The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-30
CHANGE OF VENUE
ASKED FOR SIX
GRAFT CASES
wilkins Wants Gilman. Brozo,
Tossy, Ostrowski. Rosenthal
Mason Tried Outside Wayne
COURT GIVES HEARING
ON PETITION, MONDAY
Similar Action To BE Taken in
Case of Other Defendants
Following Arrangement

Special Prosecutor wilkins filed III
the recorders court, Wednesda.'
mornlng a petition for change of
venue In the bribery cases against
AID Thomas f. Gllnnln, Louis
, Brozo, Louis e. Tossy, Martin J. o..
trowski, David Rosenthal and Frank
Mason. The petition narrates that
II Is impossible to give these defend
ants p fair trial In Wayne county ow-
Ing to their prominence In politics.
The petition includes the afiidavits
OF the Wayne county jury commission
ers substantiating the prosecutor in
his belief that an impartial jury cab
not be obtained In this county. The
affidavits are the same In each case.
The cases against the aldermen
named were to come up in the record
ers, court, Wednesday. Mr.. wilkins
asked the court TO set date for the
consideration of the petition for d
change OF venue, necessitating the
postponement OF the bribery cases
temporarily. Judge Phelan set the
hearing for next Monday noon. Judge
Connolly will set with the recorder
when the prosecutors petition is con.
stdered. The law requires that the
defendants be given four days notice
OF the prosecutors move and copies
OF the petition nave been served on
them.
Aid. Deimel, Theisen. Walsh and
Hindle Will not be arraigned in the
recorders court until Nov. 6, to which
date they were bound over from the
police court. Consequently the peti-
tins In their cases cannot be fled
until then. as until then their cases
are not begun in the recorders
court.
After stating the public record or
the aldermen involved. the petition
filed by Mr.. wilkins, says:
From the nature OF the public Of
fees held by such persons, they have
wide and extended acquaintance
among the citizens OF such commun-
ity, and said arrests and said charges
above mentioned, created great and
widespread public excitement in the
city or Detroit, and were and still
are, as also has been and still is the
question OF the guilt or innocence or
those arrested, among them the said
defendants In the above entitled
cause, the subject OF widespread and
general discussion among the citizens
and electors OF said community, from
among whom the petit jurors for the
trials of causes In this court are se-
lected and drawn.
Certain OF the newspapers pub
lished and circulated In said city ana
circulating among and widely reaL
by the residents of said city have
since said arrests and during said ex-
aminations and up TO the present
time, attacked the method in which
said prosecutions were being conduct
ed and carried on, and have attacked
the prosecuting attorney Of the coun-
~ OF Wayne In connection with,
among other things, the Conduct or
such examinations and prosecution
OF said charges, and have, by the
character OF their reports and by
their said attacks and their COM
ments upon the prosecution and upon
the prosecuting attorney, and also by
their publication of attacks upon the
chief witnesses for the people in this
cause, and other causes mentioned,
belittled the charges involved in this
case =" and have created GER
tain sentiment hostile to the prosecu-
ton which sentiment Is
serious obstacle in the way of a fair
and impartial trial of the above en-
titled cause"
Then follows the affidavits of Thorn
as May. NJ. Gore Van Antwerp, Thorn
as f. Newton, Pontus Wood, and Dun
can z. Graham, the five members
from Detroit Of the board Of jury com-
missioners.
The affldavits are practically the
same in each instance, stating that by
reason of the widespread publicity
given the bribery cases, the commits
sioners believe that 1t Is impossible
to obtain jury unprejudiced to give
the defendants a fair and impartial
trial