Show OUR CHICAGO LETTER the cronin case abates nothing in interest on the contrary it developed deve dev lepes elopes new sensations as it progresses it throws all local and even national sensations in the shade and on its account it is feared the pan americans who are now here will not receive the attention due to such important personages so the developments during the past week were such that people are anxiously asking what comes next it was reported today that an attempt at rescuing the prisoners was contemplated the courtroom court room is guarded as rigidly as it was during the exciting times of the anarchist trials a few years ago the cronin me case has outstretched the limits of an ordinary murder it its is now a fight between law and anarchy betge n order and organized nipa rapacity city between decent citizens and bandit outlaws the atI attempted tempted jury bribing business helps to demonstrate on strate the quiet of the men now in custody it also shows that there is some power behind the scenes and that desperate efforts are being maje made to save the prisoners on the whole it is a bad business as one paper says it is a form of base intrigue such as shattered kingdoms of old and brought crowned heads beads to the block it is nonsense to call the cronin c case as e a mere irish affair already are indol invoked ed in it the police the bar aud and nearly every branch of social commercial industrial and political life native irishmen figu figure reso ao insignificantly that it looks tike like a joke to call it an irish conspiracy within the last few days seven persons have been indicted for attempts to corrupt the jury or to procure a coi rupt bupt jury only one of these was a native born irishman and his political sponsors are such that he be might well be classed as an american rhe fhe seven indicted are two court bailiffs ballif lb alexander hanks and mark salamon john graham a notorious lawyers factotum fred smith a 4 shady business man tom kavanagh politician joseph VIDo odonnell nuell ditto and a commission merchant named konen john graham is a native of toronto canada where he be was employed as professor in an educational institution though not a full fledged lawyer he knows more than half the lawyers of chicago in addition to his legal knowledge he is a most accomplished detective give him a shoestring or a collar button and he fie will find the wearer of either he is a pronounced antii I 1 irishman ri and several times during the p past months has volunteered to make one of a party to lynch the cronin suspects among his hie acquaintances quain quaint anew his name is a byword 1 for or the most rancorous antipathy to clao clan na he js private sec rotary to the notorious trude trade family of lawyers 1 there are am three brothers of the brudes Tr udes am lawyers the head of the family fa la in A 8 trude he is better known in chicago tha than ia carter harrison his hia income is now a year mostly derived from real estate he has been a most successful lawden fh hough ough he has never made a speech by some me agency he has invariably found the jury at his side of a case it used ased to be said As trude goes so goes the th ejury jury 11 but butas A 8 trude is isnow now getting old and to is very rich and only dabbles in law when old friends like alexander Suf sullivan livan mike mcdonald or william pinkerton want legal help the brudes are natives of england they bailed baided out grahm graham anyhow it is supposed that graham was employed by some triangle to hang the jury in the cronin case A L hanks the bailiff jury fixer is reported to have made a confession he was employed by john graham to hang the jury hanks was paid 1000 in ia cash and was to receive 1000 more for each juror that would hold out for ac quit tal but this was exclusive of the money to be paid to buy the jurors hanks next took his fellow bailiff balli fr salamon into partnership these two were the bailiffs whose duty it was to summon venire men john graham also had other lieutenants abroad working to find I 1 ire reputable pu table americans and fix them for the cronin jury r the rhe names of the fixed veni vent remen were given to hanks and be and salamon summoned them in addition to this hanks had his own list in which was included some of the most noted anti irish persons iu chicago this was done to show that hanks was against rather than for the prisoners here is what hanks says in his confes confession alow it was part of the policy to furnish a large number of U 0 D men on the jury and to sandwich in some of the fixed jurors this served a double purpose as graham told me it diverted suspicion and it aroused the bigoted bigoted prejudices of the irish in behalf hal f of the prisoners grahams Graham 18 principal rin cipal told him that the more IT 0 D E men that were summoned the more mo ey would hotheaded irishmen subscribe for the defense graham also told me that I 1 was not the only y person working for the defense there were three others they were furnished with lists of the fixed jurors I 1 had to make out mv own list hat that said hanks hanka with a sickly smile was meant as a compliment to me I 1 was there ever a more refined piece of diabolism than this what will the U 0 D mer who boasted of their desire to scalp an irishman think of this what will the rash irishmen who thought the sheriff was at the head of an anti irl irish sh conspiracy to bang the cronin suspects think of this it would be a good thing of U 0 D men and amen irishmen would join and hang bailiffs and suspects alike mark salamon the indicted bail aki amsl M ift iff owed his bis position in the sheriffs office to the fact that he was waa recommended as an indefatigable party worker this the sheriff himself admits and further the sheriff admits that a remonstrance against lamons Sa appointment was offered by the decent citizens of Sa salamone lamous ward but it appears that in the filling of poll political places decent citizens have bothi nothing ng to say A number of the ward lit heelers elers include including one justice of the peace backed balamon and sheriff matson batoon had to give in the sheriff was wa 8 given iven to f understand that he himself was indebted for his place to some of Sa lamons fine work as a primary manipulator and political colonizing agent so far Sal balamon arnou makes a 9 good showing as a closemouthed close mouthed irish deutcher and has told nothing jeremiah odonnell another of the indicted jury bribers is a native of I 1 reland ireland though barely a citizen he has been an active and expert political worker he was a lieutenant of in ward statesmanship ass As a reward for his earnestness fessand and zeal seal he was recently appointed to a place in the customs of this city no 0 less a person than ihan senator C B farwell was one of ODonnel Ps in dorsers coroner hertz the gentleman who conducted the famous coroners inquest over dr croninn Cr Cro onins ninIs death was another in dorser two state senators two state representatives and several prominent citizens also indorsed endorsed indor sed OI Dennell all these backers are staunch republican baity officials it shows that 02 odonnell Donnell though a greenhorn was a pro promising citizen and in time would dout doubtless lem blossom into a prosperous politician himself he had no difficulty in getting bond bondsmen he worked hard to elect both sheriff and state attorney thomas kavanaugh Kavanau gb another of the indicted jury bri bershas quite a record in chicago he is a machinist by trade and is of irish parentage at one time he was known as a furious labor agitator he succeeded in getting himself master ma ter workman of of a knights of labor assembly he then sold out to the politicians and was open to trade with either republicans or democrats it was while in this business that alexander sullivan secured him ind made an irish patriot of him his patriotism is akin to labor principles he was in the market for ireland as well as for powderly he was one of mayor rachels lieutenants and was the means of getting a number of clan na gael men on the police he Is now out on bail one of his bondsmen is named Armbru stera strange name for one of the children of the gael F W smith one of the indicted jury fixers is dewri described bed as a manufacturers facture rs agent aged 38 frank plausible and engaging but ab devoid of conscience as a utah car pet e thabar bagger he has figured as a side d partner in several shady trade insolvencies only one man among dozens who know smith gives him a good abood reputation unfortunately this mans name is goodrich who is a disbarred dis barred attorney having figur ed in several nasty di A disbarred dis barred chicago is a poor stick to lean against certificate of decency smith yankee from connecticut said to lave have squealed and t is to him the arrest of john gr the chief of the jury fixers is ig credited how smith came fa the clan na gael 3 family has baa ogi teen been explained nor has haack stated what sacrifices he willing to make for iteus these are a number of mixed up in thi aase tee in one w another wandw Win cre the law lav mo of alexander sullivan is g WM prominent figure win windes master in chancery senator pg well congressman mason joha roche and others are finding ag selves in clan na gael f young nied men clerks of sullivan windes have been before the he go jury but nothing came of jt it f are named mcardle slid and beaten be berg cu c enry henry stoltenberg to is the secretary ot of alexander 81 U he is said to be the tart wrote the dispatches abiel forwarded to martin Bur twi yere at winnipeg Winne peg he Is fe hian posed to have conducted vat correspondence turea dr cronin as td canada accompanied by IL a he was before the grand but proved the lighted tied dutchman the ij torney ever tackled the rho eral impression here wits w t one only had to corner a and he would pump himself as a colorado land hill bill bull buti I 1 ry irish are I 1 pable and I 1 ape g aw tenberg actually laughed at the be grand jury and said that the fiete attorneys name longnecker with aptness be changed to Q necker 11 julat oct |