The Prescott daily news., 1911-01-25
TESTIMONY OF ELEVEN WIT. MISSES IS HEARD BY THE
 GRAND JURY.
STORY OF AN INTERVIEW
Newspaper Man Demands to Be Ex- amined and Tells Tale of AL legged Conversation With
 City Attorney.

Danville, H., Jan 25.-The Vermil- ion county grand jury, which heard the city district attorney accused of having admitted buying votes. has re- ceived list of 50 possible witnesses by the accusers.
 The city attorneys alleged traffick- ing, it was testified, was in the in- terest of the present sheriff at the last general election.
 The jury heard II witnesses, and 12, including E. X. Leseure, Speaker Canpon's son-in-law, are subpoenaed for an early appearance.
 The climax came when the two newspaper reporters who last week sent out a story purporting to contain admissions by City Attorney Frank w. Jones that he had purchased votes, which story was denied by Jones, demanded to be allowed to go before the grand jury and tell their story. When it became known that they would insist on telling their story several subpoenaes were issued, and nine other persons appeared later and were heard.
 Story of Conversation.
 R. H. Frankeberger's testimony be- fore the grand jury brought out for the first time the full story of the Interview he claimed to have had with City Attorney Jones. The con- versation which the newspaper man told the grand jury he had with Jones was approximately as follows:
 F'rankeberger: We have come to see you about this election business.
 Jones (smiling): Be careful I have shotgun in the closet there
 Martin: We're not looking for the shotgun, MT. Jones.
 F'rankeberger: l got the old man (the feporters father-inlaw) this morning, and he was telling me about your election day office in the back of his shop. He said you showed him your poll list
 Jones: Yes; yes, did have one of those lists, but haven't got it any more.
 Martin: Mir. Jones, did you have iiot Oi DOuSIl NOltS dIu dIuOuUIS DdlQ for them?
 Jones: Yes, 1 had a partial list of those, but 1 haven't got it any more: burned 1t.
 Frankeberger: Can you remember the names of any of those voters on the list?
 Jones: Not right off, but might have my memory refreshed by some of those ward captains there in the Second or the Seventh
 Frankeberger: Leseure was before the grand jury, and he lost his mem ory.
 Jones; Well, could refresh his memory on a few points if I was a mind to. There's a lot of those fel- lows whose memories could be re- freshed on this thing.
 The "old man. Fr9nkeberger tes- tiied was his father-in-law, H. NJ. Martin This Martin, who is not re- lated to the newspaper man of the same name, has a butcher shop in the Second precinct of the Seventh ward.
 Deplorable Conditions Elsewhere.
 A tidal wave of election reform threatens to ensulf the eastern dis. trict of Illinois.
 Conditions in other counties in the Eighteenth congressional district are said to be as bad as in Vermilion county.
 In Edgar and Cole counties. ii is confessed votes are bought and sold.
 In Champaign county. it is said. more than 75 University of Illinois students are accused of trafficking in votes.
 Ohio DIsfranohisement to Be Tested.
 West Union, O., Jan. 24.-Attorney
 West Union, O.. Jan. 25.-Attorney $. l.. Patterson of Waverly has noti. ned Judge A. z. Blair, who conducted the vote inquiry in Adams county which resulted in the disfranchise- ment of l,S0o voters, that he is going to test the legality of the sentence in the supreme court, by means of a DC tition in error.