Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-22
IT WILL NOT DOWN.
The Grand Jury Specter Rises
Up to Haunt Folks,
SEEN INANEW QUARTER,
And Though officially Analysed,
Promises a Resurrection.
THE IGNORING OF A PRESENTMENT
Where Goods Had Been AbStracted and
Wnun Cornd Vnl1 Uiddnn
rs SEEN INANEW QUARTER,
THE IGNORING OF A PRESENTMENT
Where Goods Had Been AbStracted and
We're Found Well Hidden.
SHERIFF NCANDLESS TALKS OF 1T

1t came like the tinkle of fairy bell,
very delicate and more suggestive than e1-
plosive-astory that there might be,and prob
ably was, more improper influence exerted
on the late grand jury than that testified to
by Robert Burns.
To get down to the marrow OF the con-
troversy, it is whispered that while the
goods of w. H. Watson, late Sixth street
clothier, were under the jurisdiction of the
Sheriff. some of the stock was stolen. and
that an information was made before Alder
man McMasters and a search warrant issued
that disclosed the removed portion hidden
in various parts of the building; further,
that ten witnesses, or thereabouts, had ap-
peared before the grand jury and deposed
that such was the case and, notwithstand-
ing all, the jury returned an ignoramus.
1t was suggested, but not charged, that
some person or persons in, or about or not
yerv far from, the Sherif's office, might
have been willing that such action should
be taken.
NOT TO BE DROPPED.
1t is also stated that another information
will be made, and the caliber of another
grand jury measured.
None of the people talked to on this side
of the question would submit to 60 on
record; but, none the less, they spoke as
though positive there was a screw loose
somewhere.
Freighted with the information reporter
called on Sheriff McCandless and asked him
what be had to say, and found him willing
to talk; and he reeled off his side of the case
with animation. He stated that the goods
of W. H. Watson had been taken in charge
as stated, but said that the plaintiffs who
were interested in making him account were
themselves responsible for any loss that
might have been sustained.
The Sheriff said that after the store was
closed S. A. Johnston, Esq, counsel for an
Eastern creditor, and the creditor himself
suggested that there was no use of the Sheriff
placing a watchman on the premises, they
wishing to curtail expenses. Their request
was complied with; but subsequently
DISSATISFACTION AROSE,
and request was made by the parties in
interest, or one of them at least, for per
mission to put on guard detective from
private agency, it being stated that goods
were being surreptitiously removed.
Shortly afterward a search warrant was
issued from Alderman McMasters' Office
and goods were found hidden in all sorts of
odd corners about the building. as though
an army OF colossal magpies had been en-
gagged.
As to the insinuation that anybody about
the Sherif's Office had been interested in
any way in the action of the Grand jury,
Sheriff McCandless replied that if they had,
he hadn't the least knowledge of it, and he
said it very emphatically.
One of the aggrieved parties stated that
some members of the grand jury talked as
though they knew more of the case than
was likely to come to them in a casual man
ner, and 1t is almost moral certainty that
the matter will be heard of in the future.
The leaven is working; and it is probable
that hereafter, if jurors are not altogether
what Casar's wife should have been, they
will come nearer the standard than some in
the past are largely believed to have been.