Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — BRINGS NO INDICTMENT [ARTICLE]

BRINGS NO INDICTMENT

Grand Jury Investigating Brandt Case Discharged. Not Enough Evidence to Show Con spiracy Against M. L. ’ Schiff’s Valet. New York, March 29. The grand jury which spent nearly two months investigating whether Folke E. Brandt, Mortimer L. Sehiffs former valet, was lauded in prison as the result of a con spiracy, took its discharge from General Sessions Judge Crain without re turning indictments. . ■

The grand jury wanted to report that BfSndt was guilty of grand lar ceny, but not of burglary in the first degree, the crime for which he was sentenced to thirty years in Clinton prison. Judge Crain told the jurors that such a presentment was n<jt within the scope of their inquiry and sent them back to think it over.

When they reappeared they submitted a report omitting the paragraph objected to by the judge and which said merely that the evidence did not require the finding of indictments.