Show CORRUPT NEW YORK JURORS district attorney Is severe in his ind cament rugene A philbin of new york has a poor opinion of jurors grand and petty in that city in an ad dress at columbia university on the district attorney attorneys s office he referred as follows to the corruptibility of jurors there are men on grand juries in new york whose first object Is to protect the political party to which they belong one jury recently refused to issue a presentment be cause the person affected was a good political dorler worl er in the district of one of the jurors the grand jury not in frequently stands between the criel nal and the just penalty ot of his crime the district attorney is confronted with the necessity of attacking police corruption which so clearly exists but he finds it almost impossible to secure a conviction for bribery owing to the character of the witnesses I 1 have seen cases where the moral evi dence was complete that certain jur ors were corrupted and one has con fessel to me IX |