Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1901 — SALISBURY FOUND GUILTY [ARTICLE]

SALISBURY FOUND GUILTY

Jury Returns Verdict tn Sensational Grand Rapids Case. Grand Rapids. Mich., Dec. s.—The Jury in the bribery case against City Attorney Lant K. Salsbury has returned a verdict of guilty, after deliberating all night. Salsbury was Indicted by the grand Jury last summer on the charge of accepting a brilH* of $75,000 for his assistance In pushing through a dqitl by which the city of Grand Rapids was to award to eastern capitalists a S4.(KMt,OOO contract for furnishing the city with water from Lake Michigan. Indicted with Salsbury wen* Henry A. Taylor, a young New York millionaire; Attorney Thomas McGarry and Stllson V. McLeod. Judge Newnham of the superior court has denied the motion to quash the contempt proceedings against State Senator George E. Nichols, charged with attempting to bribe the people's chief witness while acting as attorney for Lant K. Salsbury. He ordered the contempt proceedings stayed and directed the prosecuting attorney to proceed against Mr. Nichols on the charge of subornation of per Jury-