The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-06-12
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Six Young and Six
Old M e n Fight
About Holiday.

Waukegan, ILL.,, June 12.-(By the
Associated Press. l-The trial of
Governor Len Small opened its
eighth week today with the prose
cution still presenting evidence in
an effort 10 prove the alleged con-
spiracy by which the governor,
Lieutenant-Governor Fred L. Ster-
ling and Vernon Curtis, Grant Park
banker, are accused of defrauding
the state of between 800 600 and
$2,000,000 in interest on public
funds.
The state expects to complete its
case this week, and it is estimated
that the defense will take three
weeks with another week for argu-
ments.
Norman Griffin, cashier of the
Grant Park Trust & Savings bank,
was the states first witness today,
continuing his examination as to
various transactions which the
prosecution is trying to trace
through the books of the bank
Young BafIiff Removed.
The jury and their bailiffs had
their usual weekend disagreement
over the holidays, it developed to-
day. The latest trouble started Sat
urday afternoon when the state en-
tered an objection of Homer Cook,
young bailiff who was added to
the force a few weeks ago after
the jurors complained their elderly
guardians would not let them stay
out late at night.
Cook was removed and L. \.
Erskine, purchasing agent of the
Waukegan schools, who was per-
emptorily challenged by the de-
fense when called for jury service,
in this case, was substituted.
Six young memebrs of the jury
which has split in its factional dis
agreements along age lines-ob-
jected to Cooks removal, as he
was popular with the younger jur-
ors. They demanded. that they be
taken to Judge Claire c. Edwards
home Saturday evening, and there
protested against the change, but
without success.
May Prevent Verdict.
Lawyers in the case expressed
the fear today that the split be-
tween the six young jurors and
the six older men has grown so
wide open as to prevent their
agreeing on a verdict when the
case reaches them.
The Grant Park Trust & Savings
bank has no record in it's books OF
loans of s750,0O0 to Cudahy & Co,
Chicago packers, Norman Griffin,
cashier of the bank, testified today
Under examination by James H.
Wilkerson, assistant attorney gen
eral, Mr.. Griffin said he had been
unable to find any trace of the
loans in the banks loan record,
and that the endorsement of the
bank on interest checks on these
loans, was not the writing of Yer
non S. Curtis, codefendant with the
governor, his brother, the late Sem
ator Edward c. Curtis, or any other
officer or employe of the bank.
No Record Cudahy Loan.
There is nothing in the books of
the bank by which the interest
checks can be traced either to the
account of Senator Curtis or the
Grant Park bank, the witness said,
after Identifying the items in the
daily cash book
Asking specifically about a loan
by the bank to Cudahy & Co., on
July Is, 1918, of $500,000 Mr.. VIII
kerson brought out that there was
no record of it in the bank.
A discount check for SIT ,402. rs
drawn to the order of the bank by
Cudahy & Co., in connection with
this loan, and bearing the bank S
endorsement, does not appear in
the records.