Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1902 — Pat O'Donnell Convicted. [ARTICLE]

Pat O'Donnell Convicted.

After one of the greatest trials in the history ofThicago, Patrick O’Donnell ano the six others indicted with him, were, found guilty Saturday afternoon, of the serious crime of jury bribing. The trial began June 2nd and therefore lasted. Sundays included, 26 days. Ten days were used in securing a jury. The punishment assessed by the jury against O’Donnell was a fine of $2,000 His brother John was also found guilty, but his fine was only SSOO. The evidence against the parties was very strong and left no room for reasonable doubt of their guilt. The trial and its results is a fearful blow for O'Donnell. It will undoubtedly result in his removal from the lucrative office of public administratqr, also the loss of the most of his law practice, and probably his actual disbar ment from the practice of: the law entirely. Verylikelyalso.it will mean his financial ruin; as the costs and expenses of the trial muethave b3eneDormou.s. It was stated some days ago by a Delphi paper that the O’Donnell homestep in Carroll county had just been mortgaged for $15,000 to help him out in the trial. O'Donnell was born in < arrull county He is 39 years old, aud a graduate of the law department of Georgetown, D. C University, in 1894. He is well know in Rensselaer and here, if we mistake not, he made his first appearance as a public orator, and as an orator, be is among the ablest the state of Indiana has produced in recent years. Since going to Chicago his progress has been wonderful, and both professionally and politically he was on the very pinnacle of success, and his fall now is correspondingly great.