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Show I0ARR0W 18 IN PGER Rumor That He Is to Be Indicted For Jury Bribing: Loa Angeles, Cal, Jan. 29. One or more indictments will bo returned today, to-day, based on allegations of jury bribing in the McNamara trial. Deputy Dep-uty District Attorney W. Joseph Ford made this statomont JuBt before the convening of the county grand jury which has been investigating the charge that tho McNamara defonse maintained a fund for the corruption of jurors and witnesses in the dynamiting dyna-miting trial. Attorneys Lecompte Davis,, ono of Claronco Darrow's assistants in the defense of the McNamara brothers, was called as a witness. Davis said he had not been subpoenaed, but merely requested to tell what he knew of the operations of Bert H. Franklin, tho detective arrested two days before the McNamaras made their sensational confessions of guilt lasi November and who is now awaiting trial on tho charge of having hav-ing bribed Juror Robert Bain, and attempting to bribe Venireman George N. Lockwood. Information that the finale of tho bribery investigation was imminent spread rapidly, and Clarence Darrow, formerly chief counsel for the McNa-maraB, McNa-maraB, who has been living at Venico, a seashore resort, came up to Los AngoloB and went directly to the office of-fice of Earl Rogers, whom he has retained re-tained to represent him, 'if need bo." All rumors of indictments have centered cen-tered about Darrow, who had supervision super-vision over the disbursement of tho $225,000 said to have been collected for the defonse of the confessed brothers. Rogers said Darrow would await the report of the grand Jury, whloh took a recess until 2 o'clock this afternoon, bofore making any statement. EXPECTS TO BE INDICTED. "I am expecting to be indicted," said Darrow today, "and I might as well be prepared for It I engaged Earl Rogers of this city to represent me, and Judge Cyrus F. McNutt, now of Los Angeles and formerly of tho superior bench of Indiana, porbably will assist him. Judge McNutt was associated with me in the McNamara defense. "All I'll say In regard to tho indictments in-dictments is this: I've repeatedly said that I knew nothing about any attempts to bribe or Influence a juror. jur-or. I repeat that steadily I confidently con-fidently hope an dexpect to be acquitted." ac-quitted." Darrow told of having arranged for bail and of his decision to remain In Los Angeles until tho case was finished. fin-ished. Of all those whose names have been connected In any way with the allegations that the McNamara de-fenso de-fenso systematically sought to corrupt cor-rupt jurors and witnesses, only Darrow Dar-row was omitted from the list bf witnesses wit-nesses called by the grand jury, ported several times that'fb'f "pSH Franklin was summoned. It was reported several times that, in various conferences he had with Ford, the prosecutor, he had been offered Immunity Im-munity if he would tell who were the "higher-ups" in the alleged campaign of bribery. Although summoned before be-fore the grand jury on two occasions, he was never actually examined and two weeks ago he pleaded not guilty to the two bribery charges filed against him. His trial has been set for February 27. According to tho allegations of the state, based on information said to have been given by Franklin, to tho men he is alleged to have bribed or tried to bribe, the MoNamara defenBo set asido a fund of $20,000 to be used in "fixing jurors." District 'Attorney Fredericks haa in his safe $4,600 that waB taken from Lockwood and Franklin at the time of their arrest. Lockwood was In tho confidence of the prosecutors at tho time, an dwas released immediately after Franklin was placed in Jail. Bain and Lockwood were prinoipal witnessoB called by tho grand jury. The accounts of Darrow and other attorneys at-torneys associated with him were closely scrutinized. |