The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-07-20
Body Recommends Impeach-
ment of Justice Taylor.
Report Was Submitted to Judge
Thomas Observation-Disclosures
Short But an Interest
ing Document
Throughout.


grand jury of Montgomery County yester-
day submitted its report to Judge w.
H. Thomas and a somewhat sensational
document il is.
The report deals extensively with coun-
ty affairs, and by no means the least In
teres,ing feature of 1t is para graph rec
ommendng the impeachment of Justice
of the Peace w. A. Taylor of West End.
for alleged misconduct In ONCE and In
competence.
The grand jury was composed of S. Ro-
man, foreman; Ed c. Fowler, L.. ID. Jud-
kns, Paul w. Smith, e. w. Covington,
w. 7. Myrick, w. NJ. league.
The report alleges Illegal practice by
the ecorder's Court in trying felony cases
over which the court has no jurisdiction.
The report takes official notice of the
noise made by. the running of the cars
of the Montgomery Street Railway Com
pany on Sunday whereby the. religious
worship at the First Baptist Church and
thA Dexter Avenue Methodist Church is
disturbed.
The jury found that the bonds of the
county officials and the various Justices
of the Peace were good but recommended
a careful examination of their form to
preclude the possibility of any loss by the
county because of technicality.
Inc jury INPOl lhoe thO PNOA AANNA1~
was well kept.
Like its predecessors, the jury found
grave fault with conditions at the county
| jail. The womans ward was found almost
unbearable in the summer months. The
Jail was found entirely too small for
the demands made upon it.
The financial condition of the county
is touched upon and the jury reported
that Josiah Morris & Co. was due the
county of Montgomery on July 1, $nO,-
666.14.
Arequest is made that an examiner
| of public accounts be assigned to the duty
| of examining the books of the county
| officials of Montgomery. The request Is
| further made that the examiner file his
report with the next grand jury.
The report finds fault with the system
of bookkeeping of the Board Of Revenue
The report in full is as follows:
| To the Hon. william II. Thomas, Associ-
ate Judge of the City Court Of Mont
gomery.
The grand jury empanneled for the July
| term, 1902, having been continually in ses-
| sion for the past two weeks, have fin
| ished their labor and now beg to submit
to Your Honor their final report.
In their deliberations they were largely
| guided by your very able charge, which
I
| tire time.
We had 2S6 number of cases brought be-
| fore us, examined Gel witnesses and found
| IA indictments, which were handed to
| Your Honor.
A number of gaming cases were brought
to the attention of the grand jury, but tn :
evidence in most of them was SO evasive
and uncertain that true bills in such cases
would only have resulted in very little
| benefit and considerable cost to the coun-
| ty
Most of the charges of abusive language
| were frivolous and engendered by spite
| and as the docket is usually full of such
we think the law ought to be so amended
as to give magistrates the right to dis
pose of such cases without being COM
PEELED to report the Same to the grand
| jury and thus not only reduce the labor
| of the same, but also save the large eX-
pense for witness fees in such cases.
We find that there has been a large i'm
| prOvement in Sunday liquor trafhc. but
very few complaints having come before
us and while we think this particular Of
| Tense should be aeaiopsly guarded, we
would also recommend that places of bus
mess otherwise than baE7roems should be
prevented from doing business on Sunday
offenders in that line being just as guilty
gagged in the liquor traffic.
| We desire to call attention of the Re
corder's Court to the illegal practice OF
trying felony cases. OF which that court
has no Jurisdiction, and ask that such
practice upon the part of the Recorder
Court cease
We recommend the Impeachment OF
| w. A. Taylor, a Justice of the Peace al
West End. for corruption in ONCE and i'm
competency and this shall be the demand
bas required by law for such proceedings
We desire to call attention of the Street
Railway Company to the rapid and noisy
rate of speed Travelled by it's cars during
| the hours of services at the Methodist
Episcopal and Baptist Churches and other
places of public worship. and request that
| their cars cease to disturb religious
worship in those places.
We have examined carefully the bonds
of the county officials together with those
of Magistrates and Justices of the Peace,
and find them perfectly good, the only
| suggestion we beg to make is, that all
| bonds given by trust or surety company
should be investigated by judicial Of
| fcer. to see that they are in proper form,
to prevent hereafter any technical objec.
| tic n in such cases, --.
The poor house is kept in good condi-
ticn. the inmates are properly provided
| for and no complaints have been heard
| from any one on that subject.
| The Jail is entirely too small to ac-
| commodate the number of prisoners usu-
| ally confined therein. The kitchen is i'm
mediately under the women's ward, which
! makes their condition In the summer
| months almost unbearable We therefore
recommend that the building be enlarged
| to meet all requirements, or a new kitch-
| en- be built at once, detached from the
main building, in which case the present
kitchen will give more space for prison.
ers, besides doing away with the extreme
heat resulting therefPom. We would also
| suggest the placing in the premises of
| several electric lights and two water
closets. We would also strongly urge that
prisoners be furnished with ice water
during the heated term of summer
No complaints having been reported
from the different public roads of the
county, we take it for granted that they
are kept in good condition.
We find the court house kept in better
condition than formerly, but there Is still
room for great improvement, and jani-
tor should be employed at the expense of
the county to remedy any deficiency in
having same properly kept We also rec
ommend the necessary improvement of
sanitary arrangements in the jury rooms.
Upon examination of the books of the
County Treasurer we find to be due the
county by Josiah Morris & Co. the sum
of $1t0, 66G14 on July l, 1902.
There is also to the credit of the Coun-
ty Treasurer on July /, 1902. at the First
National Bank of Montgomery. Ala the
sum of $2,656.43, making a total due the
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