Moran contacted George and proposed that he hide out until after they collect their fee from Silas. George called the Cook County Illinois Sheriff's Police, who had Grod set up a meeting with Silas. A sheriff's detective, posing as a third hitman, accompanied Grod to the meeting where Silas gave Grod $1,000 as a down payment. There was now sufficient evidence to charge Silas Jayne with conspiracy to commit murder. Grod was the chief witness against Jayne when the case came to trial in March 1966. As Grod was walking into the courthouse, Silas Jayne's brother Frank handed him an article about a key witness in a criminal case being murdered. When called to testify, Grod had a sudden case of amnesia, stating under oath, "I can`t even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I'm sick." As a result the case against Jayne was dropped and Grod was fined $1,000 and jailed for thirty days. In November of 1965 Silas Jayne sold the 'Idle Hour Stables' and moved to 'Our Day Farm'. After the conspiracy charges against Silas Jayne were dropped, George Jayne's office was burglarised. Silas told one of George's employees "I gave the IRS all the dope on him [George]. We got enough out of his office to put him in jail for good." George was subsequently indicted for income tax fraud. A jury found him not guilty on November 2, 1966. In 1967, Silas and George Jayne's six sisters called a family meeting to resolve their differences. According to George's wife, speaking through her attorney, George agreed at that meeting not to show horses in the hunter and jumper classes. She did not say what, if anything, Silas agreed to. Silas said that the meeting ended with the brothers being friends. Killing of Frank Michelle Jr. Fearing more attacks, George Jayne hired Frank Michelle Sr., a former chief of police of Inverness, to provide security for his home and business. He hired Michelle's son, Frank Michelle Jr., to surreptitiously place on Silas Jayne's car a transmitter which would alert George whenever the car came within five miles. The transmitter was periodically monitored and when it stopped transmitting after twelve days, Frank Michelle Jr. was dispatched to change the battery. On January 19, 1969, Michelle's wife dropped him off near Silas Jayne's home at Our Day Farm. Michelle would not have found the car with the