Arizona republican., 1920-10-01
WILL PROSECUTE
 GULL Y PLAYERS JUDGE DECLARES
Republican A. P. Leased Wirel

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 IRepubIican A. p. Leased Wire1
 CHICAGO, Sept. 3o.-A declaration that the investigation of the 1919 world series baseball scandal would be con 1 tinued by the Cook county grand jury, which will be constituted a special grand jury was made in a stat enaent i issued today by Chief Justice Charles ! A. Mcdonald. who ordered the inquiry. | Every suspicious game. he declared. | that has been played within the last | IS months in either the National or | the American league will come within | the purview of the investigations.
 The investigation. which has result | | ed in the voting of true bills against i 1 eight players and former players of the White Sox. including Chick" Gan 1 dil, who was not with the team this year the judge declared. still has much to accomplish. ITO this end" he add ed, the present grand jury will be
 incorporated as a special body Satur- day and will go ahead until it has sift ed down the evidence to the last in
 criminating fact. Every suspicious
 game which has been played within
 the last s months in either league will
 be within the purview of the investi-
 gation Because of the statute of lim-
 itation. that is as far back as the jury can go.
 There need be no doubt about the
 prosecution of guilty players and their
 CO., -conspirators. None of those who
 have confessed has been granted i'm munity: in fact, each has specifically waived it. Of course, it will be natural for the prosecutors to take into con sideration services which the indicted !. men have performed for the state. but that does not mean they will escape indictinents.8
 August Herman. president of the
 Cincinnati Reds last years pennant winner. and former chairman of the !. national baseball commission, who was r asked by the, grand jury to present t whatever documents he may have e bearing on the 1919 series. and Clyde Q Elliott motion picture man, who aided ,. Charles Comiskey, president of the
 Chicago White Sox. in his investiga- f ton of the series. arc 10 be the next q witnesses before the grand jury, it was c said tonight IL also was asserted that - efforts would be made to obtain state ' ments from two additional White SoS A players who have been suspended as e to their part in throwing games. m Swann Offers to Aid Prosecution )f NEW YORK, Sept. 30.-On the eve
 of the investigation 10 be conducted l. by District Attorney Lewis of King: .- county concerning rumors that tho 'n coming world series had been fixed, SC District Attorney Swann tonight sen id 8 letter to States Attorney Hoyne O 'i. Chicago. offering his assistance tS 6l prosecute those indicted for the al in ieged scandal connected with the 191.
 series. Mir. Swann's offer was mad'
 contingent upon Mir Hovne findin:
 that some part of the alleged felon,
 was committed in New York countr
 The Chicago authorities seem t,
 have well in hand the case of tn
 crooks who were willing to debase th
 great national sport of baseball fo
 their own sordid ends" said Nj
 Swann's letter. "The crooked gambler
 who aided and abetted. procured an
 advised the throwing of the game m seemed to have planned the scheme i 'lt part in New York and consummate t it in our city.
 Connecting the scheme 10 defrau
 of course is a misdemeanor and is a F. that our courts could take iurisdicffc ise of, as 1 read the testimony. while vol lc- courts have Jurisdiction of the felor tai committed by the consummation of tf Tn scheme to defraud." ob While President Charles H. ~Fbbe led and Manager WiIbert Robinson of u to- Brooklyn team have no dotbt as
 the honesty and integrity of the he players, both have expressed wiliinl the ness to aid District Attornev Lewis ent his investigations. The district alto en- ney declared that he had heard vag1 ion, rumors that clique of gamblers sir her liar to that which bribed the Whi rye SoX players last year, was making any attempt to buy the coming woflt
 series. It was his intention he sa' dav to question the Brooklyn players tho srtv oushly as soon as possible Thr the members Of the team. Captain "a i'm Wheat Al Mamaux and James Y ! Taylor, appeared before District 4 aid torney Lewis late today and mia o9o statements Of which a stenograpl .-a report was made. ised .,,i- -ui i1e mis vas asked II an unearthed. He replied; "Absolut,
 nothing The district attorney s; ,,o he was satisfied that the players W, 1w'So w strictly on the level" and that legs Si, purpose in examining the players V nel- e simply to find out if any attempt | ,, s LO5 ! been made to approach them. ~ @ liau President Ebbets said that by S U, oul urday all members of the team V ic@ have appeared before the prosectIt lich' Because of the prominence given U, rIlo'I name in connection with the base, neS scandal being investigated in Chica Arnold Rothstein announced toni 9' !" that he had definitely and conclusiy severed all connections with prot
 siOnal gambling. He win devote
 entire time, he said, to his real est
 business and his racing stable lr C T,othstein's name was brough. ap- tne paseoai scshusl when lL was gen that some oI the ilNefs or the tate- world series apEroacheb Nm 10 D e to- them in the deai ana Wno are saio the have used .iis name to put il thro, Pres My friends know that l have. nc per- been connected with A crooked cea de