Omaha daily bee., 1895-03-03
GRAND JURY IS DISCHARGED
Its Report to the Court Without Any Special
Features
scoTTs STRUCTURES MlLDLYREFERReD TO
InabilGity to Get Sucient Evidence of Mu-
nicipal County Rottenncss to Base
and Indictment INSTRUMENTATION
Respecting imprisonment of Boys.

The buzz which succeeded the announce
ment in Judge Scott's court room at 4:3O
o'clock yesterday afternoon that the grand
jury desired to report instantly ceased as
the members of that body filed into the
room and took their places. Every one felt
that storm was impending and that it
would surely burst when the long expected
report of the jury was placed in the hands
of the judge who so mercllessiy scored the
body last Thursday. Judge Scott, II he an
tcipated an attack from the Jurors, did not
show it in the least, as he opened the
proceedings by saying:
'Gentleman, have you any business which
requires the attention of the court?"
1--WE have, your honor" returned the fore
man, and he handed up a bunch of indict-
ments and the jury's final report.
LIKED THE JAIL CLAUSE.
Judge Scott then read the report, and 1t
was expected he would be accused of block
ing the progress of Justice, which he had
been selected by the people TO administer.
This was the report that had been circu-
lated, and there were very few of those In
the court room who did not put some faith
in It. but 1t did not come. When he had
concluded his reading Judge Scott, turning
to the jury, said
'"There is one paragraph in your report,
that regarding jails, to which l desire to
call the attention of the district attorney.
After reading II he said what he has said
before about locking boys up with hardened
criminals, and continued:
II now and here propose to say to this
county attorney that the Board of County
Commissioners must make some provision
for these boys. or II they do not ! propose
to have some measure adopted that will com
pei 1t to do something to save the lives and
souls of these little boys"
The jury was then discharged Its report
Is as follows:
REPORT OF THE JURY.
To the Honorable. the Judges of the Dis
trict Court Of Douglas County, Nebraska:
We. the grand jury. in chamber assem-
our session has been prolonged owing tc
the fact that numerous cases have beer
brought before us where preliminary hear
tngs We're had in justice and police courts
since last term of court, where defendanti
We're bound over to the district court, which
under the law we were required to investi
We have had an abundance of evldenc,
of gambling having been practiced in th
county. With one exception we have failet
we are unable to find that gambling exists
In this city or South Omaha at the presen
Among the matters that We're the subjec
of our Investigation was the conduct of tn
Complaints e arising from their nesligene
and failure TO enforce the laws. and thel
ineficiency in the. discharge of the dutie
devolvng upon them, Many witnesse
timony taken. While much of this testi
mony was hearsay evidence and the verac
ity of witnesses In many instances was i'm
pugned and contradicted there was u pre-
ponderance OF credible testimony to sho'
beyond a doubt that corrupt practices an
downright backmailing have been tolerat
ed. During the years 1855, lssO and lss
by the gamblers of Omaha to police Off
GERS in consideration that certain gamblin
houses be allowed to operate without pc
showed that certain definite proportio
OF the profits of this business was reserve
and used with which to purchase polio
protection. When house was to