A new scandal has arisen in Chicago in connection with
the Cronin trial. The Clan-na-Gael being able to endure expense, its counsel have so used the privilege of challenging, that it has hitherto been found impossible to empanel a jury. Only eight jurymen have as yet been accepted both by the State and the defendants; but as all delays must end at last, even in America, a more daring plan of resistance has been adopted. No less than six of the jurymen summoned but not yet empanelled have been arrested, charged with accepting bribes to violate their oath as jurymen. Two bailiffs of the Court are charged with offering the bribes, and on arrest have confessed ; and the supply of the money has, it is telegraphed, been traced to members of the Clan-na-Gael, now also in confinement. For all that is known, half the jurymen accepted may also be bribed, and the result of the trial a foregone conclusion. The citizens of Chicago apparently wish for justice, but they are powerless to obtain it; and unless they rise in insurrec- tion, will remain powerless. It is easy to understand, as one reads such narratives, why decent law-abiding Americans have a sneaking kindness for Lynch-law, as on the whole less likely to be corrupted than the law of the land. The amazing thing is that, with their impatience of such conduct, an impatience fully displayed in the last insurrection but one, the American citizens of Illinois do not make bribing a juryman or a Judge a capital offence, It is at least as worthy of that. punishment as treason.
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