The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-24
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/ Mr. McKethan Makes a Statement
About the Lottery Ticket Matter.
/ The Grand jury Of the city court when
/ it met yesterday 10 make up It's general
/ preseutmeLts, took up the louisiana lot
! terry ticket question again and had several
/ other witnesses on hand 70 give their tes-
/ timouy
/ The tendency Of the testimony, how
! ever. must have been very unsatisfactory,
/ as the jury failed to find any indictment
/ against the party against whom the
/ charge was made. The special present
meuJ was returned when the grand jury
| adjourned, marked mot found"
! Mr.. Mcclellan, whose name has APP
! pearad prominently in connection with
the matter and who was summoned before
/ the grand jury TO give his testimony,
makes the following statement;
Savannah Aug editor Morning News
As my name has appeared prominently in
connection with a recent effort Of the solicitor
general to illustrate the efficiency OF his ONCE
think it due myself that the whole truth be
stated; the prominence was neither sought
nor desired by me, and fail to see now any
reason for It.
l was defending a negro charged with keep
ing policy shop; my defense was that my
GtlcuL kept no 5lDps Ludk LlAtLt were no z ALI4
bling implements about the place Of business
that he merely sold for several days luntl the
books were taken from him by his employer
few lottery tickets for the paltry sum Of
live. ten, and fifteen cents, and, in the heat Of
argument, 1 said, in effect, that il was hard
that poor friendless negro, an employee, and
unable to give bond or pay tine, should be
brought up before the court and punished for
selling for another two or three tickets, the
proceeds Of which would not have kept his
family for a day, while others were appar-
entity allowed 10 sell tickets in the Louisiana
State Lottery, an institution incomparably
more powerful and a thousand times more
Danelul.
At this point was interrupted by the an
nOuncement from the solicitor general that
he would summon me before the grand jury
on the following Tuesday. / thereupon in
formed the solicitor general that 1 knew no
more about the matter than he did that il
was not my business to know it, but that it
was currently reported and commonly known
that lottery tickets were sold in the city. 1
naturally supposed that this statement would
end the matter.
The solicitor knew when he subpPnaed
me that l could give no testimony, and my
appearance before the grand jury would be
useless. Ii OutIItNNc 10 lut summons / ulu
60 and stated the whole matter just as it had
occurred. II the solicitor has illustrated the
efficiency OF his Office at my expense, L
suppose 1 must be content but L fail to see
the force OF the Illustration, or the proariety
of his treatment OF member OF the bar.
EDWIN A. MCKETHAN.
Solicitor General Fraser said yesterday,
in regard to the matter, that when Mr.
Mcclellan made the statement, he did it
in open court; he had no other course but
to require him TO appear before the grand
jury and give his testimony with regard
TO what he knew about the sale Of lottery
tickets in the city He said he knew
nothing about the matter before, that
amounted to anything, and that was the
first time it mad ever been
brought TO his attention, offic
tally or otherwise. He therefore
acted as he was compelled to do under
the circumstances