New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-13
MYSTERY OVER D|EGLE'
He Seems To Be in Dayton, Con-
ferring with Lawyers.
REPORTED AT FRENCH LICK
Also Said To Be Preparing to
Tell All He Knows About
Ohio Bribery.

Dayton. Ohio, Sept ,2.-That Rodney D.
Diegle is in Dayton and that he spent the
evening comforting with attorneys mere
seems to he established. II is known that
a meeting was held in the office OF {. j.
Mattern. where were gathered Mr.. Mattern
his stenographor. John Egan and two
strange men thought 10 have been Dles'e
and Attorney General Hogan. BY ruse
the party left the office unnodced. ana
neither Mr.. Mattern nor Mr.. Egan could nc
found at his home later.
Toledo Sept 12.-According to Mrs. Rod
ney Diegle, wife Of the convicted sergeant
alarms of the Ohio Senate. she was taxi
Ing with her husband over the telephone
at DAYTON. Ohio. about O'Clock tonight.
She says her husband told her he would
return to Sandusky tomorrow II notning
happened. Mrs Diegle's daughter received
a postcard from her father dated at Day
ton to-day.
Columbus. Ohio. Sept. 12.-The grand jury
Of Franklin County Is ready to convene
| Monday for the regular September session.
and IL is expected that process servers VIII
be busy in various parts of the state Tor
the next ten DAYS. The confession relating
to alleged bribery and corruption in the
Legislature, which Rodney J. DieGle. con-
victed sergeant-at-arms Of the Senate IT
said to he preparing al French LICK i'lo''
promises to open UP the widest held oi III
vestigaton that has developed since the
bribery scandal broke at the close OF the
late session Of the Legislature
While no subppnas will he issued until
/ after Dieclo's statement has been recelNeu'
! il IS understood that the state prosecutors
| already have information In general way
| about many OF those who, Il Is expected
! will be mentioned. 1t was declared To-Day
/ that the Common Pleas court session next
| week is likely to take on much of the ap-
pearance of a legislative reunion More
! than half the members Of both Senate aho
| House are likely to he here, either To ap-
/ pear before the grand jury or because oi
! their intense interest in the investigation.
| Detective Harry Bradbury, who was re-
| ported i'm French Lick dispatch to-day
as being with Diegle and EGan at that
place is I'm Columbus tonight. ana says
he spent the day here. He gave no cre-
dence TO the story that Diesle Is in frencn
Lick. but insisted that he was ignorant OF
| the whereabou Of the convicted sergeant
alarms.
! French Lick Springs. Ind. Sept 12.-"l II
! tell all. Never mind what I'm writing
! Call it my memoirs of Ohio politics II you
want to. There will he no doubt OF "ha'
! | say after Monday"
/ Rodney J. Diegle is alleged TO have MADE
/ the above declaration at the French LICK
! Springs Hotel here to-day when he
learned that his whereabouts we're known
Search tonight failed To find Diesie' an"
doubt was cast on the genuneness o. inc
statement attributed to him. II Diegie Is
here. he is under a fictitious name or not
registered Thomas Taggart, eX-Chairmah
of the Democratic National COMMITTEE
who knows Dicglc, said he had not been az
the French Lick Springs Hotel to-day ana
] search of every hotel here and at Nest
Baden failed to discover him.