Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-12
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Coroner's Jury Partial Inquiry.

NoTOHeVS Jury TdTt'd' inquiry.
Austin Lewis, attorney for the In
ionists, was assured by the coroner
that he would be allowed to introduce
witnesses. The jury met, and OH the
first day identified the remains. On the
second day inquiry into the causes of
the disaster was to be made. Two wit
nesses were introduced, who testified
to the smell of escaping gas in the
building before the explosion, and i'm
mediately the coroner's jury adjourned
to meet, sine die, not at the call of
the coroner, but at the call of the fore
man. The jury has not met since.
One glance at the list of men serving
on the grand jury would be sufficient
to convince the average man that the
natural sympatllies of nearly all of
them would be against ,nionism. The
| environment and occupation of most of
them would preclude the possibility OF
any sympathy for the other side. A
closer examination confirms this belief.
| he foreman OF the jury is man
! whose syn,batllies are known to be de-
! cidedly against union labor.
Raymond Wayman, editor of the
Wilmington Journal, has said under
oath that F. w. Sanderson. Jr.. came
| to HIM and requested in the name of
| Charles Weir that an article defama
tory to union labor published in the
Pioneer Western Lunrberman be re-
published i'll his paper. Charles Weir
| was later made foreman CT the grand
Jury. Wayman further says. Under
oath. that Sanderson again came to
INN and, on behalf Of Weir. requested
that the article be not published, and
that he was called on the telephone and
tod that If he would refrain from pub
fishing the article libel suit pending
against him would be dropped The
article was published.
Otis Lawyer In Grand Jury Room.
When the greatest outrage of all was
committed in Los Angeles, the appoint
ment of Earl Rogers as special prose.
cutor' that ne might be in the grand
Jury room and examine the witnesses.
only one paper i'll Los Angeles men
toned the fact. For this. and its stand
since the explosion. it has lost 80 Der
cent OF its advertising All the other
Los Angeles papers are successfully
muzz'ed. The necessity for ADVERTISING
to pay operating expenses made then,
cautious in the beginning, and two con-
ferences with Judge Bordwell complet-
ed the work.
At the second of these conferences
all the papers but the Record agreed
to do as they were told-to saw nothing
about the grand jury PROCEEDINGS. The
managing editor of the Record had mr.
poseiy stayed away. Harry Andrews,
81 the Times, suggested to the court
that he be forced to keep still. Then
the court was under the necessity Of
explaining that it had no power with
which to "enforce the order"
lie paper is still publishing what
little news it is able to CLEAN from the
vicinity of the grand jury room. but
the secrecy of the proceedings and the
attitude Of the onl y possible avenues
~ ,;'ews makes this supply meagre,
In the meantime Earl Rogers. who
has been so closely allied with H,rr;-
son GRAY Otis and other special inter-
e,ts III San Francisco as to be regard
ca more i'll the light of an agent for
them and 4 detective than an attorney
Is 'I'owed to sheer and bully the wit
"eSscs whom h" is introducing to
bolster Up his case, and there is no
protest
Whom Francis J. 1Icncy appeared be-
fore TIE grand Jury in the San Fran
cisco graft investigation, universal
howl was raised 7. was declared that
i'ehcy was a private prosecutor in the
'mpi"y OF Rudolph Spreckes. but Ru-
lrlpil Spreckcls was rot accusing any,
o:e ct blowing down his building and
9''rdcr'ng bis employees, and Hcnev
''d ret been employed by Merchants
al" manufacturers association pledged
~ dcfent an enemy at any cost.
| Mr.. Rogers antagonism to union Ia
Der was 50 well known and his con-
nectlon with Otis and the enemies Of
ore:rized labor so open and undisput
I'd before the disaster. it seems hardly
credible that an American people should
be asked to tolerate his person in the
nrard 'nrv room and still admit that
Justice is being DONE
| he people have not been consulted
IRE nconle have no hand in this en-
vestigation.'
Third Degree for Witnesses.
| Stories Of third degree methods en-
ployed by Earl Rogers to make wit
resses give damaging testimony read
as though they had happened in Russia
instead of America.
| Mrs. LAWN was incarcerated in Jail
i'll Los Angeles because one of the
men said to be suspected had roomed
at her house. Punishment and kind
ness were tried on Mrs. LAWN, and
neither resulted in extracting anything
from her.
Padeauvaris. i'll the employ of the
United Railroads at the time of the
dynamiting here. was virtually in the
house of the United Railroads. but the
master of the house was not arrested.
Why was that?
All the men and women who have
been put on the defensive in Los An
eeles are without money and the wealth
of one of the richest cities of its size
iii the world is pitted against them. and
the press is silent. 1t bellooves all mel,
ard women who believe in fair play to
watch we'll that injustice is not done
The same sentiment is not abroad in
Los Angeles today that existed there on
the morning following the explosion.
ard that even though the press is 81
lert tine chief witnesses afraid Z,