People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — MORE OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED. [ARTICLE]

MORE OFFICIALS ARRAIGNED.

Michigan’s Secretary of State Hold in ®7,000 Hall—Date of the Trial. Lansing, Mich , Feb. 27.—John W. Jochim, secretary of state; Marcus Petersen. William May, clerk of Wayne county, and James G. Clark were arraigned at Mason Monday on indictments returned by the grand jury. All stood mute and the court directed the clerk to enter a plea of not guilty in each case. Jochim will have- to answer to indictments for making a false public record, willful neglect of duty and conspiracy. His aggregate bail is $7,000, and Mayor A. O. Bernent and G. W. Bement, of this city, are his sureties. Patrick Blake and Louis Saveigne, of Detroit, signed May’s bond of SI,OOO in each of tho cases, for conspiracy and destruction of the Wayne county records. Peterson and Clark, having been indicted'for conspiracy only, had to give only SI,OOO bail. Jacob Stahl and J. M. Skinner, of Lansing, signed Petersen’s bond. Adolph Buder and Frank Ilonpt, of Detroit, did a similar service for Clark. All of the indicted men have now been released on hail. Some of them will be tried during tho next term of court, which will convene in this city March 12.