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Show CORRUPT NEW YORK JURORS. District Attorney Is Severe in His Indictment. Eugene A. Philbin of New York, has a poor opinion of jurors, grand and petty, in that city. In an address ad-dress at Columbia university on "The District Attorney's Office" he referred as follows to the corruptibility of jurors: "There are men on grand juries in New York whose first object is to protect the political party to which they belong. One jury recently refused to issue a presentment because be-cause the person affected was a good political worker in the district of one of the jurors. The grand jury not infrequently in-frequently stands between the criminal crimi-nal and the just penalty of his crime. The district attorney is confronted with the necessity of attacking police corruption which so clearly exists, but he finds it almost, impossible to secure a 'conviction for bribery owing to the character of the witnesses. I have seen cases where the moral evidence evi-dence was complete that certain jurors jur-ors were corrupted, and one has confessed con-fessed to me." |