Show f A BAFFLED JURy l < J A Movement to Again Indict John Connelly PERSECUTION PROSECUTION TheGrand Jury Minus a Witness who Takes the Underground Rail way and is Non Est It was whispered abroad yesterday that Mr John Connelly the gentleman who was recently acquitted of the charge of polygamy by reason of his having been married before the passage of the Edmunds law under which he was tried was to be again arrested and put upon trial for unlawful cohabitation cohabita-tion The rumor gave it out that he and others had been summoned before the Grand Jury and tracing up the report to one of its sources a HERALD reporter obtained the following information infor-mation On Thursday evening last Deputy Marshal Mar-shal Ferguson called at Mr Connellys store and subpoenaed Annie Gallifant and Sarah and Barney Gallifant to appear ap-pear Friday afternoon before the Grand Jury They with Mr Connelly were promptly on hand at the witness room where they found Messrs Nichols and Diehl who were on the jury when Mr Connelly was tried Annie Gallifaut was examined and afterward informed Mr Connelly that she had refused to answer certain leading questions in relation re-lation to him whereupon she had been dismissed As she and Mr Connelly were leaving the room Mr Varian entered it On learning that she had refused to answer the interrogatories of the jury Mr Connelly was under the impression that that would not be the end of that matter and consequently induced her to procure apassage on the underground railway which she at once I did and left for narts unknown We said that as the two just named left the room Mr Varian entered and we were right In an excited manner he asked for Annie first and then for Connelly and judging from the racKet inside a person on the outside would have supposed sup-posed he was raising Ned because the inquisitors had allowed her to leave after committing contempt and this supposition was strengthened by what followed About an hour afterward after-ward Deputies Ferguson and McCurdy visited Connellvs store and asked for the fugitive Annie and were informed that she boarded one of the cars on Mr Variaus railway and was non et Where she was he did not know she was not at home Had they found her it was surmised she doubtless would have been penned for her contempt A day or two ago Mr Connelly got wind of a circumstance which has led him to the belief that the present move to harrass him and deprive him of his liberty is the result of a feeling of ani mosity engendered by some friends or his sister with whom it will be remembered I remem-bered he had some difficulty at the time of the Miles trial He learned that an official connected with the Third District Dis-trict Court remarked that he kept his business very quiet and would in all probability never have been troubled if he had not quarreled with his sister1 j but her friends were now going to see this case through and put him in the Pen if it were possible This story he heard reiterated in another quarter with the addition that those secret and treacherous enemies who were interested in persecuting him had enlisted the counsel for the prosecution in their behalf The were seemingly determined to do all in theirpower incarcerate him j they everything on their side favorable toward attaining that enda judge and a willing prosecuing attorney On the face of it with the preceding evidences of persistence in pushing this second caseIt smacks somewhat of persecution per-secution and is not free from a taint of i revenge on the part of those U honest and straightforward American gentlemen gentle-men whose ire he has apparently raided f 1 Mr Connellv was not arrestedyester night and it was not known whether an indictment walljiow be found against him |