Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-01-29
$4,000 FOR
FIXING JURY
Darrow, 1t Seems, Expects
to Be Indicted Late This
Afternoon
ROGERS WILL DEFEND HIM
Many of the Checks Issued by
McNamaras Have been De.
stroyed, Says Miller.

tBy Special Leased Wire &c New Me1vcanl
+ Los Angeles, Calf, Jan. 29.-One
OF more Indictments will be returned
today based on allegations OF jury bri-
/ berry in the Mcnamara trial. Deputy
District Attorney w. Joseph Ford
made this statement just before the
convening Of the county grand jury
which has been investigating the
charge, that the Mcnamara defense
maintained fund for the corruption
OF jurors and witnesses in the dyna-
miting trial.
Attorney LeCOmpre Davis, one of
Clarence DarroWs assistants in the
defense of the Mcnamara brothers,
was called as a witness. Davis said
he had not been subpoenaed but
merely requested to tell what he knew
Of the operations of Bert H. Franklin.
the detective arrested two days before
the McNamaras made their sensation
al confessions of guilt last November,
ard who is now awaiting trial on the
charge of having bribed Juror Robert
Balm, and attempted to bribe venire-
man George n. Lockwood.
Information that the finale of the
bribery investigation was imminen>
spread rapidly, and Clarence DarroW,
formerly chief counsel for the McNa-
maras, who has been living ut Venice,
a seashore resort, came up to Los An
geles and went directly to the office
of Earl Rogers, whom he has retain
ed to represent him If need be" All
rumors of indictments have centered
about Darrow, who had supervision
over the disbursement Of the $225,000
said to have been raised for the de-
tense of the confessed dynamiters
Grand Jury Report This Afternoon.
Rogers said Darrow would await
the report OF the grand jury, which
took a recess until o'clock this aft
ernoon, before making any statement.
Il am expecting to be tIdicted,'
said Darrow today, "and l might as
well be prepared for it.
Il engaged Earl Rogers of this city
TO represent ne. and Judge Cyrus F.
McNutt, now of Los Angeles, and for
merly of the superior bench of Indi-
ana. probably viii assist him. Judge
McNutt was associated with me in
the Mcnamara defense.
All I'll say in regard to the indict-
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I that |, knew ntohing about any at
tempts to bribe or influence any juror.
I repeat that steadily. I confidently
hope and expect to be acquitted"
Dsrrow told of having arranged for
bail and of his decision to remain in
! Los Angeles until the case was fin
! ished.
OF all those whose names have been
connected in any way with the allega.
tions, that the Mcnamara defense
| Systematically sought to corrupt jur-
ors and witnesses, only Darrow was
omitted from the list of witnesses call
ed by the county grand jury.
$4,000 for Fixing Juries.
Franklin was summoned. 1t was re-
ported several times that in various
| conferences he had with Ford, the
| prosecutor, he had been offered i'm
| nunity if he could tell who were the
higher up" in the alleged campaign
Iof bribery. Although summoned be-
fore the grand jury on two occasions
he was never actually examined, and
two weeks ago he pleaded not guilty
to the two bribery charges filed
against him. His trial has been sci
for February q.
According to the allegations of the
state, based on information said tc
have been given by Franklin, to the
men he is alleged to have bribed OF
tried to bribe, the Mcnamara defense
set aside a fund of $4,000 to be uset
in fixing jurors"
S4,5oo Rrihe Money.
District Attorney Fredericks has il
his safe $4,500 that was taken from
Lockwood and Franklin at the time o
their arrest. Lockood was in the con
fidence of the prosecutors at the time
and was released Immediately afteI
Franklin was placed in Jail.
Balm and Lockwood were the princi
,, pal Witnesses called by the grant
jury. The accounts of Darrow ant
other attorneys associated with hin
were closely scrutinized.
, Mcnamara Checks Destroyed.
/ Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 29.-Man,
check books, showing to whom ]. ]
Mcnamara paid money to carry OF
dynamiting from December 1909 tt
: his arrest last April, it was learne,
today, have been destroyed or at leas
+ put beyond reach of the federal gran,
: jury, which is investigating the dyna
. mite cnspiracy.
c District Attorney Charles W. Mi
G Ter insisted the evidence was in exis
q ence after McNamara's arrest.