The Nome nugget., 1903-06-13
A .SCATHlNG MANAGEMENT.


 sented by Mayor Rustgard. and 1 signed by eleven of the twenty-two members of the grand jury is a scathing rebuke of the methods em- tployed by Foreman Hill to be- smirch United States Marshal ssRichards, District Attorney Melvin |Crigsby and Assistant District Az ltorney Geo. B. Grigsby. The re- port is published in full elsewhere in this paper. It shows that while Foreman Hill lampooned the olli- cials named above, not a "scintilla of evidence was adduced in any pway, shape or manner rejecting on the marshal, and that the actions fof the marshal or his deputies or Of George Grigsby with reference to the Jolley case" were never referred to or discussed in the grand jury room. either by jurors or witnesses, until after the jury had completed their work and the final report was tfsubmitted for approval"
 Mayor Rustgard's report states explicitly and unqualifiedly that foreman Hills report is "abso- lutely unjustifed and without any foundation in fact" as far as any evidence before the grand jury is concerned; that it was wholly the result of ma lice and was introduced for the purpose of venting upon the said officials the spite of their en- emies both inside and outside the jury room.' The report further states that for four weeks the mar shal, his office and conduct were submitted to q most thorough and exhaustive examination, and the jury "wholly failed to exhume any Fnct of his which can reflect on his character or the conduct of his office"
 That is a complete vindication and the strongest refutation of the maligned and slandered officials. No hesmirching, no slime spewed in malice can do an honest official or an honest private citizen much harm. The motive for the vituper- ation is apparent. If any one has doubted that the grand jury was "jobbed and jobbed for a purpose" the gross maligning of the grand iury's foreman answers the doubt.
 Foreman Hill also went out of his way to throw mud at Col Grigsby, yet the matter of his ab- sence in Washington was never mentioned in the jury room. until Hills final report was suddenly sprung upon the jury for approval. Mayor Rustgard's report asserts that Col. Grigsby's work at the national capital during the last session of congress has been great blessing to the city, and that "in Mir. Ira D. Orton and Mir. George -Grigsby" the district had able, con- scicntious attorneys in charge of the office, and that the "lack of or dinary courtesy extended to these gentlemen by the grand jury to- gether with a number of other cir cumstances led us to believe that disagreement with them was pur- posely precipitated for the purpose of securing their removal or resig- nation." The accusations against tho marshal and district attorneys, embodied in Hills report. are char. acterized as cowardly and made for the purpose of aiding ono faction of federal officials in this city against the other faction, and it is alleged that the jurors who rem dered that report did, under the cloak of secrecy and privilege of the jury room, what they would not dare to do, unless so protected from prosecution"
 What can any fair-mindcd man think of this arraignment? What does Judge Moore think of it?