The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1894-09-06
They Deny the Charges
That Have Been Made
AS TO THE NAMES THEY DROPPED.
They 10 Over the List and Explain
Their Action. A Resolution En-.
dOrsing Judge GOber's Work.
From the Atlanta Journal. I
MARIETTA, Ga, Aug. 3lst, 1894

s MARIETTA, Ca, Aug. 3lst, 1894.
EDITORS ATLANTA JOURNAL AS to the
article which you published this week re-
lative to the revision Of the jury list of
Cobb county, we wish to say that the jury
commissioners, excepting one, knew moth
ing of the so>called sensation until after it
appeared in your paper
The fact as to whether Judge Gober was
or was not endorsed by the last Grand
Jury was not mentioned or in any way
er he was refused a recommendation. If
so, we do not know what Jurors of that
body opposed bin The list of that jury
was not before us and we did not take any
action relatlve.to said jury or any part of
it. Judge Gober was not in the county
during any portion OF the time we we're in
session, and none of US either directly or
indirectly had had any communication
from him relative to our work We do not
know positively how any of the men v no
were dropped stand as to Judge Gober, but
we arc sure some OF them are his friends.
In q fall jury of % as that was we are un,
able 10 understand how eight men would
contsD
There is nothing significant about the
fact that jurors from the last jury we're
dropped by the Commissioners The
chankes made in this jury were not larger
thaufhese made in other juries. This is
evident to anyone who desires to know the
truth and will take the trouble to invests
gate the matter.
We have, since the publication of that
article, looked over the records in the office
OF the Clerk of the Superior Court of this
county and find that out of the Grand Jury
drawn for the first week of the November
| term, 1892 twelve names were left out 10
this revision, and from the jury drawn ior
! the second week of the same term ten
names are left out of the present box.
| From the list of names drawn for the
Grand Jury for the first week of the March
term, 1893, twelve names are lett out nov
I and fIoin the list for the second week Of
the same term nine names are missing
From the first drawn for the Grand JURY
for the FIRST week of the November term
1893, six names are dropped and from the
| list for the second week of the same tern
seven names do hot appear in the presen,
list
We cite, as matter of history in this
connection, that we find from the records
that this last mentioned jury in their gen>
eral presentments made the following com.
plimentary reference to His Honor Geo. F.
Gober:
1--WE deem our state peculiarly rich in
numbering in her judiciary such man al
the Hon. Geo F. Gober, Judge of the Blue
Ridge Circuit, and it is with a pardonable
pride that we present his name to the peo-
| pie of our state as man and as a iurist
eminently fitted to occupy the highest
judicial position in our power to give him.
We thank him fer his able charge and for
his courteous treatment of this body"
From the Grand Jury drawn for the first
week of the March term, 1894, twelve
uames are left out of the present box
The jury for the second week of this
term served at the adjourned term in July
and the names we're given in your paper
and from which eight names we're dropped
So much for the present revision. 1t
has been the custom, as the records show,
of the Jury Com missioners of this county
to drop names and replace them with
others at every revision and we mention
the record OF the previous commission in
| 1892 The revision was far more radical
than that of the present.
! From the Grand Jury drawn for the first
week, November term, 1891, fourteen
names were, dropped in the revision in
1892, and from the jury for the second
week same term twenty names were left
| out.
| From the list drawn for the first week,
March term, 1892, fifteen names were
| dropped and like number from the list
tor the second week of the same term.
The records further disclose the fact that
names have not either now or heretofore
| been dropped for political reasons.
10 correct any false impression that may
have been made on the minds of the public
we submit the above facts.
5 CROWLEY,
J. g. CANTRELL,
/. N. NOOK,
JoHx D. GANNT,
o. AwTREY,
T. NJ BRUMBY,
Jury Commissioners of Cobb County.