The Cairo bulletin., 1911-04-15

"a SoH0tS rIdS III oON'
Cyril Jandus former state senator
was questioned at length concerning
$500 which he kept in a iappannet
tin box in his office instead OF plac
| ing 1t in the bank. Mr.. Healey dis
played particular curiosity concerntna
a payment of $500 Jandus made on
some Montana lands June s, '9ln
Mr.. Jandus and his 'tin box" IN
which he was accustomed TO leave
$4,000 in the vault OF bis office in
the Chicago o, era House Block con
sumed the created part of tine hear
ing. As senator in 1909 Jandus
a Democrat, voted for Lor,mer m The
decisive ballot He is now chief lie
putty clerk in the Probate Cont
clerks office in Chicago
AT the time of the Broderick trial
here last month Jandls was brought
out as hitherto unmentioned Wit
ness OF the meeting between Bro
derrick and Holstlaw in the formers
saloon during which Holstaw con
fessed he received a $500 brihe from
Broder;cs.
During the Broderick trial JANUS
testifiedhe was present tie entire
time Holstlaw was In the saloon and
that ne had seen no money change
hands. The Holstlaw H3it was in
June, 1909
After asking Jandus concerning the
meeting with Broderick AMI Iiolstlaw
in the saloon Mr. Heaiey developed
that the witness kept bank account
N the kasper State Bank, but that
beyond his stub books and Cancelled
,hecks he hald no written mamoran-
la or data Indicating the amount of
money he received and lisOurscd
rom time to time Jandus pfomis-
ID TO furnish his stub books and old
checks to the COMMITTEES, and the in
Jury then struck the purchase Of
ands by Jandus in Montana in 1909
With few ssociates--EdwarI
3ursh, a deputy sheriff A. ]. Rain,
proprietor of the Chicago Globe Print
ng Company; John FTcik, 4 wine
merchant and one Kohla wine sales
nan-Janius got hold of some Mon
ana lands for $4,000. Jandus' share
n the transaction was $500 OF this
developed he paid $1,000 May a.,
909 $4,000 June 8, 1909, and $500
| few weeks later.
1t was the $4,000 payment that oc-
'upied most of Mr.. Healey's atten-
ion. He asked Jandus where he
money came from
"Oh / have had money" was the
answer, possibly in the nelghbor-
hood of $500 at that time; mad it
readyto pay some loan"
Further questioning developed that
Iandus kept $4,000 in currency in his
,ffice in the tin box and that about
lalf of it was in. 500 bills.
Cans Recall Details.
The $4,000 land payment was made
by check and Jandus was unable to
estify whether ne had taken the mon
~ out of the "tin box" and placed
in the clients money he was car
fying in the bank as representative
OF building and loan associations.
Jaidus had no recollection OF hav-
ing received $4,000 from any OF his
clients about that time, but said that
transactions OF that extent were fire.
quently with him.
Now" asked Mr.. Healey, don't
you have any recollection with re-
terrence to the funds from which yon
received the $4,000 with which to
make that payment, whether you took
It from your japanned tin box in the
vault2" ~
Il do not answered Jandus.
"Or whether it was money you got
from somebody else?' 't
Il do not replied the witness.
The questions rambled on, cover
Ing Jandus' career in politics, but Mr.
Healey from time to time kept steer
ing 1t back to the land payment and
asked again whether the money was
already on deposit in the bank or
whether Jandus took 1t out of the tin
b0Y and danocftad ~