The Lake Charles echo., 1893-09-15

We are indebted to our courteous clerk Of court
Mr. H c. Gill, for the report of the grand jury
which we received barely in time for this week
issue. 1t is a good, business.hke and comPrehen-
Bivs document and follows the Judge charge to
them in every particular.
To the Honorable G. a. Fournet, Judge Of the
Twelfth Judicial District:
We, the grand jury, impanneled by YOur Honor
September 4th. le3, beg leave 10 submit tins, our
final TepVFt.
During our deliberations we have presented
twenty six true BIls, and fOrty-nine not true bills
During our deliberations We have eHdeayVreu TO
do justice TO Sil aud an case We have erred,
regret II and nope Your Honor Will consider it
error Of the head aud NOT Of the hesrt. We have
had great many cases before US upon atiidayits
from iusLlCbs OF the peace, which VT found 10 De
very trivial aud isel Jusliiad an calling A. to Tour
Honor attuntipni and while We are IA dUu6t as to
whether Your Honor would tSel lnOiubd Of iuSll.
ned iu instruGtinE the dihersnt Justices ui the
peace throughout the parish IN regard 10 suCh
cases, think that II would tue district
attorney great deal Of annoyance, tho grand july
3 great deal Ct unnecessarily Trouble and work, and
tine parish treasury large amount OF money. We
have examined the jail and regret 10 say found
IL III most deplOTaOle condition, but ~ Lar
could ssu or learn from the prisoners UuunDed
therein the fault is not attributable a. the sheriff
or the keepers Of the jail While We LhInk That
little more attention the part OF the JaiiOr TO
the ti0Ors, snd especially the upper floor under
line Uell or ir0R Gage wOald make it more uUu
Portable to the prisoners UUuhngd in the different
cells We feel satisfied that be would be unable ~
! Keep IL in proper CVnditlUn account Of The
! hJdraat Or pipes used IOr conveying water
| LhrUug hUut the prison being IN fVory bad and
! leaAy condition, thereby keeping the walls and
! tiVOr Of prison IN Various plaUcs ling with
. InLisLuEe We algO find bnat sUme OF the water
closets in OF the cells out Ut order there
by creating astSnUh AluOsL UnbsarRbie at tunes.
We hereby request that the proper authorities at
once visit and carefully inspect the condition Ul
the jail, aud take such steps ~ they deem nevSS-
Hary the Improvement Of Ike sanitary condition.
Mr.. w . buckingham, chairman VI the 20 mltlet
appointed 20 visit and Inspect the pUUI taTIu, re-
ported that hs found everything good condition.
The buiIdlngs were clean aud the SANITARY GUudI
i LlUn good. There are beu luuIaLeB Oh The iHrm
BlghJ OF Jhsm were helpless buI all agreed thai
they well taken care It and UOnteutBa We
recommend 70 the police jury that they provide
the keeper, ar. Perkins, with neOusBhtN haterlA
tVr fencing PURPOSES and also with small variety
Of fruit Lroes 10 plant On said larm
We have made Inquiries In regard tJ the OBJ
BtrucLiUn Of publig HOaEis and fnd that tine rUat
leading from the ice factory to the Old HortlmaI
ferry crossing, is in very bad cOnuitOn, caube'
by digging and hauling sand away frOnl said Tua'
by parties and tOT purposes unknown 10 the menI
bets OF this body and We recommend that th
proper authorities give this matter lheit immrdI
; ate attention. We also recommend that th
Southern Pacific RailrOad Company aud the Kan
sAs City, Watkins aud Gulf HALLWAY Company b.
required to place necessary Culverts lOI draimaE
purposes where the dummy line CROSSES main tEaUl
Jf southern Pacific Railroad
We have made inquiry to tho violation Of tn
2 Sunday law, and obtained sufficient testimony /
justify US in finding three true bills and whil
We toBl certain thEt the law has been violated a
. times by others, by allowing aOCeas % saloon
| through rear dOUTs, we have not been FURNISHES
with evidence sufficient 10 justify us in hudln
bills. We hereby recommend that the city Au
. thUrities (mRyOr and msmbeTB Of town Council
instruct the city police, OUnstAbles, on duty
e the city OF Lake Charles TO pay particular ateD
! tiUn 20 all violations Of the Sunday law IN TIA
! iubuTe and report same to the district attorney
aud that the neglect or failure By q policeman o.
duty to report such case shall be sufficient ground
for his removal from Office. We also consider til
cross ties and rails laid Front siIest beginnin
a at the loot OF North Court street aud rum ng u
= Front street to Broad street, a nuisance, and v
recommend that the Street Railway Company uti
ize the in accordance with the terms Of thO
charter, or remove said obstruction from sal
- street.
A Thanking Your Honor the District Attorney
the sheriff and Deputies for kindly assistauU
rendered during our deliberations, BeBubnlit thi
e our final report, and respectfully ask to be d
charged s. P. WE1HERlLl.,
IS Foreman of the Grand j ury.