The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-18
One Vital Ballot Frees Man Accused of Jury
 Bribery
CROWD APPLAUDS
 ACTION OF JURY
Second Trial Will Commence Next Monday Afternoon-Trial Grew Out of Dynamiting of the
 Times Building

Los Angeles. August 17.-Clarence s Darrow. the Chicago lawyer who was found not guilty today on the charge of having bribed prospective juror ir the McNamara case, must stand trial on a second indictment according te announcement by District Attorney Fredericks immediately after the ac- quittal.
 Darrow apparently was unconcerned over the statement. He was deluged with telegrams from all parts of the country which began pouring in with in an hour after the verdict had been given.
 The courtroom scene after the read ing of tho verdict s4 minutes after ths jury had retired, was one that has had no parallel in this city.
 Jurors embraced the acquitted mar and with tears streaming down theii cheeks declared it was the happies' day of their lives. Court officials. in cluding Judge Hutton and the hall dozen bailiffs, joined in the congratu- lations and Mrs. Darrow, to whom the trial was a continuous nervous strain stood very happy with one hand ir her husbands and the other wr'ngine those of the jurors.
 For two hours the courtroom scene practically was unchanged except for the grouping about the defendant and his wife.
 Stopped at every step by pedestrians who wanted to shake hands with him, it required nearly a half hour for MT. Darrow to make his way two blocks to cafe, where he and small group of friends went for luncheon.
 Only One Ballot Taken
 "The jury was virtually unanimous when it left the box Chief Counsel Earl Roger said. "The jurors themselves say that only one vital ballot was taken. al- though it was proceeded by two others, cast as 'feelers.
 Mir Darrow's attorneys expressed in- credulity when informed that there would be trial on the Juror Bain in- ,ictment. They asserted that all the evi- dence in the Bain case had been sub- mitted in the trial just ended Two o'clock next Monday has been fixed as the time for the trial of the second in dictment.
 District Attorney Fredericks spoke bit terly late today of the verdict of ac- Quittal.
 We simply could not overcome the damnable atmospheric pressure that counsel on the other side created in the court room,'' he said. ''As long as the court allowed them to do it We were helpless"
 The jury that acquitted Darrow was composed chiefly of ranchers, a third of its members being orange growers, and majority of the twelve independently wealthy.
 History of the Case
 A direct outcome of the ending of last November of the trial of John B. Me Namara for the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building, the trial of Clar- ence S. Darrow chief counsel for the McNamara brothers, was the result of an indictment by the county grand jury for the alleged bribery of George N. Lockwood, prospective juror in the dc- Namara case.
 On November 2s, 1911, Bert H. Frank lin, chief of detectives of the McNamara defense was arrested for the bribery of Lockwood.
 on December the McNamara brothers pleaded guilty. J. B.. McNamara to mur- det in destroying the Times building, and J. J. McNamara himself to dynamiting the Llewellyn Iron works.
 on January 15 Franklin made a confes- sion to Assistant District Attorney Ford that he had bribed Robert F. Bain, the first juror sworn to try the McNamara ease. and that he had sought to bribe five other prospective jurors, including Lockwood. The latter had reported early sn November t. the district attorney that Franklin had approached him and from that time he acted finder the instructions Of tn prosecutor. On January 70 two indictments were re- ported by the county grand jury against Darrow for the alleged bribery of Bain and Lockwood and upon arraignment the lawyer entered pleas of not guilty.
 The trial on the Lockwood indictment was begun on May 15 and just 13 weeks and two days elapsed until the case went to the jury. making it the longest crimi- nal trial ever held in Los Angeles county. During that time approximately 2ooo,opl words were transcribed by the court re- porters, for which the cost to the county was something like s6oo0.
 Cost of Trial
 The entire cost of the trial was close to SW.OO0 In the main the case of the prosecution began with the completion of the jury on May 24. There were thirty eight witnesses testfying. Exactly the same number of witnesses were intro duced by the defense On rebuttal the number of commonwealth witnesses was swelled to fifty The prosecution rested Q. 5, after prolonged cross examination of Darrow, who occupied the stand for a week.
 Four days were required for the state S rebuttal and both sides finally rested on August 9. In presenting the case against Darrow the prosecution produced evi- dence purporting to show that in addi- ton to tho alleged corruption of jurors Darrow had been guilty of tamperinS with state witnesses in the McNamara case.
 The chief reliance of the defense was that the agreement between prosecution and defense. under which the McNa maias entered their pleas of guilty was made prior to the alleged bribery oi Lockwood and that there was therefore no occasion for corrupting jurors
 It was maintained throughout also tha Darrow was the victim of "a frame up on the part of Franklin.
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