The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-09
GRIND AND SHAKE.
And the Grand Jury Has
Hardly Started.
Oh, Won't the Shakers Flop at the
Knees When Results of That "Se-
crit Cote Grindings are
Known.
Especial to News and Observer.

Especial to News and Observer
Greensboro, n. c., Sept. S.-When
the Grand jury in the Federal court
adjourned late yesterday afternoon, it
had caught smack up with District At
torney Holton, and he with Assistant
District Attorney Price and the Wash
ington City representatives of the De-
partment of Justice, were at work
at a late hour in the night preparing
new material for the examination Of
witnesses on or before the Grand jury
today 1t is now predicted that the
jury will be allowed to take a recess
when it gets through tonight until
Monday of next week, and that in the
interim, the law officials will have
taken a fresh holt from additional
knowledge gained this week from the
army of witnesses here and that a
large number of new SubpoenaS Will
be served between this and Monday
for an entirely new set of wrong doors.
Some one this morning mentioning
that he had seen in the paper that the
work would be completed by Saturday
night a gentleman present blurted out:
Whoever said that was badly off, for
we haven't more than started. The
moment he said it he got up and walk
ed off crestfallen. He was grand jul
ror and had forgotten about that oath
of secrecy although he never said any
thing to hurt, and said it just because
he wasn't a trained secret service di-
plomat. God'll never punish such salt
of the earth in native rugged natur-
alness of honest impulse for little
slip like that out of the fullneSS of
his knowledge and Importance. NO
more would Judge Boyd do it, even
had it been more serious
Wherefore This Whyness?"
The Federal court grand jury con-
tinues to draw" Such strict secrecy
is maintained, all efforts on the part
of any one to obtain information IS
supposed to be fruitless. But testi-
mony before the grand jury that there
were $4,000 bushels of corn shipped
to one town i'm one county Oh a certain
month last year, and only one thou
sand on the same month this, and
that in one township in this county
last year "a distilleries existed, and
this year there are but seven sorter
looks like last years being campaign
year might have something to do with
having a freight agent here to testify
about the corn and others about the
distilleries, and it may mean some
thing more. For instance, the gov
eminent detectives may have discover
ed that revenue officers We're told 10
grant immunities to certain parties
on account of the election, AMI this
being so there MAJ be enquiries into
the Wherefores of the whyneSS OF TINS
Immunity, who conceived 1t, who I'M
parted it, who winked at it and why
Then again somebody would have had
to run those diStillerieS contrary TO
law There's your blockader. Some
officers must have knowingly winked
at it. There's your unfaithfuf officer,
or your corrupt officer. Everything is
mighty secret.
An advance agent of some
Of the suspected, sent a telegram
to certain friend last night: skip.
1t is reported that this was the very
quintessence of greenneSs, because i
government detective knew it, and
along with the skip message went
Geographic order but ahead OF the
other to an officer, to arrest the party.
1t looks hard that old fashioned meth
DDS have played out. 1t must not be
supposed from the evidence of the
freight agent about the corn, that
the reyenuerS' and dstillerS' friends.
or the politicians on that side, &C
knowledged the corn On the other
hand they deny it meant Whiskey.ThaN
say that year before last everybody
in that section was so busy gettlng
and selling and hauling tan bark they
neglected the corn crop and had 10
have the corn because the corn was
not cultivated in sufficient quantities
for bread and hog fattening purposes.
While proceedings in the grand jury
are very secret and exclusive, those
on the outside are just as secret, but
interesting to the point of amusement.
'.She Done and Spit it Out
Yesterday a few We're laughing IN
a ioviaI countryfied exclusive conclaVe
over the trouble John Doe got into
Wednesday. John was at home in the
country about seven miles from his
county town Tuesday morning, his
good wife having been subpoenaed
and gone to Greensboro as witness
before the grand jury Suddenly
rider on a foaming horse dashed up
to the gate, and told John that Bill
Jones had sent word for him to go TO
Greensboro right away and bring his
wife back before she testified, and the
costs of his trip and the costs of her
fine for being non-preSent when called,
would be paid DaZed with a trip
of such importance to a big distant
CITY. at no cost in the world to him,
and on the railroad at that, John hur-
ried on his Sunday clothes, put on ms
shoes with socks on inside, and gal
roped to the station in order to eaten
the train. Reaching Greensboro, he
hurried to Bill Jones court agent IN
Greensboro and was Mortified to be
told that "By Gawd! Mary had already
been cotcht up by the jury and done
spit it out" John was so disappointed
and sorrowful he couldn't hold 1t, ana