Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — SEEK PERJURY EVIDENCE [ARTICLE]

SEEK PERJURY EVIDENCE

John H. Marble Collecting Same for Lorimer Probers. Sew! Ordeal for Witnesses to be Called Before Committee Is Probable. Chicago, July 7. Merciless crossexamination, fortified by a substantial menace of perjury prosecutions before a District of Columbia court, is to be the fate of witnesses in the Lorimer scandal who will be summoned before the senate committee in Washington at the resumption of hearings next Thursday. John H. Marble has been conducting a series of inquiries which are meant to prepare him to conduct the cross>-examination of White, Beckemeyer, Holstlaw. Browne, Broderick* Wilson and the rest. The ordeal which is being prepared for all these witnesses, it was learned, will be far more trying than anything they have had to face before.

Mr. Marble is a skilled investigator and has been absorbing all the information he could get concerning political conditions during the Springfield deadlock. He will conduct the examination of the witnesses, and it is reported the district attorney in Washington will be asked to have a representative present at the hearings it* order to take prompt action in case perjury indictments are needed on quick notice. Study of the record of the former investigation is known to have convinced two members of the Investigating committee that sufficient cause for perjury prosecutions will exist if witnesses repeat in Washington thestories they told them In Chicago. Senator John W. Kern of Indiana, & member of the investigating committee, may visit Chicago before the resumption of the hearings in order to make inquiries which will aid him 1& directing the examination of witnesses.