Evening journal., 1901-05-15
Acted Under Orders Of Chief
Justice Lore
WILLITS JURORS CONCEALED
-Mealrv Charges Are Reiutcd
in All Particulars by The
County Officials

Shortly before rress time yesterday
aWernoon Horace Greeley Knowles. at
tofney Tor the Levy Court, cailed up
the Avening Journal office by tele-
J --no and stated that he had a state-
met made by Levy Court Commits
silno. Mcalcy relative TO the trouble
growing cut OF the drawing of the
grand and petit jurors fcr the May
term Of court Shortly afterwards his
stenogsapher brought the statement to
This Office. II was published, and az
forwards learned that il was The re-
suit Of conference participated in ly
Messrs. Knowles, Mealey Armstrong
and Lynn, Of the Levy Court.
Clerk OF .he Peace Quigley, ut whom
the statement was aimed was incensed
greatly by ils publication. ana in his
defense Lhe following statement vas
given this morning by Prothonotary
| Spcakman:
Prior TO the drawing OF the iuries
by the clerk of The peace and myself
Mr.. Knowles called on me and asked
me to notify him when we were going
TO draw the juries / requested him to
see Mr. Quigley and told him any
time the clerk Of the peace should fix
would suit me. This he refused 10 do
lie said he did not care to have any
thing 10 do with Mr.. Quigley. / gave
him TO understand that / would give
him notice. After that. on the same
day, Mr. Quigley and ] were advised bv
Chief Justice Lore that we ought not
% set the precedent OF going around
and notifying anyone when we were
| going 20 draw iurics-that ANYBODY
had the right to be present If he wanted
70. We acted on the advice of Chief
Justice Lcre, and drew the juries pub
lic!y in the prOthcnOtary's office With
cut any attempt to cOncealment 1t
was done in the presence Of Samuel S.
Adams, Jr, and Charles Warner Smith.
Who were present during the entire
time Of the drawing of the grand Jury.
and Mr.. Baynard, who is O law student
In Mr., Conrad's Office. who was there
part of the time. / drew the juries.
both petit and grand, out Of the boxes.
Mr. Quigley not drawing any nanles.
bCt simply writing the lists. During
the time we We're drawing the grand
jury / received a telephone message
from MIR. Knowles inquirlng when we
had decided to draw the juries. | told
him we were drawing the grand Jury
at that time. Shortly afterwards Mr.
Knowles, followed by Messrs. Lynn
and MegginsOn, came into the pro-
.honotary's Office. We proceeded to
complete the drawing of the petit jury
while they were there. They said
nothing; made no protest, and aIr
Knowles sat reading newspaper AZ
ter the iurios had been drawn and the
list made up Mr.. Knowles, Mr. Lynn
and Mr. Megginson left the office Very
"a sfsfle / Oh f.Ir
message from Mr.. Knowles requesting
me to come to his Office, which l de-
clined to do, telling him that if he
wanted TO see me he could come TO
my office and I would watt for him. Ho
came. He said IL was very strange that
/ should promise TO notify him and not
do so.
81 then told him that after he had
made that request TO be present I had
seen the chief justice and had been ad-
vised by him as above. AS to the state
mcnt that the ballots containing the
names of the jurors were taken out of the
boxes and picked over previous TO the
iuries being drawn, an act unprecedented
In this State have to say that the clerk
Of the peace and myself were directed by
the chief justice to take the ballots out OF
The boxes so that the names could be
compared with the list of jurors prepared
by the Levy Cour, 10 see If they corre-
spondod and agreed This was done, and
IN the hundreds OF 81. Georges Apo
quinimink and Blackblrd we found that
the ballots containing the names Of the
jurors which / believed had been selected
by Commissioner Willis were concealed
in envelopes in the bottom OF the boxes
and that the remaining ballots We're on
top Of said envelopes This was done In
the presence of Mr.. Knowles. Mr.. Lynn
and Mr.. Megglnson, and Immediately at
i'm their presence the ballots
were put back in their proper boxes and
shaken up thoroughly and the names
drawn out by me at random without look
ing into the boxes.
The apportionment Of jurors both
srand, and petit in an the hundreds was
made I'm the proportion IA which the
names were placed in the respective
boxes, as Is required by law The appor-
ionment I'm reference TO the erand Jury
was made in the home OF Chief Justice
Lore and approved by him. The Whining
ton hundred boxes were shaken up and
lown exactly Ike the rest Neither
VI. Quigley nor myself knew whether Mr.
Aeaiey or Mr. Chandler put the names in
hat we drew. The same proceeding pre-
'ailed In all the hundreds As to who put
n any particular name we had no knowl-
'dsc. and d.d not seek Tor any
Yesterday shortly after noon. before