The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-05-22
TRIAL Be LONG AND BITTER
LAWYER AND LABOR ADVOCATE
FACES JURY IN LOS ANGELES.
Clarence barrow, Leading Counsel
For Mcnamara Brothers, Answers
Bribery Charge in Court.

Bribery Charge III COuA''
los ANGELES. Rivaling in IN
forest the famous case of the McNa-
mara brothers is the trial which be-
gan here before Judge George II
Hinton Wednesday of Clarence Oar
row on the charge of bribery in con-
pection with the Mcnamara case
Darrow was one of the leading coun-
sci for the seIf-confessed dynamlters
and is under Indictment for brIblng
one If the Jurors selected to try the
NTcNamaras and also for brlblng one
- Nh voniremen. The legal battle
will he a bitter one and the trlal Is
exnected to last two months or long
or barrow will have as chief coun-
sci Earl Rogers, one Of the most sue
cessful criminal lawyers on the "a
cifjc coast. and not the least inter
asting phase of the case is the tact
that barrow himself will assist IN
his own defense. Another unusual
feature of the trial is the fact that
the testimony expected to conVict
him was obtained by means OF the
dictograph, and the value OF thls
mechanical eavesdropper IN Iegal
case will be fully tested.
The people will be represented by
District Attorney Fredericks and by
his assistant, w. ]. Ford, and thse
will have the support of the Burns
National Detective Agency.
One of the strongest witnesses
against barrow will be Bert Frank
lin. who declares that barrow d.
rected him to bride the juror and
venireman. Franklin is the detect
i've formerly employed by barrow
and was recently fined $4,000 in SUI
perior court after pleading guilty TO
giving a bribe Before the county
grand jury which indicted barrow
Franklin testified that barrow dl-
rected his efforts and it is presumed
that he will give similar testimony
at the trial.
Earl Rogers, the chief counsel for
barrow, says his client will be ac-
quilted. Evidence" he asserts,
founded upon the word of an in
formant who has pleaded guilty to
felony is not good, and the case
against barrow is framed upon such
a structure"
Assistant District Attorney Ford is
equally positive that the prosecution
has a convincing case against OAR
row. 81 feel more confident" he
SAYS, that he will be sent to jail
than | did that the McNamaras
would be sent to the penitentiary
before they both pleaded guilty"
Grew Out of Franklin Case.
The Indictment of Darrow is d.
rect outgrowth of the sensational ar
rest of Franklin, who was taken into
custody a few days prior to Dec. l.,
when the accused McNamaras aston
ished the country by entering an UNI
expected plea of guilty. A week sub
sequently the accused detective was
given a hearing and both George N.
Lockwood and Robert Bains, the Nc
Namara juror and venireman whom
he was charged with attempting to
bribe, testified that he had used the
name of barrow in making his over
lures. Franklin, however, exoner-
ated the McNamaras' chief counsel
and entered a plea of not guilty.
His case was taken up by the
grand Jury and about the middle OF
January came rumors that Franklin
had confessed that Darrow was be-
hind the bride fund. barrow through
his lawyers entered denial, and
branded Franklin as q turncoat and
a Burns detective hired by the state
to discredit him. Darrow neverthe-
less was indicted.
Ranking next in importance 10
Franklin as a witness against OAR
row will be John r. Harrington, an
attorney formerly employed by the
accused, who says that barrow ad-
mitted his guilt to him and that this
admission was recorded by the dicto-
graph. 1t is probable, too, that Mrs.
Ortie McManigal, wife of the inform
er, will be called in the case.
A Noted Lawyer.
Darrow, the accused lawyer, is
noted both as a pleader and as a Ia
Dor advocate. He was admitted to
the bar in 1875 and almost immedi-
ately jumped into prominence as an
advocate of labor. He possesses an
oratorical gift that has won him the
reputation of being one of the most
effective jury pleaders in the United
States, and his knowledge of law is
acknowledged to be second to none
in the ranks of labor counsel.
His most noted cases have been
the Chicago litigation against the So
called gas trust, the Debs strike case
the coal strike arbitration in 1902
and the defense of Meyer, Haywood
and Pettibone, whose acquittal he
secured, thereby leaping into nation