Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-17

: IF you had no evidence i~ndepend-
ent of the testimony of accomplires.
said the Judge. you must find the
defendant not guilty.
Admission made TO accompliees hr
the defendant should moi be regarded
as corroborative. The testimony u
a feigned accomplish. however, does
not require eorroboration.~
This instruction applied 10 Lock-.
wood
The trial of Clarence S. BARROW,
chief of counsel for the McNamar4
brothers. was the result of an indicf-
ment by the county grand jury for
the alleged bribery of George s.
Lockwood, a prospective juror IN the
Mcnamara case. and followed the
abrupt ending last November OF th8
trial of J. b. Mcnamara for the dyna-
hitting of the Los Angeles Times
building. On November Is. 1911. Berx
H. Franklin, chief of detectives ~
the Mcnamara defense. was arrested
for the bribery of Lockwood on.
December / the McNamara brothers
pleaded guilty. J. b. McNamara u
murder in destroying the Times build
ing, and ]. J. Mcnamara to dynamis-
ing the L~diewellya Iron Works.
On January Is Franklin szad6
confession 10 Assistant District Az
torney Ford that he had bribed Rob-
ert F. Balm. the first juror sworn 70
try the Mcnamara case. and that ne.
had sought to bride five other PROS
pective jurors. including Lockwood.
The latter had reported early in No
vember TO the district attorney that
Franklin had approached him and
from that time he acted under the in
structions of the prosecutor.
Pleads Not Guilty to Indictments
On January 20 two indictments wera
reported by the county jury against
barrow for the alleged bribery OF
Balm and Lockwood and upon arraign-
ment the lawyer entered pleas Of not
guilty.
The trial on the Lockwood indjrt-
ment was begun on May 15 and just
thirteen weeks and two days elapsed
until the Ease went 10 jury. making
it the longest criminal trial ever held
in Los Angeles county. During that
time approximately two million words
were transcribed by the court re-
porters for which the cost to the
county was something like 5000 The
entire cost of the trial was close 10
$50. 1000.
In the main case Of Tx prosecution.
which began with the completion OF
the jury on May "A. thirty-eight Wit
nesses testified and exactly the sams
number of witnesses We're introrducsa
by the defense. On rebuttal the NUM-
Der of State witnesses was sweiled &c
fifty. The prosecution rested On July
S asd the defense ended on August 5.
after a long cross-examination Of
barrow, who occupied the stand for
a week. Four days were required for
the States rebuttal and both sides
finally rested on August 2.
Accused of witness-tamperinE. -
In presenting the case ar
row the prosecution proc !
dence ~purporting to show IN
dition to the alleged corruh
Jurors, Darrow had been GU
tampering with STATE witnesses
McNama case.
The chief reliance of the defnse n
that the agreement between proseck
ton and defens undr which the Me-
McNamaras entered their pleas %
guilty, was made prior TO the alleged
bribery of Lockwood and that there
was, therefore, no occasion for corr
rupting jurors. It was also maine
tanned throughout that barrow was
the victim Of a .frame-up' on the
part Of Franklin and the authorities.