The Semi-weekly leader., 1905-11-29
IT OPENED MONDAY MORNING WITH
A FULL DOCKET.
Judge Wilkinson Delivers Strong
Charge to the Grand Jury.
Says Lincoln Is Making Progress Along
Law and Order Lines.

proceeded to draw the grand Jury.
Several persons whose names
were drawn from the box were
excused for one cause and anoth-
er. The grand jury as finally en-
paneled and sworn in was as fol-
lows: H. D. Bullock, W. A..
Brewer, W. B. Allen, j. S.
Reeves, W. J. Ellzey, |. W. Ma
son, Jesse Hoggatt, James Hux,
Virgil Brister, H. F. Morgan, ].
B. Greer, s. S. Applewhite,
Glove Gill, w. j. D, Hart, N. L.
Grice, N. M. Nevils, 3. L. Scott,
Lewis. All of the jurors are
farmers except W. A. Brewer,
who is railroad engineer.
W. j. Ellzey was appointed
foreman and Sam Dunn balliff.
After the usual Introductory
remarks, the Judge charged the
jury to present no person in a
spirit of revenge, and to spare ne
one through fear, favor or affec-
ton. He Congratulated the jury
and the county on the progress
made along law and order lines
SINCE be was first called TO the
bench here, but admonished them
that there is still much important
work to be done in this direction:
There are some things yet that
need to be Strengthened out, and
if the jury will do its duty and
bring the offenders to the bar of
this court, the court will endeav-
or to see that they are taught the
needed lesson.
1t will be the first duty of the
grand jury to Investigate the
cases Of persons in Jail, charged
with crime. There have been
three or four homicides commit
ted in the county since the last
court, and three men are in Jail
charged with murder. No person
has a right under the law to take
human life except in necessary
self defense. and theiary must
investigate all killings reported
to it and see If murder has bear
committed.
Gambling was referred to as
one of the most demoralizing and
corrupting VICES with which So
ciety is afflicted, and the jury was
charged to investigate and indict
the whole fraternity, if the evi-
dence could be secured, from the
gambler in cotton futures in the
Brookhavep Cotton Exchange
down to the nigger crap shooter.
Don't begin on The Insignificant
negro crap shooter first, but 60
after the big game, the business
man who CANDLES or the card
players around Brookhaven, who
wear standing collars and red
neckties, and if they are indicted
and convicted the court will see
that they are put behind Jail bars
like ordinary crap shooters. Cot
ton exchanges are all right and
serve the farmer and merchant a
good purpose when they furnish
the latest market quotations, but
the gambling feature is against
the law and should be broken up.
The cotton future gambler sooner
or later comes to grief. The
game is too big and tempting.
Look at the fate of SuHy, the
great cotton bull, and Theodore
Price, the big New York bear,
When men like these fail, what
can the small-fry fellow in the
country markets expect when he
CANDLES in futures! 1t will be a
good thing for the future gam
blers themselves for the jury to
lindict them.
Another thing. The clerks en-
pIoyed in the merchants stores
can't live on the salaries they re-
ceive and gamble at the same time
without 1obbing their employers.
! There is no such thing as an hon
est gambler in this day and time.
10 the days long past there may
have been, but not in this age and
generation, In my town the mer-
lchants won't employ a young man
in their stores who is known as q
gambler, and when you see q
young man behind their counters
land desks it is equivalent to GER
j titcate of character on this point.
| The court here gave several ex-
amples of young men who had
gone to town from the country to
lengage in business and been led
into temptation and ruined by the
gambling element. There is nc
place in Mississippi under the
lIawssfor the gambler or yagrant
except the jail or county farm.
/ Thecourt referred two or three
times in the course of his charge
Ito the hoodlumism at Harmony
IschooI house in the northern por-
ltion Of district No. 3, which was
so justly and severely condemned
lby Prof. Campbell in last Satur.
days Leader. That crowd was
just like that teacher described
lthem, declared the Court. ] reok-
on there were no men present
when they we're making that dis
graceful exhibition ID the pres.
ence of the women and children.
Eor they would not have got away
as they did. If was at q place
where a lot Of drunken hoodlums
acted that way before lot o.
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