Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-08-03

Happy Felsch. Chick Gandil. Joe Jack
son, Claude Williams, Charles Rfs-
berg and Eddie Cicotte--the for
mer players-and Carl Fork of
st. Louis and David zelcer aof
Des Moines. was returned shortly
before midnight amidst a scene 81 wild
cheering, whistling ana yelling from
500 spectators which would have
seemed more natural in the b!eachers
Of a baseball park than in the digni-
fled court of Judge Hugo
Friend, XII
Judge is Happy.
Judge Friends bailiffs vainly tried
to establish order out OF the pande-
monium which broke loose despite the
judges previous request that no dem
onstration be given when the verdict
was read. With chair overturned and
hats thrown in the air as the specta-
tors rushed to shake hands with the
ballplayers and as the players rushed
to grasp the hands of the jurors.
Judge Friend finally motioned to his
and finally joined in by congratulating
the defendants and telling the jury IT
had returned a just verdict.
Only Nine Held.
While only nine of the eighteen per-
SOnS lilulClcu III IlCL UdSCudli luNSollS0@
ton were defendants when the case
ended. it is believed that the baseball
scandal has forever been swept from
the books so far as the COURTS of Cook
county are concerned. Bill Burns
case was dismissed in return for his
evidence for the state and during the
trial the cases OF Ben and Louis Levi
of Kokomo, Ind. were dropped. Abe
Attell, Hal Chase, Fred McMullen,
Richard Brown Of New York. j. J.
Sullivan of Boston and Ben Franklin
Of st. Louis still are under Indictment,
but it was reported at the states at
torney's Office today that their cases
would be allowed to lapse through the
statute of limitations.
Only One ballot.
The attorneys for the prosecution
had little to say Of the case. but the
one ballot was taken by the jury as an
absolute vindication of the defend
ants. The jury was not ready to re-
turn its verdict until two hours and
forty-seven minutes after receiving the
case, but most of this time was taken
in signing the verdicts. Each of the
twelve men had to sign each of the
nine verdicts, a separate verdict being
returned for each defendant:
Today the jurors expressed surprise
that the case had been allowed to
drag through five weeks. While re-
fusing to permit use of their names
in discussing the case with reporters,
every juror declared that the defense
would have received the same verdict
had it. sent the case to the jury with
out presenting any witnesses or max
ing any closing arguments. .
w thought the state had present
ed a weak case,' said one juror. 1T
depended entirely on Bill Burns and
Burns did not make a favorable i'm
preston with any of us. We felt from
theitime the state finished its evidence
that we could not return any verdict
other than not gully and we used stc
privately wish there were some way
to let the defense attorneys know that
1t. was unnecessary to go further"
The jurors refused to say whether
in reaching their verdict they were Of
the opinion that there was no attemp,
to throw games in the 1919 worlds
series or whether it. was based on the
contention that the state had failed
to prove it's charge that there was in.
tent to defraud the public and variou.
individuals through the throwing Of
the series.