The Tucson citizen., 1902-04-09
Made In His Notorious nffi-
ddVIt Found to Be
BdS6l6SS.
The Grand Juru Made a Thorough
Examination and a
Report.

The United States Grand Jury made
their final report to the court this
morning at IL o'clock. The jury flied
into the court room and John Gardiner,
the foreman, submitted the following
report to the Judge:
To the Honorable District Court of
the First judicial District of the Ter
ritory Of Arizona. The Grand Jury of
the said court have the honor to sub
init final report as follows:
We have been In session three days
and there have been submitted to us
fifteen cases held to await the action
OF the Grand jury. of which six have
been ignored and nine indictments
have been found and returned.
Our attention was called to an at
fidas.l made by VIM NJ Hoey at the
October term of this court In which
charges were made OF the intercepting
and obstructing Of the mails of the
affiant and his attorneys by the OFF,
GERS engaged in investigating the facts
Of the alleged offense of the affiant. In
Investigating these charges. we have
examined ten witnesses, including In
that number every person suggested
TO us from any source as possibly
knowing anything that would throw
light on the charges, including the af-
fiant and his attorneys and all persons
suggested by them as possible wit
ilesses. AS result OF this investigation
we are unable TO ascertain any basis
for charge of any person with viol-
alton OF the law. nor do We find evil
dence tending TO SHOW that any Law
hA1 IssS ssss.S H. Al
legged In said affidavit, Respectfully
submitted
JOHN GARDINER.
Foreman.
HI is understood that some OF those
examined lay the Grand Jury as men
toned in the above report were Post
master Cheyney. Judge Barnes Charles
Blenman. Colonel Martin, Hon NJ, {.
AcLemore II. C.. Diekey. George Webb
and the defendant himself.
In their final report. the Grand Jury
returned the following additional In
dictments. Gullermo Nasquez, Angel
Vaienxnela and Stevens Alvarez. Ia
dicted on the charge of selling liquor
to an Indian. They were held TO await
the action OF the grand jury by Com
missioner Culver. Ayelino Flores
ignacio Ruiz and Rafael paIenxueia,
held To await the action of the Grand
Jury by Commissioner Campbell. were
also indicted on the charge OF selling
liquor to an Indian.
The indictments in the cases against
VIM. Harper and Ysidro Tomas. The
former Was held 10 await the action OF
the grand jury by Commissioner CuI-
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an Indian and the latter was held by
Commissioner George at Nogales on
the charge of smuggling,
On receiving the report Of the grand
Judge, Judge s)avis stated that after
conducting the investigation sueh as
had been done In the matter OF the
Hoey affidavit that ii was the duty of
the grand jury to either report an IN
dictment or To report that the charges
had been ignored. He stated that the
court merely observed that II vas not
necessary to go In to details of the in
eestlgation in the report 10 the court.
such as had been done In this case
He cited the case which occurred at the
session of court recently held at Tomb !
stone. where a government officer had
been charged with gambling. Inc
grand jury criticised him in their re-
nor, but made no accusation nor ala
they indiet him. This made il very EN- |
barrassing for him as he had no way
in which to clear himself OF the
charge.
Judge Davis stated that he did not
wish to eriticise the action of the grand
Jury. but that the court desired 10
thank them for the prompt and faith /
ful manner in which they had per
formed their duty. The jury was DIS
charged and the court took up the con-
..dara i'm of other business