Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-23

PROSPECTS OF AN OVERLOOKING JAIL.
The Senate deadlock causes one at the City
Hall, In consequence OF the absence of a mar
shall, ana the court officers lawyers and others
are beginning to feel quite gloomy, for there is
time some relief Is given by the appointment of
9 marsnal or some plan agreed upon by which
Inat once can De hlled there will not only be
Gun times about the court house but the bust
ness interests OF the entire District will be more
or less anected- At present it is quite an easy
matter TO get In jail ny commitment from the
Police Court, but &c is extremely difficult to get
out, and those p rSOns In jail who desire to give
bail instead or being brought up In the mar
shals van are, through the courtesy of the
warden, Gen. j. s. Croker, taken to court In
his private carriage. There are quite uumter
CT persons In jail from the Police Court who
gave notice OF appeal, expecting at the time
that they woHld have speedy trial, but ind
Ing now that the prospects are waning they are
making efforts TO obtain pardona AS has been
heretofore stated, In some cases OF emergency
wits nave been directed by the Circuit Court to
De served, but there Is some question as to
whether any other court than the Equity Court
can order writ to be served.
THE MINT TERN OF THE CIRCUIT COURT
win convene on the 9th of May ga Monday.
and under the law the jurors must be drawn
az least ten days before the commencement OF
the term, and therefore this drawing must be
By the 3sth instant. This drawing Is required
TO De made by the clerk, and doubtless mar
shall or no marshal. at the appointed time they
VIII De drawn. The same law provides that
those drawn must be summonedi In person, or
by writ. at least five days before the meeting OF
the court. so Ii Ii there are to be jury trials
at the June term, there must be marshal to
summon them by May 4th. It has been sug-
gested that there need be no difficulty as TO the
circuit Court Jurors II those drawn were to
take the newspaper publication as their notice
and appear. Judging from past expe. 1 ,nce, the
Test men draWn-the business men-are usually
not anxious to serve their country on juries
and IL Is probable that most of those
VINO would attend on such notice would be
those who are DESTROYS OF serving. In this case
there would be vacancies which under Ordi.
nary circumstances might be filled by ta.esm
but II there Is no marshal these cannot be sum.
moned, and there Is imminent danger that
there VIII be no Circuit Court held possibly
until october. Thus II will be seen that owing
TO the dead lock the civil docket may In few
snort months become as unwieldy as it was a
few years ago when In order to reduce the num-
Der OF cases there were two Circuit Courts run
at one time.
TIE GRAND JURY
OF the Criminal Court continues its sessions,
upon the theory that parties having complaints
10 make Will not wait for the fOrmality OF a
summons. The petit jurors Of this C surt have
teen called together weekly since the expira-
Con OF Marshal Douglass commission, but can
90 nothing. The next term of this court con.
veneS on June 2Oth and II there is no marshal
0y the 18th OF that month 1t IS safe to say that
there Wal be no criminal trials till the Dacem-
Der term; and consequently the jail Will De
crowded.
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