Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-03-19
SENSATIONAL JUlI
BR|B|NG G A1RGE
Tracy Bangs, Harry CO II and
Others Under Arrest.

Grand Forks, March 16.-Satur-
day afternoon profound sensation
was created in this city when Tracy
r. Bangs, we'll known attorney, was
arrested on the charge of having
been implicated in an attempt to
bribe certain jurors in the Mclean
Cooper murder case, brought here
from Hillsboro for trial two years
ago In addition to Mr.. Bangs, Coop
er's father, Harry T. Cooper, a well
known farmer near Hillsboro, was
also placed under arrest on the same
charge. 10th defendants immediate
ly furnished bonds in the sum of $5,-
900 each. One of the jurors in the
case, A. G. Stevens Of Grand Forks,
Mclean Cooper of Hood River, Ore,
the defendant in the murder case; J.
q. Mahon of Inkster, and J. A. Sulli-
van, bailitf, were also placed under
arrest, charged with being implicated
in the same affair.
About three years ago young Coop
er became implicated in a quarrel
with Charles Ross, foreman on the
Cooper farm, in the absence of young
Cooper's father. A dispute arose
over who had charge Of the affairs Of
the farm, and in the row the fore
man was shot and killed by young
Cooper, who was placed in the county
Jail at Grand Forks. Atty. Bangs
was the leading lawyer for the de-
tense, and after the trial Cooper left
for the state of Washington. where
now resides.
Atty. Bangs Statement.
II don't think it would be proper
to discuss through the press, or 9TH
erwise, matters pending in court, but
I embrace this opportunity to assure
my friends that am innocent of any
charge made against me, and when
judgment is finally entered will be
fully exonerated."
Bismarck, March 17.-Extradition
papers for Mclean Cooper were is
sued by Gov, Hanna yesterday, and
deputy sheriff left for Hood River,
Ore, last night to bring young Coop
er to Grand Forks, where he is want
ed in connection with the charge of
bribing jurors. Atty. F. D. Fee
than appeared for Cooper at the
hearing before the governor, and
States Atty. Burtness of Grand Forks
county, for the state. Atty Feetham
made the statement that Sullivan,
former bailiff in charge of the jury,
whose affidavit caused the arrest of
Atty. Bangs and Cooper's father, and
one of the jurors, had no standing in
the state and community, and affi-
davits of citizens were produced say
ing that they would not believe him
under oath. 1t is intimated that on
the return of Cooper he would be
served with papers in a $4,000 civil
damage suit for the killing of Ross.
Grand Forks, March 17.-In an aff1-
davit presented at Bismarck. in the
Cooper jury bribing case by the pros
ecution, Mclean Cooper is charged
with having personally used money
to influence the jury in the murder
trial in which he was acquitted here
in 1911. The affidavit of R. w.
Bradfield of St. Paul, who says he Is
in the real estate in that city, de-
clares that he overheard conversa-
ton in the Imperial hotel at Port
land, Ore, on Jan. oath, in which the
question of bribing the murder jury
was discussed between Mclean Coop
er and J. A. Sullivan, the states wit
ness in the proceedings. Bradford
says he was concealed in a hallway
entering into a bathroom of the room
in which the conversation is said to
have been held, and took down the
conversation in shorthand. The con-
versation admitted that money was
placed by Cooper under a window for
the bailiff to find, and with which to
buy booze for the jury.
According to Bradfield he and Sui
Ivan went from st. Paul to Portland
for the purpose of getting such infor-
nation as Cooper might give.
OLDEST ELK PASSES AWAY.
0wnssO Mich March 14-Daniel