Show MEN TRY TO TOt t BUY SIXTY JURYMEN Officials Uncover One of Most Extensive Jury Jury fixing f xing S Schemes hemes rr In History of Nation i g r fo Pittsburg Pittsburg- Pa Feb 14 Pittsburg Pittsburg had another graft spasm today and while only two men are yet under arrest anest charged with attempting to fix a jury warran warrants s for ten other persons have been issued I According to District Attorney William A. A Blakely and Chief of the Allegheny county detectives George H. H Waggoner o one one one-of e of the most extensive schemes at jury fixing in the history of the country has been discovered It is charged that twelve men have been busy trying to buy up the entire panel of sixty jurymen who are to report tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow to to- morrow and from which there is to be chosen a jury to try Councilman John Klein of Pittsburg Pittsburg- and Bankers A. A A. A ViI ViI- sack and William Ramsey who are charged with grafting and andI I w who o have been booked for trial on Tuesday About last Jast midnight Charles Colbert I- I a n. retired glass gass worl worker er of or a suburb was placed under arrest arrest ar- ar rest and brought to Pittsburg charged with V tr trying to bribe one member of ot the jur jury panel At 1230 a. a m rn John Colbert brother of or the ono one arrested was taken also In charge In These brothers arc ale tho the only two that the tho county detectives have o been able to lay hands on as yet et but they assert tonight that they Uley will have the other ten before noon tomorrow and that there th r will be some Bome surprises The Te Colbert brothers were swea sweated ted for tor or t two o hours by the detectives and then committed to 10 Jail charged with bribery the fixed at and though the thc older Colbert is a a. property owner and stands high In hi his hip community ho he was pot not able to secure s curD I p I ball baIl enough to liberate himself and his brother I Three days ago aljO the count county authorities ties became satisfied that there was an nn organized effort being made to buy up the entire jur jury panel so that no matter matter mat mat- I ter what 12 men would be selected for the Klein Jury jur or the two bankers everything would have been fixed B. B F F. Carpenter a neighbor of ot the theelder theelder elder Colbert at Tarentum gave gove the Information to the county authorities on which the arrests were ordered It is alleged ed by Carpenter who Is one ono of the Jury panel that he was vas approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap b by Charles Colbert with th the su suggestion that It would be a g- g god Jod od thing It If there should be no conviction In any of ot t the tle e bribery briber cases and Colbert is Ig alleged ed to have said that he lie knew where thore there was good monc money for the the- themon mon men who wo would hl see lee that there wore were no rio convictions |