Show JOHN H L WALSH HAS ANOTHER I DAY IN THE FEDERAL COURT ClAIMS JURY WRONGED HIM United States Supreme Court Denies Petition for Writ of Certiorari but Hope of Es Escaping Escaping caping Stripes Yet Remains FORMER BANKER NOW DEMANDS A NEW TRIAL Decision of Appeal Expected Today and if Adverse the Banker Will Be Taken to the Leavenworth SOME AFFIDAVITS FILED Chicago Jan few hours after John R It Walsh former president president dent of the Chicago National bank of Chicago and railroad promoter who was convicted of misapplying the funds of the bank had received word from Washington today that the United States s preme court had de denied denied nied his petition for a writ of certiorari certiorari he took another step to ob obstruct his serving five years in the federal prison at Leavenworth Kan Kansas Kansas sas He filed a petition in the United States circuit court of appeals asking that it direct the United States dis district district court to grant a new trial He charged tile the jurors who convicted him with misconduct A on the appeal is to be handed down to tomorrow tomorrow morrow While Mr Walsh sitting In the office m n the Grand Central station received the news from Washington apparently with as much composure as If it w were re merely an ordinary business detail his attorneys became active I DI Attorney Sims had gone into urt with a motion tIt a mandate be issued at one the aged financier er to prison John S Miller one me of at Mj Ir at on t that hat no notice o 0 the supreme courts had been heen Just then a am m appeared In the courtroom with th a t to Mr Sims which read as followS Petition for certiorari in case of John JohnR R It Walsh against the United States de today It was signed b by James H McKenny fork of nt the supreme court Mr Ir Sims then asked an Immediate man mandato mandat dato dat ordering the carrying out of the prison sentence Mr Ir Miller demanded a stay until a of the decision should be re The question together with the app appeal al for tor a new trial then went over until tomorrow Alleged M Misconduct Th Ph evidence alleging misconduct of the jurors upon which Mr Walsh hopes to obtain a new trial was contained in affi affidavits davits filed by Elbert Palmer and Charles Davey In Palmers affidavit he asserted while acting as a juror he was sick and he signed the verdict ot of guilty under pressure from the other jurors He as that said jurors continued their persecutions sad nd that finally he gave way to his emotions and began to weep when the juror Brown began to abuse the at fiant and applied to him epithets and op names such as big foot great big bab baby big calf and the like thereby greatly humiliating affiant and causing him to suffer great mental anguish and his mental and physical dis tr tross ss S J E Taggart foreman ot of the jury signed an affidavit In which he said Palm r went to him after the verdict had been sealed and asked him to unseal it and scratch off Palmers name He said hp he refused to open the verdict telling Pamer it was against the law |