Show ATTEMPTED TO JO I TALK TO JUROR JU ORi I 0 Maurice Arrested For Contempt of cf Court I 4 1 PLACED ONDER BONDS BOnOS I 9 COMPLAINT WAS BY E B EI I Xa 9 Maurice was w diet far fec eon con contempt tempt yesterday before J oJ Samuel I W Stewart charged with attempting to Influence a Juror E He we was liven given un tnt until tit tAt Wednesday morning at M It to show bow ca canes can why hi he M should not Ht be beI I To insure re his Ala appearance Mr was WU placed der 1 1 bonds boa a aThe The assertion u is made de In an affidavit by Juror E B that ut Mr j approached hits him relative to a cue case be before beI before fore tore a verdict had kad been Hea returned and I attempted to explain certain natters which the court refused to permit to tobe tobe be brought to the attention of OC the Ike J jury rv during the progress of ot the case ene It to J further alleged that bat Mr spoke to two tw other oth r Jurors about the tess Mr is a J clerk cleric in tile the store awe of I N Lewis LeWi and resides at 48 East at Fourth South tb street treet The lh case cue In vi which it is I alleged that he h b attempted to influence bt ace J was that of Jane Rocca vs va the tile Utah Savings Trust company aa as administrator of the estate tate of Daniel S S Davidson deceased Mr Stick was wu not sot only oab a witness in inthe the case e but ut is I an aa heir bet to some Ie of or the property left The he affidavit of Juror McCarrick making the t complaint against Mr XI after reciting the fact that he was a juror in the case ca and that Mr hir had bad testified reads I as follow fellows folio 1 I I Affidavit t of Juror I That on the evening of the lath l th day of October IMS 1103 1 and while the Ute cue case was waa stilt still pending and aDd before the ver verdict v r diet dict of or the Jury in said aak case cue had bad been rendered the said ald Maurice Stief pI called upon affiant amant at home in said Salt Lake City and stated to I affiant that he desired to speak to him himin himin in relation to the ta case calle now DOW pending I and affiant aMant said to him that he did not DOt wish to hear anything about it He I Isaid said he desired to state some facts In Ini I i relation elation to the ease case Affiant told him i f that he Ae did cUd not wish lah to listen to any MY facts from front him and he said that there i iwa was wa evidence there thel that the judge re refused re refused fused to admit ASlant Affiant told him he did fd not wish to hear hr anything at all 11 about the maW matter and as the said RId was as leaving the t house hou he be said Mid that he ha had bad also seen een other jurors in I relation to the matter m When court convened yesterday ye I morning and the case cane was wag called caned to hear hOar the Ute verdict of the jury Attorney Charles Charle W L Stevens one of ot the I lawyers rs Interested Int re ted in the action brought the matter of or the alleged alJe ed con conduct conduct on duct duet of Mr Mv to Judge Jude Stewarts attention asking that his hia honor either investigate ate the matter or appoint some attorney to look into It The court replied that it was wag aware of ot the alleged facts in the case having issued a a bench warrant for Mr Kt Cera C arrest and aDd that he would look into the t e matter utter himself He then requested reque Mr to Stand aad up while the at af affidavit of Juror rick was read rad I to tf him When Wilen asked a ked if he ht was wu pre pee prepared prepared pared at that time to t make an answer Mr lr said aid I Explains to the Court I Yes sir ai I am ant I called lied on Mr XI Mc Me McCarrick McCarrick Carrick I did cIHI that tUt but in regard to speaking to the other ether Jurors I did cUd not say anything of the kind Although I I told Mr McCarrick that I would like to speak to him of or a matter in the case I that I could have found out here with without without out going gol to his house bouee but it being on the way to the Ute convention I thought I would call upon him with regard reg rd to a matter of the testimony a matter matte 1 in inthis Inthis this case cue in regard r to Mrs 18 Jones Sousa what Wt she testified to Mrs Mn Stash Small had forgot forgotten fOrgotten ten what Mrs Jones Jone had said and i asked akeel if It I would step down to Mr Mc house ant and see if It be he remembered 1 bored it He said he care to listen to anything about bout the matter so soI soi 1 I II I stepped out of his ha house boutte I in his hi house bou more than five minutes alto altogether altogether altogether gether I left lett my home at I and anel got down to the U convention at half halt nest 8 t L I I met Mr r Hampton and anCl another I juror on the way up and d walked with t them I said 14 to Mr Hampton if It the testimony te could have bave been brought out outi I i there have bave been anything to I that case cue And he De said better not sey nay I anything about that case cue That is in all aU that was waa said Id IdI I I Court Administers a Rebuke Mr said d the court when the theman theman C man had bad concluded your conduct iq Iz relation to this is I most reprehensible That you should approach a Juror and say by this what you have now said aid in a aca case e of or this kind nd J is inexcusable I shall shan ask uk that these the e jurors to tn whom this thI wit witness ness floss has baa spoken shell shall disclose what this witness said at that time and I I desire that it shall hall be done in the form of an affidavit I The court wilt order that you ap appear pear peat here next Wednesday morning at t 10 and anel answer to to the thet j affidavit made and lied flied in the ease cue t I After Arter the court had interrogated Mr v relative to his bond and Attorney Soy neT Stevens had bad requested that the af at affidavit of Juror McCarrick be made a apart apart part pUt of the proceedings of the case cue the t Jury was wu permitted to return its ver I diet dict Again fn referring to the matter of i I Mr Kr Judge Stewart said Compliment Por Juror McCarrick Hae Gentlemen the court desires de to thank you for tor the attention and con consideration you have given ven to this case and the court desires to further state I that it commends commend the promptness with i which Juror McCarrick reported the conduct of this witness a to the court Gentlemen you are aware probably probably probably I ably of or the fact tact that your responsibility ity It as jurors juror of or this court is III equally as us great as that of the court itself and I any 07 infringement nt upon the rights of I jurors should be promptly reported to the court I have no reason to believe I but what every member of this Jury would discountenance any conduct that would approach an attempt to influence you in your deliberations but it is of or I such treat great reat importance that improper influence should be kept out of the 1 court and from the juries that the court denounces such conduct as most reprehensible And gentlemen I hope you will bear in 18 mind in iii I the future that when whenever whenever ever ev any aDy one on attempts to approach you OU upon any aD subject connected with the trial of ot a case cue in which you are called to act that YOU yon will do 80 as Mr Kr McCar McCarrick rick and probably ethers of the Jury jUr have done do in tn this cue case and that is i promptly prohibit any anyone one from ap you upon a subject of this I kind I thank you for your attention You Tou may be discharged gentlemen gentleman from the further consideration of the case |