The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-17

The grand jury Of the circuit court.
which has been i'm session for the
past ten DAYS. investigating murder
cases and other matters brought To-
its attention. adjourned yesterday
making it's final presentmeut TO the
court in the forenoon. The report,
which is quite a lengthy one was read
Co the court. and afterwards the mem
bers were discharged from further
duty.
Many matters are touched upon.
showing that the jury had not been
idle during the days it was i'm ses-
sion. The report in full is 1s follows.
Grand Jury Pressntment
Circuit Court First Judicial Circuit
Escambia County. State of Fl0ri-
da Fall term, A. ID. 1905.
To the Honorable Francis B Carter,
judge of the First Judicial Circuit
of Florida. sitting in EsCamaia
County Greeting.
The Grand jury of Escambia COuu-
ty for the fall term a. ID. 1905. having
completed their labors mlgr your
hOnOrs charge and having heretofore
of all indictments or true bills found.
DO now desires to- submit his, their
general or final presenment and ask
that they be discharged by your honor
We examined into FIVE homicide
cases and I'm three OF these cases we
deemed the evidence sufficient and we
returned true bills for murder in the
first degree. In two of the cases wa
deemed the evidence insufficient and
therefore aturned mo true bills and
reported accordingly tO your honor.
that the defendants in those cases
might be discharged.
I'm the course of our Investigation
we found no occasion to return amy
true bin against any physician for
secreting or cOncealing the existence
of any contagious disease ir this
county. neither did we in0 occasion
TO- return any true bin against any
person for maliciously and falsely re-
porting tine existence Of amy cour8g--
GUS disease in the county.
We started iur4 the investigation
of the death of the mate and seaman
on board tine German shi1 kaiser.
but finding that at tde time of these
deaths said vessel Vas without Che
Jurisdiction of the county Of Escam.
bia. we discontinued any further cZ-
animation.
Death Certificates
I'm the course of our investigation
we caused the city clerk r0 come be-
fore as and submit the death certd-
Gates filed with him from August I.
1905. TO December Is, and we eXamin-
ed these certificates and iu several
cases we found mistakes in the dates.
For instance we found some certif-
Gates which on their face reported
deaths from yellow fever iu the early
days fin August, these were clearly
mistakes of date. for there was mo- re-
port whatever of yellow fever here
until the 29rh day of August and too.
in the cases referred 90. I- was within
the personal knowledge of several o.
The jurors when the individual whose
deaths were reported in said cer.l-
fcates died, and they died in the early
days Of September Ir was clearly
a mistake of the physician in writing
August when be meant Septem-
ber' and as these certificates remain
on file and might leave false impress
sions iu the future we call attention
10 the mistake now. ami suggest 10
the physicians. undertakes and others
that in future that they De very care
full as tO dates in these Certidcata Isl
and that they promptly return them
90 the proper officials, and we w0rif
suggest TO the city clerk fWhla az is
not subject TO- our sugEesri0nsJ thar
he file mark all death certificates when
they are fled with him. thus dOut'v
assuring the cOrrectu= Of the date
when same are filed. We found also
that there was some conflict as %
causes of death OF certain parties this
summer. In some cases the dea
certificate filed by the physician 1r
party attending the person who died
reported the cause from one disease
while The state health authorities re-
ported the death from a different dis