The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-24
Grand Jury Has Indicted
One Candidate.
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AND THERE MAY
BE MORE TO COME. E;
The Name Of the One Under In
dictmcnt Not Yet Made
PHliic.
MORE WITNESSES TO
BE EXAMINED TO-DAY.
II is Probable That the Work Of
Investigating the Recent Pri-
mary Will Then be Com
pleted-Much Curiosity
as to Who Indicted
Man May be.

A gasp OF mingled astonishment and dis
appointment issued from court officers
and spectators when at nightfall yester-
day the investigating grand jury OF Hen
rico arose from six long, dragging hours
of work and announced. not the expect
ed conclusion of It's tnsk, but another list
OF witnesses and further adjournment
until to-day.
To ompensate In some measure for this
surprising turn. totally at odds with every
indication that had presented itself dur
Ink tho six hours. the Jury let fall the
remark that 1t had agreed upon the cr1mi-
nal Indictment Of one Of the candidates IN
tho recently held election.
When the jury had gotten thus far With
It's report It suddenly developed that the
Indictment aforesaid had not yet been
signed. and the court instructed the gem
tlemen that the remainder OF the remark
could be withheld until compliance win
this detail was had. Thereupon the jury
retired for the evening.
Various inquisltory efforts failed OF the r
object and the question. Who is II!
/. still being asked at every hand. Three
-LIleIT oGtb VI luS Ju1 s''.oA' 90
ce.sion declined to answer this very In
teresting question. and the only court
Eoff1cer in a position where he might talk,
was not In position where he could.
Everybody else was asking Instead of
answering, and nobody seemed even Die
10 get satisfactory response. There was
good deal OF guessing, but 1t didn't
amount to very much
Probing Deep.
It is evident that the Jury is probing
deep, that It has found something already.
ind that It expects to find more. One In
dictment Is a certainty, and two or three
more are very strong possibilities.
The session yesterday. the second on the
election question. began shortly after IL
O clock and continued uninterruptcdly un-
til after s o'clock in the afternoon. what
went on behind the door that opened every
now and then to admit or to emit VIII
ness, 1t Is impossible to say. very con.
siderable interest was manifested IN and
around the Courthouse. In what was going
on. a n Interest no little accentuated by the
fact that nobody knew Just what this was.
Dinner time came and passed and the
lights had to be turned on. Still some
of the people fingered satisfied In the be-
lief that their patience would be reward
cd In that they were to be IN at the lnlsn
Of the Henrico Investigation. Inc july
men had gone without dinner and had
sent several miles off to got witness In
stead OF Just handing his name to the
sheriff that he might be summoned for
some other day. This looked like business.
The gentlemen finally issued from their
room and asked for further adjourn
ment. They suggested Wednesday. but
we're ready In their acqulescence when
the Court recommended to-day at II
, o'clock. Tho foreman announced that
thsv had finished part OF the work, but
not all OF It. They had agreed upon one
Indictment, but were yet considering the
others. The Judge asked fol the one but
Withdrew the request when he learned
that the paper had not yet been signed
THE Court was thereupon declared ad.
! ,ourned. The foreman handed the sheriff
a new list OF four witnesses and directed
him to call the names Of five old ones the
| Jury wished retained.
"Wc Are Probing.
All efforts to ascertain the name OF the
man against whom the indictment Is tc
be brought met with failure. Common
wealth,s Attorney Sands knew but could
not talk. So with several members o.
! the jury. ,u.o ~,
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