Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1911-12-01
STATE ASKSFOR CONTINUANCE
is SAID TO HAVE BEEN DUE TO
SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
ABOUT TO OCCUR.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS BUSY
IS PREPARING FOR WHOLESALE
PROSECUTIONS FOR ILLEGAL
REGISTRATION.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. AT the
opening of court in the Mcnamara
case today District Attorney Frede-
Ticks asked for continuance until 2
o'clock p. m. He did not state the
reason, holding himself to the COM
ment that he had never asked con-
tinuance before. The request was
granted.
It was rumored that certain Indi-
annapolis Developments interested the
state but this could not be confirmed.
Thirty eight men in the yenire panel
of so were reached with summonses
and of the number Is remained after
Judge Bordwell's preliminary exam
/ ination.
The district attorneys office was
completely engrossed in details of the
alleged illegal registration of voters
and this was given as the reason not
only for the inactivity in the Franklin
case but for the request for early ad-
journment of the Mcnamara case.
Scores and scores of complaints had
to be prepared today BY the district
attorney in connection with kle7 FegsS
istration, as the election occurs on
Tuesday. The alleged election fraud
is to be one of the subjects of inves-
tigation of the new grand jury and it
is supposed that the district attor-
neys Office expected as a result of to-
days work to furnish two good rea-
sons for the summoning at once of
the grand jury-election frauds AMI
bribery attempts in connection with
a Mcnamara venireman.
Franklin was in conference today
with his attorney, Henry T. Gage, 60
ing over details of the defense to be
made at the preliminary hearing Mon
day. Rumors flew thick and fast that
the district attorneys Office was in
vestigating a report charging that one
of the sworn jurors had been tam
pered with before entering the box.
1t was said that re-examination of
the men in the box might be asked
for by the prosecution This theory
gained wide credence and Chief De-
tective Samuel L. Browne admitted
that such a thing was not impossible
at this time.
1t developed that Larry Sullivan,
another of the detectives occasion
ally employed by the Mcnamara de-
Tense for special work, was secretly
closeted with District Attorney Fred
ericks today. Sullivan, who guarded
Mrs Ortie McManigal when she was
in Los Angeles, it is understood, was
summoned by the prosecution and
subjected to long interrogation
though what it was about could not
be learned.
That District Attorney Fredericks
would ask, when court convened at
If2 o'clock. a re4opening of the exam
. ination of one or more of the sworn
: Jurors was the admission made on
; good authority shortly after noon to-
day. Members of the district attor-
! ney's STAFF unofficially declared that
they had been working for some time
on a theory that some of the sworn
jurors had been Influenced prior to
their entering the box.
, Much perturbation was manifested
! by s. L. Browne, chief of the states
! department of investigation, when
he learned that newspaper men had
discovered Sullivan's presence in the
district attorneys office today. He
told one local newspaper man that
: he would not give him the privilege
Of his Office if he printed the Sulli-
van incident. Later one of the at
4 taehes of the district attorneys Of
, fce declared that the newspaper men
!. had spoiled an important plan 1t was
5 said that the intention was to produce
? Sullivan in court suddenly later today
and his visit to the district attor-
ney's office was asserted to be fore