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All Found Guilty

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
August
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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THE END REACHED. Chicago, Aug. 6.- The trial of the Cook County boodlers closed last evening with a verdict of guilty against all of the defendants. At three o'clock in the afjternoon the jury retired to make up its verdict, returning at 8:50 o'clock with a verdict of guilty, flxing the punishment of Leyden, Ochs, Van Pelt, Wasserman, Varnell, Wren and McClaughry at two yars' imprisonmenteach, and imposing a fine of $1,000 each upon Casselman, Geils, McCarthy and Oliver. The defendants sentenced to imprisonment were at once removed f rom the court-room to the jail. The verdict gies universal satisfactlon excepting in the cases of McCarthy and McClaughrey. It was generally supposed that the latter would be let off lightly, while the former would be among those most heavily sentenced. The pu blic would have been better pleased had these two exchanged places. There are sixty-eight boodier indictmenta as j'et untried, and in all of them at least one of the men recently tried is defendant Most of them are, however, for conspiracy, and in these, if the State's Attorney elects to go on with their trial, the plea will be set up that the defendants can not twice be put in jeopardy for the same oflense. But there is a class of indictments. wherein the plea would be of no avail, Leyden, Wasserman, McCarthy, Ochs, Wren, Van Pelt, Hannigan, Mc61aughry and Lynn are all indicted jointly with Michael Costelloe in what are known aa the coal cases. Here the charge is not conspiracy, but bribery, and that being a distinct offense no plea of previoU3 conviction can be set up. There are also a nuraber of indicted people whose cases have not been either brought to trial or a nolle prosequie entered. These are Richard O.í Driscoll and James Connolly, employés at the hospital; E. A. Robinson, the grocer; Napoleon Barsaloux, the furniture-dealer; Edward Phillips, the court-house custodian; Williara Harley, the contractor; H'y L. Holland and L.P. Grane, paint case; Philip Kelly, the sewer contractor; Gustave A. Busse, the hardware dealer; C. A. Éendricks, J. Buckley and P. Mahoney, the court-house carpenter work job; M. Costelloe, the coal contractor; Jolm G. Lobstein, contraotor; V. H. Gray, the artesian-well job; Chris Keliing, James Murray and Michael Hennessey, the insane asylutn kitchen work; Thomas Middleton, a carpet-cleaner; Levi Windmuller, a groeer; G. M. Gunderson, contractor for janitor work; Frank Murphy, employé at the asylum; Charles C. Warren, electric-light deal; Rush K. Warner, roofer; A. J. Walker, F. R. Murphy and J. J. Hayes.

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