The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-05-23
AUSTIN ASSAILS
GROVE ON QUIZ
OF PAROLE HEAD
Both Prosecutors Play
fractional Politics


OF Will county, assistant 20 States
Attorney REIN, denounoes the "un-
fair tactics" OF the Cook county spe-
cial grand jury.
He points out that on two occasions
the Cook county special grand jury,
which was formed by Attorney-Gen-
eral Carlstrom at the direction of
States Attorney Grove, grabbed"
witnesses that he had asked them to
locate for the Wills county grand jury
and had them testify before the Cook
county grand jury.
AS soon as they had testified, their
testimony was printed in the Chicago
papers and then the VIII country
grand jury investigating the murder
Of Deputy Warden Peter Klein by
seven escaping convicts was given its
opportunity to question them.
Austin assailed the actions of
States Attorney Groves special grand
jury, declaring they seem more In
terested in the parole scandal than in
the McSwiggin murder"
States Attorney Grove is on one
side Of the political fence in the open
shop republican party and Len Small
is on the other.
The Deneen-Lundin-Sma alliance
y,Io hn hat Ufofo M
States Attorney William McSwiggfn
was killed while In the company of
two notorious Chicago bootleggers. A
list of saloons with prices that the
saloonkeepers paid either for protec-
ton or booze was found on the body
Of Thomas Duffy, one of the murdered
bootleggers.
Coroner Oscar Wolf, a political op-
ponent of Grove, had the coroner's
jury begin an investigation as to the
facts in the murder case. Grove, fear
ing an expose of the real conditions
under which McSwiggin was killed.
Immediately impaneled a special
grand jury. The appointment of
this grand jury was bitterly as
sailed by many businessmen's asso-
Citations, who pointed out that no real
investigation of the connection of the
States Attorney Groves officer with
gangland could be held with a grand
jury picked by his man Friday.
The Grove jury began Immediately
to probe away at the misdeeds Of their
political opponents, instead of the cir
cumstances leading to the McSwiggin
murder. Their first step away from
the probe into the conditions sur
rounding the McSwiggin murder was
an investigation into Major M. A.
Messlein's pardon mill" and the con-
nection between this pardon mill"
and the Len Small appointees, VIII
| Colvin's and Chauncey jenkins par
don and parole departments.
Warden John L. Whitman is now
writing articles in the Chicago Her
aid and Examiner, a Hearst sheet
which supported the Crowe-Barrett-
Thompson alliance in the April Is pri-
mary campaign, in which he attempts
liet penitentiary. In one of his arti-
cles he assails the viii county grand
jury for attempting to hide the real
facts on the buying and selling Of pa
roles and pardons. His article init
mates that the Will county grand jury
is trying to hide the real facts in or
der to hide the connection between
the pardon and parole boards and the
pardon mill.
The fight between these two grand
juries is an attempt on the part of
the Grove Barrett-Thompson alliance
on the one hand, and the Small
Deneen-Lundin forces on the other to
whitewash themselves Of graft and
corruption charges and blacken the
other in order to gain a greater fol-
lowing for their forces among those
misguided workers and farmers who
vote for the candidates Of the open
shop republican party.
The Deneen-Lundin-Sm forces In
Cook county are contesting the Cook
county and Chicago election returns
for county and city offices, declaring
that the observation-disclosures fac
ton used gunner to terrorize the vot-
ers at the primaries April 10, and that
they stuffed ballot boxes and "doped"
elections returns. A quiz which was
started into the vote frauds was dis
continued as the anti-Crowe- Barrett
Thompson forces decided to contest
the elections in court.
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