Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-12-17
HALL TRIAL
/! HAS STARTED
AT BISMARCK
Efortssof State to Postpone
Case Till After Pri-
maries Failed.
ntorney General Used State
for Obtaining Aft
I: davits, Charged.
The Hail Jury.

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~sn The twelve Jurors who will
ssrhear evidence. in the Thomas.
.sasfiall case are: 80,
ssss Samuel Robinson. Frank An
~Fderson, j. r. Falconer and Fred
~S~SsJosephson, all farmers.
$50 Carl Bredy. a carpenter.
- p. Fl. Howell. manager of a
ssIumber company.
A. f. Marquette. laundry pro-
,sseprietor.
~ Phillip w. Thomas, a drafts
49, Fred W. Hinsey, a clerk.
- a. W. Swartz, a tealnster.
ws Andreas Risen. q photogfa-
Nspher.
s,-s C. N. Hendrix, manager of tho
@tandard Oil company.
bismarck. N. D., Dec. 17.---That for
Mbnths preceding his arrest Secretary
1~State Thomas Hall made a practice
m dipping into the state automobile
Ends for a forced loan whenever he
Y4Anced to be hard up; "embezzling
1.-THE shame and disgrace of the
elte; putting in the cash drawer in
9sace of currency slips and checks
H6st were no good" that during
Made statements under oath-state-
Oont after statement-in which he
@4ted that his Office carried on hand
m ney which he knew he had en-
61Gzled, were declarations made by
yDeisAnt Attorney General Brennan
m,his opening argument for the state
~ the Hall case Saturday afternoon.
re jury was procured late in the
Wernoon.
Less difficulty was encountered than
#8s anticipated.
Elm closing his argument. Mr.. Bren-
M referred to he prosecution of
10y for him, personally, but as a
Sqty nevertheless which the attorney
616peral was bound to respect. He de-
lied money-raising efforts which
fsre brought out in the trial, told Of
Sueged admissions made by Thomas
tall in pleading in the presence of
99Rers that the case be hushed up.
described the examination of
&all's Office by Examiner Edwards be-
9Aning October Is, and told Of Hall
Waking desperate efforts to raise
Imagine his bitter need" said the
k~bsecutor, "'whenSswe find him going
nj man who had been his bitterest
of wf1omsHall had said every
Rng 1t is possible for n man, to
- Of another. and asking him for
p. Hall h~adNraised money from q
&Anker in Mandan. Now we find
Ne1ney being put back into the treas
3Sg. with currency and personal
&ecks."
THAT State Treasurer John Steen
mecipitated action by informing the
61&orney general of an alleged short
&c in the secretary of states office
I'D the arrest and preliminary ex-
G0ination. Hundreds of dollars were
lEssing when ar audit was made in
T16, and it was covered up by fees
&lsm 1917 license tags, which the
Mesretary of states Office had urged
ne bought in advance for the new
:
y. LANCER Files More Afidayits.
SsFears that herand his associates
N0uld not get a fair trial if the case
N9tried here were again expressed by
morney General LANCER Saturday in
an affidavit of prejudice filed after
the selection of a jury had been un-
der way half an hour.
g, In his affidavit the attorney general
6eclared there are numerous causes
Rxisting which would warrant the
transfer of the case to some other
COUNTY and gave a large number OF
them in his af1davit.
The attorney general also chal-
.. r9SAoSN SHS iIldNC III COuI
Aeainst his integrity and AGAINST his
UMcial conduct and asks that the
Ghallengers made good their charges
e Judge Scores suite.
What the court seemed to regard
as an effort on the part of the state
to inject politics into the Hall tria,
vas severely scored Friday after an.
other entire forenoon had been occu.
Pred in arguments on the states mo.
Hon for a change of venue.
THE state had introduced ahidAvits
signed by Isham Hall and others who
We're familiar with the petitions call.
ing for a grand Jury and who swore
that Attorney General Langer's fail.
nEe to act on the alleged frauds 70,
whose investigation a grand Jury ha6
been sought, and his activity, on the
seher hand. in the Hall case, had oc.
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