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 THE GILHOOLEY CASE the money I put down the list of the eight men to be slugged in a book, and later Casey and I saw the committee downstairs, and I told them to come around in the morning and I would give them the list of the names of the men to be taken care of, that I couldn't give it to them that night, as a lodge meeting was being held in the head quarters hall at the time, and I couldn't get my books to secure the addresses, and they said they were broke and Casey told me to give them $2 for carfare, which I did. The next day we met Gilhooley and Looney and I gave them the names and addresses of the men. A day or two after the slugging of Carlstrom, Casey and I met Gilhooley, Looney, and Feeley in a saloon on South Clark Street, and Gilhooley said that they got that fellow at Thirty-second Street and Princeton Avenue all right, that he put up a fight and kicked him (Gilhooley) in the shins. Looney said he was a tough bastard and showed fight. Casey told me to give Gilhooley $8 in addition to the $2 already giren him, and Gilhooley said they always received $15 for a job like that as they had to split it three ways. In all we paid $47 to these men." After Newman had made this statement to the inspector and Mr. Meckel, Casey was called in and at first denied any part in the transaction, but Newman interrupting him said that he had told the whole truth. There upon Casey said that "seeing Brother New man has told all about it, I will too," and he there related in substance the same story that Newman had previously told, though at greater length and more in de tail. George Miller was then called in to the inspector's office and interrogated alone, Newman and Casey both having previously stated that he (Miller) was an innocent party to the affair, but that he had carried an envelope from Newman to Gilhooley containing $15. Miller first denied having carried the envelope from Newman to Gilliooley, but afterwards stated that he had and had given it to him in a saloon at Twenty

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and State Streets called the "Coney Island Saloon." Early on the day following the arrest of Newman, Miller, and Casey, John Heiden and Frank Novak were arrested and both made statements to the inspector and to lawyer Heile, which in Novak's case was not all at incriminatory and Heiden 's but partially so. Some weeks later Charles Deutsch and George Meller were arrested and each man on different occasions told his story which to a degree accorded at least somewhat with the statements of Newman and Casey. Shields was later located in Colorado where he had gone to avoid arrest, but refused to make a statement. Mullen is still a fugitive from justice. The doctors conducting the autopsy upon Carlstrom having reported that the assault upon Carlstrom was too remote to permit of the state bringing a charge of murder against these men, therefore an in dictment charging them with conspiracy to assault was returned by the May Grand Jury, 1905. On September n, 1905, the case was called for trial before His Honor Judge Arthur H. Chetlain. Attorney Wil liam S. Elliott represented Charles Gil hooley, Marcus Looney, and Edward Feeley, the latter said to have been the "trailer" used to locate the men to be slugged. At torney Frank Bowen represented George Meller, president of the union; Attorney Samuel H. Trude represented Henry New man; Attorneys Haynie R. Pearson and William Jackson represented Frank Novak, and Attorneys Seymour Steadman, Charles Soelke, George Remus, and Frank Winston represented the balance of the defendants. The state was represented by Assistant State Attorney Frederick L. Fake, Jr. Motions to quash the indictments and for a bill of particulars were overruled and the selection of the jury was begun. One thousand nine hundred and thirty jurymen were examined, weeks and weeks being exhausted in the selection of the twelve good men and true, a great number of the prospective jurors stating that they