The San Francisco call., 1898-05-22
NEW GRAND
 JURY SWORN
 FOR DUTY Nineteen Citizens Are
 Named. CHARGED BY THE COURT. THE SCHOOL BOARD SCANDALS REFERRED TO. On Thursday Active Investigations Will Be Commenced by the New Body on Old Municipal
 Sores.

J. B. STETSoN, 1901 Van Ness avenue.
 HIRAM H. HOBBS, 17OS Geary.
 A. c. BAUER, 1885 Market.
 HARRY c. GRAY, S33 Bush.
 c. w. TABER, 33eO Twenty-third.
 A. J. RICH, 112 Montgomery.
 GEORGE D. GRAHAM, 529 Com rnercial.
 J. D. MCKEE, Laurel and Wash ington.
 LUKE BATTLES, Ninth avenue, near Fulton street.
 GEORGE SCHAFER, A Shotwell.
 L. H. BoNESTELL, 4O1 Sansome.
 A. J. RAISCH, Safe Deposit Build ing.
 SAMUEL c. IRVING, 116 Bat tery.
 ROBERT COULTER, 1891 Clay.
 GEORGE A. KOEN, 800 Front.
 WILLIAM Fl. PRATT, 1917 Vallejo.
 WILLIAM KAISER, 2112 Post.
 P. N. LILIENTHAL, Anglo-Cali- fornia Bank.
 NH. HEIGHT, 21oo Washington. These citizens constitute the new Grand Jury:
 The jury was impaneled yesterday morning by Presiding Judge Belch- CT of the Superior Court. Twenty three citizens of the thirty whose names were drawn from the Grand Jury box last Saturday were present when court convened. and they were examined one by one. Four presented excuses and were discharged and the remaining nineteen ed M II. Hecht foreman, the court proceeded to deliver the charge, and from its tenor 1t is manifest that affirmative action IS anX- iously hoped for It was as follows:
 "Gentlemen of the Grand Jury; You are admonished to carefully remember and observe the oath you nave taken. Tn particular, it is your sworn duty, under the law, to keep your own counsel, ana that of your fellows and that of the Gov ernment. You must not disclose, except requested to do so ill some judicial pro ceedng, what you have done or nave either as a body or as individuals, in any matter presented to you. As have said, you will observe 1t implicitly You are d grand nquisition. The peoples inn portant affairs will be entrusted to your charge, and it will occur 10 you at once, as conscientious and sensible men, mar you cannot discharge your trust well IT vou take the world into your confidence When you have a report to make Gas when you have found an indictment, or dismissed a criminal charge) then you VIII come Into court dlld Lldhe IL, Oul up to that time the entire world are to be kept in ignorance of your charge; The serious import of the duties of the Grand Jury has not always been remembered, or, possibly. appreciated.
 II recall that after certain sessions of the late Grand Jury the daily papers con- tained what purported to be full accounts or their transactions. How the informa- ton was obtained l have no knowledge, but the exhibition was ScandaIouS and offensive, both to public morals and to law.
 'I call to your attention as demanding immediate action the frauds alleged to in the construction of the San Francisco Ferry Depot, and as well the frauds al- legged to have been committed against the people in the expenditure of the city and county public school fund devoted to building purposes. For some while past the public press have called attention to both of these matters. Both were sub mitted to the late Grand Jury by the District Attorney-the ferry depot matter early in the year and the other matter somewhat later, and both had been before that body flor a long time and had not been acted upon up to the time they were discharged. l expressly Tesubmit them to you. Both of said Taatters concern public officials-the Board pf State liar bor Commissioners in the one instance, and the School Directors of this city and county in the other-and concern as well the alleged malVersation of public moneys. If the public officials concerned are guilty they ought to be indicted at once; if they are innocent it Is due to them that the charges should be specifically dismissed. Of course, I do not mean to have 1t un- derstood that the two matters to which have expressly called your attention are the only matters of a criminal nature to