Willmar tribune., 1911-02-01
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JUDGE kIMeRoUGH, MAJOR
PLATT AID OTHERS DRAWN
INTO lNQuisITIoN.
MEN HIGHER UP NOW IN DANGER
City Clasps at List Of subpoenas-Spec.
uIation Rife as to What Judge
e Will Say When Ho
"Tells ALL"


county's grand jury investigation of
vote traffic has involved it's instigator,
Judge E. R. Kimbrough as we'll as
half OF the most prominent Democratic
politicians in Speaker CannOn's home
county who have been drawn into the
inquisition.
Developments:
Judge Kimbrough summoned to tes-
tify before the grand jury
Mayor Platt also asked to testify.
| Bringing up If elections more than
18 months ago, ordered excluded by
Judge Kimbrough.
Courts own election to be examined.
Testimony by Charles Knox, unsuc-
cessful candidate for sheriff nomina-
tion, and Peter Sanichas, prominent
Greek politician. 49,
Mayor and Judge Kimbrough an
nounce they will go before inquisitors
and unreservedly tell all they know.
Blow Falls and City Clasps.
! A list of subpoenas were given the
sheriff's Office for immediate service.
The city gasped at the suddenness
with which the blow fell and at the
names on the list. -.
| Many of the subpoenas are issued in
| direct defiance to the express instruc-
t1ons of Judge Kimbrough to the grand
jury last week, when he said it was
empowered only to investigate alleged
| traffic in votes during the last 18
months.
The courts Interpretation of the law
exempted his own election from the
inquisition.
The order also excluded from exami-
nation the election of States Attor-
ney John H. Lewman and Mayor Louis
Platt. -s
| Following is the list of men for whom
subpoenas were issued, the action fol-
lowing hard upon the appearance of
Charles Knox, unsuccessful Republican
candidate for sheriff at the primaries,
before the grand jury:
E. R. E. Kimbrough, circuit Judge;
Mayor Louis Platt, elected 21 months
ago, Of whom Judge Kimbrough was a
strong supporter Earl Chambers, a
chauffeur, who has been summoned to
explain reports that he drove Candi.
date Platt and Judge Kimbrough, about
the city on the day, of the mayors
election to carry money to the workers
at the polls; James Meeks, master in
chancery of the circuit court; George
L. Harroun, a law clerk in the office
of Master in Chancery Meeks;. Clint
! G. Tilton, editor of the Press-Demo-
crat, a Danville Democratic morning
newspaper. Harry Campbell, Demo
cratic committeeman from the Seventh
ward; Percy Platt, son of Mayor Plat;
Chris Liens. Mayor Platts private sec.
retary; Will Connors, politician; !;
Fred (Dr.) Vutrich, deputy sheriff and
guard at the door of the grand jury
room, who was objected to by Foreman
| woodward, but later was accepted.
! Theodore Anderson, politician; !;
Charles Weese, an election judge at
Westville; Lou Nolan, politician.
Unsuccessful Candidate Heard.
] One witness was Charles Knox,
unsuccessful candidate before the pri-
marles for nomination as sheriff. He
was prepared to explain the rumor that
he had been told by the head of a
local political organization it would
cost him $4,000 for the organization
and $4,000 for that body ito spend -
The report has it he refused and be-
came known as the candidate without
any money" and lost the nomination.
Much speculation is rife as to what
information will be given by Judge
Kimbrough himself, who started it,"
He was asked if he would refuse to
farther back than 18 months-in short,
II he would refuse to testify concern
ing his own election. He said he would
not refuse, but would tell all he know.
Chambers was communicative He
said he was prepared to say he drove
the automobile, that he made several
trips from the First National bank to
different parts of the city, on each of
which bags Of silver were carried. He
said, however, he did not know what
was done with the money.
"o!O1 AnII od1u IAlS ulOuey was
spent chiefly in keeping together his
organization, which he characterized
as the most complete ever brought to-
gether in Danville, having three men
to each block. =
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