New-York tribune., 1911-11-29
BRIBERY CHARGES
IN M'NAMARA TRIAL
State Detective Arrests lNeStI-
GATOR for the Defence, a Ven
ireman and the Alleged
Stakeholder.
POCKETS Full OF MONEY
Prospective Juror Had Been PAID
to Prevent Adverse Verdict,
and Was to Receive SO, 800
After Trial, Says District
Attorney Fredericks.

! HUU w dS W IbONNAfN ROfD
After Trial, Says District
Attorney Fredericks.
hos Angeles. Nov 2s.-The Ugly
smirch of suspected bribery was trabei
to-day across the trial Of James -. No
Namara for the alleged murder Il
Charles Haggerty. one OF twenty-one
victims Of THE Los Angeles Times dis
astcr
4 Tonight a pleased prosecution ana b.
dumfounded defence took stock 0f the
days work Of Samuel l.. Brown chier
investigator OF the state, who arrested
three men and stacked District Attorney
Fredeyicks's desk high with banknotes
taken from the arrested mems pockets
in Fredericks's presence.
Bert II. Franklin. a former deputy
! United States marshal. now employed ~
the Mcnamara defence as an invest!Ga-
tor. released late to-day on $1,000 casa
bail is to appear in court tomorrow 10
answer charges Of bribery and attempts
ed bribery sworn TO by Brown.
George II. y. Lockwood. an unsum-
moned venireman. and c. T.. CCap)
White, an alleged stakeholder. both ar
rested with Franklin. are at liberty. and.
according to District Attorney Freder-
icks, they will appear as Witnesses
against Franklin.
II, Money Found in Pockets.
Five hundred dollars. taken from Lock-
woods pockets, is declared by the prose-
cution to have been the first payment %
sum which he would receive il lie
should prevent an adverse verdict IN tho
Mcnamara case, and $500 found on
White, was declared 10 be the remainder,
TO be paid when the jury was discharged.
Rumors of a grand jury investigation
to determine where the money came
from flew thick and fast throughout -Es
day. No grand jury is in session, bat
one may be called. This IL not neces-
sary so far as Franklin is concerned.
because his case can bc taken care Of
through an Information fled BY the Dis
trict Attorney Brown said that no
more arrests would be made tonight.
There was nothing commonplace about
the arrest OF Franklin. 1t was no hotel
room. or saloor scene, familiar 10 fol-
lowers OF exposes. ~ former Deputy
United States Marshal acquainted With
criminal methods and the methods de-
vised TO catch criminals through his for
rner employment was Irrested on a street
corner in the heart of the Los Angeles
wholesale quarter in bread daylight.
while a detective. disguised as . llboror.
stood close enough to hear what was
said.
Arrested After Accepting Money. b
Detective Brown, sheltered b. build
ing, was close enough with his assistants
10 ,atch the three men before two of
them could take their hands out Of their
pockets. after, it is alleged, they had
stuffed the morey into them.
So. hands in pockets. the men were
marched TO The Hall of Records, where
the Mcnamara trial is staged. on tho
fourth floor District Attorney Fred
ericks waited for them on the eleventh
floor Hands i'm pockets, they entered
the office. When the hands came out.
Brown declares, the yellow bills clung 10
their fingers
Twenty minutes later Lockwood. the
venireman.. and White. the supposed
stakeholder went out OF the swinging
doors free men, hardly enough time hav-
ing elapsed TO allow the dictation and
signing Of a statement. II this were done.
Announcement that they would appear
against Franklin as state witnesses fol-
lowed them out
Franklin. unperturbed remarked that
the state would ind that it was mistaken
and he'd 40 case.
Questions as TO the legal status ot
Lockwood arose as soon as the report
Of the arrest gained circulation. He had
not been reached by any venire subpoena.
Unless some one other than an officer ot
the court told him ne was on the vcnirs
list he did not know It. II he did not
know he was a venireman he could uot
lhave been hribed technically, to hang"
a Jury or 10 do anything else to II. the
state comedies.
District Attorney Frsdericks however.
asserted that Lockwood ras legally con-
nected with the jury from the momen'
his name was drawn from the jury whe.l
last Saturday
Fredercks holds that when the big list
q. 500 names was made out last Jsnu-
arv every man on il became aware that
he would be summoned at some time or
other to do jury service in the depart
ment in which the Mcnamara trial is
held 1t was from this list of 1,6OJ
names that detectives on both sides or
the case admitted they have been Rt
work procuring as much advance in
formation as possible on beliefs Of
veniremen.
The Mcnamara attorneys as well as
tho prosecution have been exhibiting at
the counsel table during examinations
OF veniremen two big books OF data
When Franklin was arrested and
searched he had on his person various
uapers with notations about prospective
turors and IL generally has been known
about the courtroom that Franklin was
gathering details Ia this connection for
the defence.
Story Of the Arrests.
In his office tonight Detective Brown
made the following statement OF the ar
rest:
II was hard to arrest Bert Franklin. He