Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-12-15
NAME Of BARROW
IN BRIBERY QUIZ
MCNamaras' Counsel Involved by
Witness at Los Angeles. =
CAUSES SENSATION IN CASE
Prosecutor, However, Says 1t Is Only
Talk, Which Is Valueless as Evil
dence-Lawyer Declares
His Innocence.


Los Angeles, Cal-Bert H. Frank
lin, an investigator employed by
the defense in the Mcnamara case,
was held to the superior court to an
swer charges Of bribing juror. Dur
ing the hearing the name OF Clarence
S. barrow was mentioned, but Frank
lin made statement saying the Chi
cago lawyer was not implicated in
the affair in any manner whatever.
The statement was called out when
Robert F. Balm, sworn juror in the Nc
Namara case, testified that Franklin
had told him, when arranging for the
bride, that was paid to him, that Oar
row had given Franklin $4,000 ito
use"
George W. Lockwood, the man who
accepted a bribe after informing the
district attorney that he had been ap-
preached. had testified that Franklin
had said that he would see Clarence
barrow to arrange some satisfactory
payment of the money promised Lock
wood. Lockwood also said he in
ferred that wnen Franklin promised
to bring the "big fellow" out to see
him, he meant barrow. Franklin, he
said, afterwards asserted he had re-
ferred to c. E. White, the man Sc
lected to hold the money until Lock
wood was qualified and the jury had
returned it's verdict.
Il haven't said anything about this
case" said Franklin after the hear
ing ended. Il know enough to keep
my mouth shut about my own affairs.
But this is different, and I've get just
one thing I want to say. When these
fellows bring into this case the name
of man who is innocent, I'm not 60
ing to sit by and hear it without put
ting in word, and l want to say that
whoever says | ever mentioned the
name of Clarence barrow in connec-
ton with such a matter, tells lie.
Neither did ever mention his having
given me $4,000"
barrow when told of the statement
denied any connection in any way
with the bribery.
ct is only fair to counsel for the
McNamaras to call attention to the
fact that one mention of my name
was in conenction with hearsay evil
dence when Lockwood testified that
Franklin told him he would ask me
to arrange for the safe payment of
the money and the other was an in
ference that Lockwood thought a man
referred to by Franklin was myself"
said barrow. Those are not in
eliminating. The statement that I
unfounded.. ! know nothing about the
bribery case"
The testimony of the witnesses
mentioning barrow was called to the
attention of District Attorney Fred
ericks
'Lockwoods statement is in no way
legal evidence against Mr.. barrow"
Fredericks said. "He told only what
he said was told him, and that is not
legal evidence. We have no evidence
that in any way is sufficient to con-
meet Mr. Darrow either with bride
giving or the attempted bribery that
we have discovered"
The bribery hearing started with
the testimony Of G. E. White. the
escrow man" in the Lockwood case.
White told of negotiations with
Franklin who, he said, asked him to
accept the money and pay it to Lock
wood. He told in. detail of the final
transaction when he received the
money, paid it over and was ar
rested.
i San Quentin, Cal-The Mcnamara
brothers entered San Quentin pen
itentiary, where James B. is con-
demned to spend the remainder of his
life for his confessed crime of murder,
and where John j., secretary of the
international Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers. is SEN
fenced to Is years Imprisonment for
dynamiting in Los Angeles. They were
taken to cell No. 18, in a stone tier
looking out over the prisons upper
yard" Further down the row is the
cell Of Abraham Ruef, who is serving
14-year sentence for bribery in con-
nection with the so-called San Fran
or