Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-04-04
vIEWED,DEAD
And Confessed
Sullivan Confession Said 10
Rave Followed ! Visit
to Cemetery
alleged 70 Have Looked. At
Face Of Dead Judge and
Then Told All

oulllYdu, lile COulc6ocu jury DIIOCA
in the Malcolm Cooper case, now be.
ing aired here, added a tinge of grue'
someness to this sensational hearing
by admitting on the witness stand
that a visit to the cemetery vault,
where the body of the late Judge C.
F. Templeton is kept and a look at
the features of the dead, who in life
had often admonished him as bailiff
Of the court to be 'circumspect,
prompted him to confess his part in
the alleged jury bribing.
Sullivan said he visited the vault
in Memorial Park cemetery here, in
company with j. C. Stevens, a jury.
man who is now under arrest for
agreeing to accept a bride, who is
caretaker of the cemetery.
Looks Into Judges Coffin.
81 was at the cemetery a year ago
with ]. C. Stevens" said Sullivan.
stevens took me into the vault and
threw back the lid of one Of the COT
fins, saying, take a look at the old
5oy-wouldn't he raise hell if he
knew what went on in that court
room?" ". ': %~
"Whose body was it?' asked Attor-
ney Burtness. n."
Judge Templeton," responded the
witness, as a dramatic hush fell over
the court ROOM.
From that time, Sullivan maintain
ed, his conscience troubled him. He
started to tell the court about going
to a priest to confess, and that his
priest had directed him to do certain
things, when he was interrupted and
no further inquiry as to the confess
sion, held sacred in the courts, was
made.
Sullivan's own explanation of why
he had confessed his part in jury
bribery after nearly two years, is the
first that has been made since the
sensational arrests of several weeks
ago were made. re.
That Sullivan, following his expert
enco at the cemetery, went to St.
Paul, and there first divulged the in.
formation to detectives, is now quite
fully s~ubstantiated. 1t explains why
Sullivan comes forward after such q
long period to relate the story.
J. r. Carley, former cashier of the
Northwestern Trust company, testi-
fled that he had, on behalf of the
ftrusts company, made loans aggregat-
ling 1894 to j. A. Sullivan, during the
progress of the McLain Cooper muir
der trial, and that such notes, some
time later, were taken up by Tracy
Bangs. r
Carley, in testifying to the giving
II money to Sullivan, substantiated
he states star witness in the bribery
prosecutions. "....
Carley said he gave the money to
Sullivan with the understanding that
It was a loan, and that Sullivan, when
re first entered the bank, referred
Carley to Tracy Gangs for recon.
e ndati0n. Bangs, Carley said, rec
,mmended that the money be given
Sullivan, addig that "he though he
(Sullivan) would pay it all right"
That the affair was not carried out
n proper banking methods was ad-
nitted by Carley, who said that he
;arried the account somewhat out Of
the ordinary because Bangs was a
director OF the company, and he was,
at that time, exceedingly busy in the
court room. 'm
Law Partner Pays Notes.
Miss Helen Hamilton, a law part
ner of Bangs, paid the face of the
notes at the bank, no interest, how
ever, being paid. The payment, Car.
ley said, was made after he had call
ed Bangs attention to the account
three times.
J. c. Hart, another BALL, If, testified
he frequently visited the jury rooms
during noon hours and early evening;
that he saw no drinking about the
quarters, except in Andy Sullivan's
own room. He admitted, however,
that on the day the verdict vas re-
turned, Sullivan asked him TO clean
out the DON of beer and whisky
bottles, and that these were all plac-
ed in another room in the hotel,
which he did not previously know
had been used by the Jurors. : u Four
teen to sixteen empty bottles, he
says, were taken from each room 'Oc.
:cupied by the jurors except two or
three rooms. 1ssA2 ~ IaRii - @f,Ilm
hart had not seen, he says, bottles
of beer or whisky secreted in the
court house, as maintained by sulli.
van. Sullivan said there was a con-
slant supply of beer ut the court
house, which was kept in a toilet
busher tank. =@ &a- e .Tfsst ~
On the night tile verdict vas &c
turned, and IN hour before It was
agreed upon. Hart says he went TO
East Grand Forks, purchasing a large
quantity of beor, which he brought
to the court house, at Sulljvans re.
quest.
8 The characterization Of Sullivan
was concluded after he had been on
the stand continuously for four days.
BAPTIST SALE POSTPONED.
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