Show LOUIS JUDGE f SCORES BRIBERS k Delivers Scathing to Grand Jury and Orders Orders' It to Investigate the Trolley Line Scandal fl and Indict the Guilty J t ST. ST LOUIS Feb 3 In In a most scathIng scathIng Ing ng charge to the February grand jury just lust Impaneled which he ordered to continue the Investigation begun by bythe bythe bythe the previous body into the charges of bribery in connection with ith St. St Louis Suburban railway legislation Judge O ONeil O'Neil eil R Ryan Yan on the criminal bench of the St. St Louis Circuit court today declared declared de do- dared that crime was a menace to civic and political life It is anarchy Judge Ryan said for it strikes an insidious and deadly blow at government Judge Ryan said In part The work and report of ot the last grand jury revealed appalling conditions conditions conditions condi condi- touching bribery of public daIs These revelations indicate that men in high positions in the social life and commercial activities of this community ty have in their endeavor to secure public franchises f for private t gain not g N aroc lt I hesitated t to bribe members of the Municipal Municipal Mu Mu- Assembly to betray the public I interests and welfare they were elected I to pro protect d No graver danger exists In our midst than this infamous method of robbing the people by corrupting their trusted representatives It Is a menace to our civic and political life Ufe It is anarchy anarchy anarchy an an- archy for It strikes an insidious and deadly blow at government A Swift Punishment It substitutes the debauching debauching- moneyed moneyed mon mon- mon mon-I eyed power of ot criminally responsible combinations and corporations acting through their trusted agents and hirelings hirelings hirelings hire hire- lings and unscrupulous public officers for the lawfully constituted authority vested by the people in the municipal legislative body and by it honestly and faithfully administered The higher the position of ot the per per- sons w who ho bribe or are bribed tIie greater great great- er is their moral responsibility because the more potent for evil Is their wicked but to all who offend be bethey example so they high or low powerful 4 there should be meted out 1 and severe punishment k i I j jIt 4 It is your duty to continue promptly prompt- prompt ly and vigorously this investigation 1 both as to past offenses of ot which are not barred by as to present offending 1 if any there bel of a similar nature None Should Escape L 4 r. r q Have a care that none who are l Innocent innocent Inno inno- no-i no cent shall be brandied but have equal care that none being brought f to T 1 the bar of justice who are In your best V 3 judgment on the evidence presented guilty Z-f Z I I Henry Nicolaus the director of the St i t Louis Suburban Railway company Y J j. j t for whom k kt warrant was issued Saturday Satur- Satur l day in connection with the Suburban d t x bribery investigation appeared in cour v today and gave a bond for for his appearance The bond was signed by by Adolphus Busch the wealthy brewer t Other men indicated also appeared and of 4 renewed their bonds l. l Innocent He Says In regard to the Indictment against c him Mr Nicolaus said i It would seem unnecessary for me to say that I am innocent of any Intent to bribe a public officer I know nothIng nothing noth noth- J Jing ing whatever of the details of the al alleged alleged alleged al- al bribery case except what I have have- re read in the newspapers s 1 As a director e of the Suburban RailWay Railway Railway Rail Rail- way company I have endorsed a great many notes for the company In the course of its financial operations and I 1 signed the notes on which I was In in- in I 1 have at times endorsed the paper of ot the company to the amount of 2000 I will say positively that I am in innocent innocent in- in j of any crime |