St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-02
MINNEAPOLIS.
CONSIDERING CRIME.
Plenty of Witness to Be Heard Be.
fore the Grand Jury.

When the grand jury met yesterday
morning there was no quorum, thanks
to Gene Hoy's abortion in the shape Of
a grand jury law, and adjournment was
taken until p. m. AS finally made up,
at 8 o'clock thu grand jury consists of
Capt d. NJ. Gilmore. foreman; John
Cunningham, H.W. Armstrong, George
FL. Andrews, John r. Jackson, A. b.
Benson, Miles Dickey, L. j. Cushman,
G. A. Gray, Jesse G. Jones. ID. G. Handy,
F. q. HolbroOk and A. E. McMullen.
The April grand jury is composed of
brainy-looking men, and if, after Judge
Smiths charge, they do not do some
pretty good work, it will be indeed
strange.
In charging the jury Judge Smith re-
minded that body that within the limits
of the territory over which it has juriS-
diction is quite large city. and in that
city is a large class of people who have
no regard for the laws. 1t is the duty
Of the grand jury to keep a watchful
eye over those people and to protect
society from their misdeedS by provid-
ing for them proper punishment. He
particularized as belonging to this class
the keepers of houses of ill-fame, keep
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any sort of gambling or betting is car
license. or those liquor sellers who sell
to minors or drunkards. The judge
called special attention to class of
real estate agents who swindle poor and
ignorant people by selling them worth
less property or property situated far
out from the city which has been rep
resented to lie within or near the cily.
Judge Smith said that while the city
has power to frame ordinances to pro-
tect itself against criminals and to pro-
vide for their punishment, and that
while these criminals may already have
been punished by the city authorities,
that is no bar to the grand jury taking
cogniZance of their misdeeds. One pun
ishment has been for the protection of
the city; the other is for the protection
and preservation of the dignity of the
state. He also took pains to impress
upon the grand jurymen that it is their
duty to examine into all criminal mat
tiers, whenever the city authorities have
been lax. There may be nothing sig
nificant in these words of Judge Smith,
but it really looks as if the city authOri-
ties have failed IN their duty some
where and that the grand jury is about
to create little str. The reference to
real estate agents is also worthy of no.
tice. There will, in all likelihood, be
some amusement for the public in the
present session of the grand jury.
AS soon as the charge was finished
the jury began business operations. In
all the rooms between the street and
the grand jury room were scattered
groups of witnesses summoned to ap-
pear before that body, consisting of
men and women of all classes and con-
ditions-white, black and mixed. civil
ians, police officers, detectives and Lii
cense Inspector Ray. Before the jury
adjourned for the night indi ctments for
larceny were found against James Hos
kins. James Williams and two others
named Thomas and Downing. 1t was
also rumored that Walter j. Ballard
and Amos Bostwick were under consid-
GRAFTON by the grand jury, but nothing
tangible could be learned concerning it.
Ballard and BoStwick are already under
indictment.