her second trial.
Proposition Made,
"Yeandle hung that jury for $50p
and he is willing to do the same thinf
for Rosenheimer," Tim0ndoffer is al
legged to have said,
Osborne, indignant that such an
offer should be made, nevertheless
.onsented to 90 on with the arrange
ments. after informing Justice O'Gor
man and District Attorney Whitman
who had advised him to pay the bribt
money and thus secure positive eyl
dence against the men.
Acting under instructions from Os
borne. Yeandle and Timondofier went
to the corner of Madison avenre and
35th street. They were told that the
money would be raid them by Attor-
ley Geoge A. Knobloch, Osborne's
assistant in the defense of Rosenheim-
er.
Detectives Forbes and Gaynor from
the central office were concealed
where they could see all that happen
ed. Knobloch was given the $500
in bills. which had been marked un
der the supervision OF the court The
TWO prisoners appeared and approach
ed Knobloch.
Marked Money Transferred.
After a conversation, the detectives
say. they saw Knobloch hand the $500
10 Yeandle. They Immediately pounc-
ed on Yeandle and Timondoffer and
placed them under arrest.
Yeandle was hurriedly searched and
$500 in marked bills was found.
The two are liable to Imprisonment
Tor ten years and fine Of $1,000 un
Ter the charge against them.
The hearing at the Tombs court
was brief and the men were remand
I'd to prison for examination Thursday
Their bonds we're fixed at $4,000 in
default of which they were locked up.
Patterson Case Revived.
The Patterson case, revived by to-
LAYS developments, occurred six
years ago. The chorus girl had been
a long time associate of Young,
Dookmaker. whose friends finally per-
suaded him to take trip to Europe,
where he was to join his wife. Nan
Patterson entered hanson cab with
Young on his way to the pier
The cabman told Of a quarrel. A
shot was fired Young was found
lead.
Nan Patterson claimed he killed
himself rather than leave her The
DOlice charged that she Killed niln