The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-29
Prosecution Pleased and Defense DumfOunded at
 Days Developments
ATTORNEY DARROW
 REFUSES TO TALK
Rumors Fly Thick and Fast-Special Session of the Grand Jury May Be Called to Investigate
 the Matter

Los Angeles, November 2S.-The ugly smirch of suspected bribery was traiied today across the trial of James B. Me Namara for the alleged murder of Charles Haggerty. one of the 21 victims of the Los Angeles Times disaster.
 Tonight a pleased prosecution and dumbfounded defense took stock of the | days work of Samuel l.. Brown chief | inv estisator of the state, who arrested | three men and stacked District Attorney | Frederick's desk with bank notes taNen | from the arrested mems pockets in Fred | ercks presence
 B. H. Franklin, former deputy United l States marshal, now employed by the l McNamara defense as ah investigator, re- | leased late today on $1o,oOO cash ball. IS l to appear in court tomorrow to answer charges of bribery and attempted bribery 1 sworn to by Brown.
 George II. N. Lockwood, an unsunl- moned venireman, and c. F. White. an al legged stakeholder, both arrested with Franklin, are at liberty, and according to MT. Fredericks they will appear as witnesses against Franklin. Five hundred dollars taken from Lockwood's pockets IS declared by the prosecution to have been the first payment of a sum which he would receive if he should prevent an ad- verse verdict in the McNamara case and sS5O0 found on White was declared to be the balance to be paid when the jury was | discharged.
 | Rumors of a grand jury investigation | to determine where the money came rom flew thick and fast throughout the ses- sion No grand jury is in session now
 but one may be built. This is not neces-
 sary so lar as Franklin is concerned, be-
 cause his case can be taken care Of through an information flied by the dis trict attorney. Investigator Brown said
 that no more arrests would be made to- , night.
 There was nothing commonplace , about the arrest of Franklin. It was no hotel room, or saloon scene, familiar to followers of exposes, Agnt former United States deputy marshal, acquaint- ed with criminal methods and the meth ods devised to catch criminals through his former employment, himself was arrested on street corner in the heart of the city's wholesale market place by detective disguised as laborer.
 Detective Brown, sheltered by a building was close enough with his assistants to catch the three men be- fore two of them could take their hands out of their pockets, after it is said they had stuffed the money into them
 With hands in pockets the men were marched 300 yards away and then in lcarriages taken to the hall of records. District Attorney Fredericks waited for them on the eleventh floor. Hands h pockets still, they entered the office. 1 Then the hands came out, however, l rip The yellowbacks chung to their fingers.
 Twenty -one minutes later Lockwood, the venreman and White, supposed stalk keholder, went out of the swinging doors free men, hardly enough timo having elapsed to allow the dictation and signing of q statement, if this were done. Announcement that they would apear against Franklin as state witnesses followed them out. Franklin, umperturbed, remarked that the state would find itself mistaken and had no case
 l He said he had not received sub poena. Unless some one, other than | the officer of the court. told him he was on the venire list he did not know, he | vouchsafed. If he did not know he was venireman he said he could not have been bribed to hang jury or any oth- CT technical offense.
 Attorney FredericlSs, however, averre4 that Lockwood was legally connectei with the jury from the moment his name was drawn from the jury wheel Saturday last.
 | Fredericks holds that when the big list of 1900 names was made out last January every man on 1t became aware that he would be summoned at some time or other to do jury service in the department in which the McNamara 1 trial is held. It was from this list of 600 names that detectives on both | sides of the case have been admittedly at work procuring as much informat ton as possible on beliefs of veniremen. l Attorneys for the McNamaras as well as those for the prosecution have been interested in the data contained in two books. When Franklin was searched he had on his person various papers with notations about prospective jurors and it generally has been known about the court room that Franklin was | the defense
 Story of Arrest
 In his office tonight Detective Brown | told the story of arrest
 Tt was hard to arrest Bert Frank lin." he said He has been personal | friend of mine for years and my daugh- ter was soon to have attended his daughters wedding, but 1t was a case of violating the law and personalities | could not count.
 we had been watching both white and Franklin for some time. My sus- pieions were first aroused when l learn 1 ed that Franklin, who knew Lockwood personally went to see him at Walnut Center, 10 miles from here, after they had not been together for year. | | learned that Lockwoods' name was in the | Jury wheel and that he sometime would | be drawn. Franklin did not visit Lock- wood again until the last Sunday when the new panel of 0names was an nounced. Then night and day our detec- tlves watched and one night we were perched in a water tower that overlook cd one of the rooms in Lockwood's s | house. | We traied Frankin's movements as usual today and one of our men followed | him into a saloon. Our man was dis suised. He stood next to Franklin and actually took a drink with him As l Franklin passed out he went to a street | fn md v,o I