The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-09
THE U. S. COURT IN SESSION.
Indictments Brought in by the Fed
GTal Grand Jury.

Judge Speer's Charge-He Has a Word
to Say About Lynchings and Other
Crimes-The Jury in Session Only
Three Hours-Some Papers Filed in
the Court Yesterday.
The United States district court held a
short session yesterday. more especially
for the purpose of charging the grand
jury, which was in session until 2 o'clock
District Attorney Gary says he is proud
of that work, which is about as quick as
there is on record.
The court met again in the afternoon at
4 o'clock to receive the indictments
brought in by the jury, and to order
them filed. True bills were found
against Jim Sherrod, Lem Sherrod and
w H. Pierce for keeping Illicit distil-
leries in Emanuel county; against Ed.
Lowry of Coffee county on the same
charge; against d. w. Martin, alias
William Duval, for burglarizing the post
Office at Cairo, Ga; against Lucius
Mosely for embezzling from the United
States mails. Kit Pierce, who was ar
rested on warrant for keeping an Illicit
distillery, was discharged The criminal
docket will be called this morning.
JUDGE sPEER's CHARGE.
In his charge to the grand jury ycster-
day morning Judge Speer called attention
to the Importance of their duties as jurors
and told them that the district attorney
would act as their legal adviser, and that
they might accept his Judgment with con-
hdence as to matters of law.
He called attention to the fact that the
sanctitY of the mails should be preserved
and the law strictly enforced with regard
to burglaries in pOstoftices The estab-
lishment of an Illicit distillery, he said,
tends more to the utter decentralization of
the people than anything else. They were
responsible, he said, for more crime than
any other violation of the United States
laws and no good citizen could ignore
such violations In speaking of lynchings
and other crimes, and the felicitOus state
of affairs in this district, Judge Specr said /:
ALL VIOLATIONS SHOULD BE PUNISHED.
You, doubtless, each of YOU, have a
stake in the community where you live.
You have property to be protected, but if
you have not property, you have peace
and happiness to preserve. You have
children to rear You have all of those
rights which men deem sacred, and none
of them are safe in a community where
the law IS ignored and where fragrant vi0-
!atlons, or any plain violation of the law,
Is permitted to go unpublished. / do not
know anything which tends more to
ueaden the moral sense of the young than
the spectacle before their minds that the
leading members of the community are
not Vlgllant and diligent in the enforce
ment Of the law. Suppose, for in
stance, a terrible lynching or hor-
rIpIe murder, or some other
outrage, is committed in the presence
OF the lmpressiOnable mind of a youth,
and 1t also comes to the knowledge of that
youth that the crime goes unwhipped of
justice. Why, it is indelibly burned into
the character of that boy to Chat extent
mat 1t permeates his whole nature aud
AFFECTS him as long as he lives, and as all
lhe intelligent youth of the community is
practically aware Of each offense of this
character OF notable sort, when those in
duJhorltY permit crimes to go unpublished
Such men are daily engaged in poisoning
Inc lnlnd OF The youth of the country.
THE JURY CoMPLMENTED.
''Now there is nothing in the anteced-
entS of grand juries in this court which
requires this earnest remark on my part,
because 1 have never seen in any court a
more steady, impartial and sensible en-
lofcement Of the law by the Jurors and
grand jurors, but it is because they have
zone So because your predecessors have
zone their duty-that the hOnorabl dis
tflct attorney may now state in your
presence that you, representing twenty
elght counties of the state of Georgia,
many OF them large and prosperous, will
geI through with your work, be dis
charged and permitted TO go to your homes
III day, or day and a half Now,
Is not that felicitous state of affairs2
Does II not speak well for the people of
the community? Why does it existl Be
Cduse gentlemen who occupied your same
position have done their duty faithfully
ana diligently, and in a manner in which
IEEohe It's performance at your hands
he court adjourned yesterday after
noon until 10 o'clock this morning.
SIMON BoRG's INTERVENTION.
The Intervention Of Simon Borg s. Co.
II the suit recently filed by Alexander
broWh X Sons against the Central rail
Iodd mas been signed by Judge Jackson,
making Borg & Co., the petitioners, a
party TO the suit and was filed in the United
states court here yesterday.
IL states that Borg 4 Go. are the owners
Vi @4o flrst mortgage bonds of the SaVan-
nan and Western railroad, valued at
gl'V9o each; also Of 300 first mortgage
pohqs OF the Chattanooga, Rome and Co
Iunhus railroad Of the same value; Of
SIV,OoO IN Central railroad certificates of
Indebtedness, and finally, Of BOZ shares of
central stock
-. Borg x Co. in their intervention adopt
me same allegations as are set forth in
me phi filed by Brown x Sons and ask
Tor the same relief, namely the discharge
Oh Mr.. Conner, the appointment of a new
receiver, and new foreclosure proceedings
lor the entire system.
Ihis intervention win be heard before
Judge jackson in Atlanta on May %, at
{Ihe same time the Brown bill Is given a
hearing.
a copy Of the order setting the hearing
OF Jhe Brown intervention in Atlanta for
May IS, was filed in the United States
court.
a. Dutenhofer, the owner Of nineteen
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