The Savannah morning news., 1902-03-02
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UNITED STATES GRAND JURY DIS
CHARGED FOR THE TERM.
MANY INDICTMENTS FOUND.
JUDGE COMPLIAIENTED GRAND JU-
RORS ON THEIR CONDUCT.

w. FaircIOth, Justice of the Peace
of Decatur County, Indicted for
Making a False Jurat to a Pension
Claim-POstOfiice Burglars, De-
fauIting POstmasters and Illicit
DistiIIers Presented.
The grand jury of the District Court
Of the United States was discharged
for the term yesterday at noon, after
having returned a number of indict-
ments against various defendants,
charging violations of the laws of the
country.
The discharge of the grand jury was
to the accompaniment of mutual and
general Fluctuations. When all the in
dictments the grand jury had found
had been returned, Foreman S. B.
Goodwin announced that there was one
other matter he desired to bring to
the attention of the court. The paper
from which he read was as follows:
1--WE, the grand jury chosen and
sworn for the February term, 1902, of
the United States Court for the South
ern District of Georgia, beg leave to
submit the following:
I'VE hereby desire to express our
unqualified admiration for the able and
scholarly charge delivered to this body
in entering upon their duties as grand
jurors by his honor, Judge Emory
Speer.
I'VE further tender our thanks to
Judge Speer, Hon. Marion Erwin, dis
trict attorney, and his able assistants,
for courtesies extended this body.
rs. B. Goodwin, foreman.
&c. H. Remington, secretary"
Judge Speer returned his thanks from
the bench.
COmpIimented the Jurors.
II am grateful" said his honor. "for
the appreciation you have expressed of
my effort to aid, enlighten and assist
you in the discharge of your grave du-
ties. 1 wish to return thanks to you
also in behalf of the district attorney
and his assistants. l wish further
to thank you in behalf of the people
OF this district, for the manner in
which you have discharged the respon-
sible duties of your office.
L felt assured when I first looked
into your faces that no failure of jus
tce could. in the future, be imputed
properly to you, but that a guilty de-
PENDANT would have about as much
chance of escaping presentment for
punishment as would one of Charles L
absolute cavaliers at the hands of q
jury of CromwelPs Ironsides The man
ner in which you have discharged your
duty has altogether INDICATED my con-
hdence. Surely, as long as the adj
ministration of the law is assisted by
men such as compose the jury body in
these courts, there is no fear that Re-
publican institutions will vanish from
the EARTH
The FaircIoth Case.
In the matter of general interest
possibly the most important of the
indictments returned by the grand
jury was that against Thomas w.
Faircloth, a notary public and ex-of-
hc1o justice of the peace in Decatur
county, Who is charged with affixing,
his signature to certain false and
fraudulent a1lidavits, made or pur-
porting to have been made in support
of the claim for a pension presented
by Melvina Mason.
Faircloth is charged with affixing a
false jurat to alleged afFidavits of T.
M. Merritt, M. D., and Ella Chester.
whose signatures purport to have
when as a matter of fact the atlantis
were not present and no oath was or
could have been administered to
them.
Took Uncle Sans Funds.
Plymouth Frasier. formerly most
master at Limerick, was indicted for
the misrepresentation of government
funds, coming into his hands as post
MASTER amounting in the aggregate to
$l15.55. The offense is charged IN vari-
Gus aspects in three separate and dis
tinct counts. Frasier is an old negro
man, of much apparent simplicity and
responsibility, and when he was
charged with the offense for which he
has been indicted. at the time of the
preliminary investigation before the
commissioner here, his only answer
was, "Yessuh, boss; I guess OATS
right"
James Rivers was indicted for break
ing and entering the postoffice at Ha-
gan, with intent to steal and a similar
indictment was returned against Abner
Goodman, who is charged with break
ing and entering the postoffice at
Brooklet, in Bullock county. In a sec
ond count of the Indictment against
him Goodman is charged with stealing
$40 from the Brooklet postoffice.
Clarence ]. Hendry was indicted for
purloining a letter from the postoffice
at Bigwheel, of which he was at the
time acting postmaster, and convert
ing the valuable contents Thereof.
amounting to So to his own use.
For Making Mail Lock Keys.
Morris Dominitz, a Savannah lock-
smith and junkdealer, was indicted
for making a key suited to one of
the locks used on government mail
bags, for having one of these locks
in his possession, and for selling it
to Jacob NJ Powell Dominitz was
arrested for these offenses some
months since and is now on bond.
The grand jury charges Lemly
Sherrod with attempting to defrau6
the government by emitting to pay
the special tax required on distilled
spirits, by removing a considerable
quantity of such spirits from his
premises before the tax was paid and
by failing to keep in his books
proper and correct account of the
amount of spirits distilled
Indictments for illicit distilling were
returned against George and Charles
Davis, Joel Num-, Berry Williams and
Thomas Woods, all of Emanuel coun-
ty. A peculiar and somewhat unusual
feature of the indictments for this Of
Tense is that Emanuel county is the
habitat of every illicit distiller.
The grand jurors received their
mileage and per diem from the mar
shall Immediately after they were dis
charged. and many of them left the
city during the afternoon. Most of
the others returned to their homes