Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-12-02

DETECTIVE EMPLOYED
BY DEFENSE QUIZZED
Both Sides Refuse to Talk
on What Transpired Dur
ing Interview, However; |;
Interest in Trial Lags.

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 1.-At the
opening OF court in the McNamara
case today District Attorney Freder-
icks asked 3 continuance until this
afternoon RN o'clock. He did not
state the reason, holding to the COM
ment that he had never asked q con-
tinuance before The request was
granted. 5..
Rumors few thick and fast that the
district attorneys once was inyesti-
eating . report charging that one OF
the sworn Jurors had been tampered
with before entering the box. 1t was
said that q re-examination Of the men
In the boz might be asked for by the
prosecution. This theory gained vide
credenco and Chief Detective Samuel
Z. Browne admitted that such a thing
was not impossible at this time.
Detective on Grill.
It developed that Larry Sullivan,
another pf the detectives, occasionally
employed by the McNsmara defense
for special work, was secretly closeted
with District Attorney Fredericks to-
day. Sullivan who guarded Mrs. Ortie
McManigal when she was in Los Ang-
eles, at T,is understood, summoned by
the prosecution and subjected to q long
Interrogation though what 1t was about
could not be learned.
.Well, did they have you on the
grill?,' . reported asked Sullivan.
The latter's face flushed and he
answered: 5i.5.s E, i.
Il cant say word. -. 5g. e
Sullivan, for some years before his
affiliation with the Mcnamara defense
WAS a Goldfield mining man.
70 Ask Re-examination Of Jurors.
That District Attorney Fredericks
would ask when court convened at
o'clock, reopening of the examination
I of one or more Of the sworn jurors was
the admission made on good authority
shortly after noon today. Members OF
he district attorney staff unofflcially
declared that they had been working
Tor some time on theory that some of
The sworn jurors had been Influenced,
prior to their entering the box.
Is 1ribe Case Center Of Interest.
Further activity by District Attor.
ney John o. Fredericks and his staff
was looked for today in probing the
alleged attempt of Bert H. Franklin
detective employed by the McNam.
ara defense, to bribe q prospective
\ Juror. More arrests persistently have
been hintel at ever since Franklin was
apprehended and released on $4,000
bail on Tuesday His hearing is
scheduled for next Monday.
The resumption or proceedings in
/ the trial Of James B. Mcnamara be.
fore Judge Walter l.. Bordwell. where
! eight. sworn jurors and two talesmen
passed for cause occupied the jury
box, with twelfth venire of fifty
on hand, fell behind the Franklin in
cident early this morning.
That the incident has not yet been
{ fully probed is the contention OF
Franklin who claims he was the vic
tim of political frame up'' and has
declared openly that the district at
torney's Office acted properly in &C
cordance with information that came
to 1t. He says that he is convinced
that further investigation by the state
will show him to be innocent of the
charge.
Franklin will be arraigned for pre-
liminary examination on Monday, the
day before the local municipal elec
ton. Franklin has been chief detec
+ tive for the Mcnamara defense
among whose counsel is Job Harri
man, socialist, and one OF the two can
didates for mayor
The twelfth venire Of fifty was
scheduled to appear today before
Judge Bordwell and present prelimin
ary excuses
Only two more talesmen are needed
satisfactory to both sides for cause
before the fourth round Of peremptory
challenges will again be in order. Oi
these the defense still has seven and
the state five.
Dictaphone Figures in Case.
A bit of twisted wire, dangling
: slantwise from an upper window, to.
1ay led to an investigation by counse
defending James b. Mcnamara whicf
/ convinced them that the walls of thu
Los Angeles county Jail have ears, d
any way one ear, which has heart
many confidential speeches. The wire
runs fsom a window in an unoccupief
room = the third floor of the jai
thrown to another unoccupied room or
the second floor.
! In MeManisal Cell.
Visitors entertained by Ortie E. Nc
Manigal, who Is perhaps the states
mainstay in an attempt to show thai
Mcnamara caused the death of Chas
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