The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-04
Especial from United Press,

Especial from United PreSS.) Los Angeles, Dec. 4-Following a statement by Mrs. Robert Bain. wife of the first permanent juror accepted by both sides in the McNamara case. that she accepted $500 as earnest moneys on a bribe which was to have been s5,Ooo if her husband disregarded the evidence against James B. Me Namara and voted directly for an ac- auital, came the announcement from the district attorneys office, today, that District Attorney Fredericks is withholding much evidence of the Sravest importance. It is unequivo- calIy stated that much of the evidence is of such a character that it has not vet been explained by persons connect cd with the bribery charges and the McNamara defense.
 Mrs. Bain declares that she was giv- en the money after her husband quali- lied as juror and that she turned 1t over to the district attorney to be held as evidence. She says she can not tell who gave it to her.
 V Mrs Bain said touday:
 'I will not say who it was but 1t was not this man Franklin. The district attorney has that information in his hands, too. 1t may all come out at the Franklin trial
 It was announced at Fredericks of flee. this morning, that the Franklin trial. before Judge Young. would be George N. Lockwood, the prospec- tive McNamara juror who worked with the district attorneys detectives i in the arrest of Bert Franklin, chief of detectives of the McNamara de- fense has, 1t is asserted. by the pros <rn+y .Eaf nV,E, of the most prominent figures in the McNamara trial as the man who 1 Joined Franklin a few minutes after the money was passed to Lockwood. Detective Samuel l.. Brown. who par ticipated in the arrest. declares this individual was on the scene immedi, ately after the money was passed, and just as the arrest of Franklin was made. When seen at his. home, short Ily after 2 o'clock, this morning. by representative of the United Press and told of the reports circulated about the district attorneys office, Clarence Darrow said he did not care to make any extended statement, at this time. adding:
 .sI know absolutely nothing about this matter. All can say right now is that I am ready to answer for my actions, if the district attorney wants me"
 Los Angeles, Dec. 4-Unless the big business men of this city, who insist that they arranged the compromise in
 the McNamara trial that resulted in
 the pleas of guilty to dynamiting, in |terfere because they do not desire this vertising, a bribery scandal is likely
 ro develop here within the next 10 days which may far eclipse the orig
 inal McNamara case. This was indicated today. when Judge Young granted a continuance for week of the hearing in the case against Bert H. Franklin, chief detec-
 tive for the McNamara defense, ar
 rested on charge of bribing George Lockwood, a prospective juror. The
 motion for the continuance came from
 the defense, and was not opposed. District Attorney Fredericks refused
 to discuss the case, but from a source close to the prosecution the following facts were learned:
 Fredericks considers that he has ab-
 Solute proof that two jurors who were
 sworn to try the McNamara case, were Ibribed, declaring one was promised
 s. 900 and the other $4.000 if they would
 sible. If not. they were to hang the
 jury. Fredericks said he expects the two accused men to confess, and it is
 already rumored that the wife of one
 has given important information to
 the prosecutor.
 In addition, Lockwood, of whose in- |tegrity Fredericks speaks in high lterms, has identified a. picture of one of the noted figures in the McNamara
 case as an individual who was with Franklin at the time he al eges $4, ,0o0
 was passed with which Lockwood was to be bribed. Lockwood, according to
 attaches of the district attorneys of
 flee, later identified picture of the
 nan who had accosted Bert Franklin
 immediately after it was alleged the money was passed and who, according to Lockwood's story, said to Franklin
 at that time:
 Wells. it's all right"
 Why this man was not arrested at
 the time and whether he will be at all, ss one of the mysteries of the case. IThe fact that, so far, no action has
 been taken, lends color to the asser-
 ton that big business men of the city, hearing that unwelcome advertising
 might interfere with the expansion of
 the city, are bringing powerful infiu- ences to bear to have the whole mat
 ter dropped.
 These men believe the effect of the
 McNamaras' pleading guilty means the defeat of Job Hartman, Socialist-La-
 bor candidate for Mayor, and the So-
 ciaiist ticket at tomorrow's election
 Hartman, after winding up his polit- Ecal campaign, today declared that he considered himself stronger than at any time since the campaign began, and expressed confidence of election.
 The election of Hartman would
 mark a new complication to a situa- ton already puzzlingly complex. He Frouldson assuming office, take charge
 bf the city police department. The
 Socialist city council, which would
 probably be swept into office with him.
 would immediately repeal the anti
 picketing ordinance, the enforcement
 pf which was one of the primary fac
 tors that resulted in the Times-Lle-
 wellyn Iron Works explosions. In, the
 event of Harriman's election, the fu-
 ture of the Golden Rule'' movement
 would be in doubt.
 Some of the participants in that
 philanthrophy just now are members
 bf the old guard of Republicans-Gen-
 eral Otis, head of the machine; Meyer
 Lissner. head of the Good Government
 Organization, and others of like prom
 hence.
 The Golden Rule' members them
 selves insisted that Hartman would be
 ~i9orous executive.