The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-29
Grand Jury Adjourned.

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The grand jury of the Circuit Court
of Dallas County which has been in
session here since September 8, ad-
journed this afternoon at l o'clock. The
docket of the court was also finished
this morning for the day. and the court
adjourned until tomorrow morning when
1t will reconvene and the docket again
taken up. The report rendered by the
grand jury was as follows:
To the Hon. B. NJ. Miller, Judge of the
Circuit Court of Dallas County:
We. the grand jury for this term of
court. after eleven days service, hav-
ing completed our labors. beg leave to
present our Anal report.
The able charge which your honor
gave us impressed us most profoundly,
and we laid particular stress to that
part CT your honor's charge relative to
the Illegal sale of Intoxicating drink
and the carrying of concealed weapons.
We have found 1t most difficult prob
lem to obtain from many witnesses we
had before us the desired informa ton
and 1t seems to us that many will rath-
er perjure themselves than betray their
| neighbors. We have no doubt that
whiskey and pistols are the source
| from which all the fearful crimes COM
| mitted in our county can be traced.
What, then, Is the remedy?
AS to concealed weapons
| w Iue the law OF the Iand allows
| every citizen to carry arms, we think
that this privilege should be limited,
and that a law should be placed upon
the statute books making It a crime
to sell dangerous weapons to irrespon-
| sible persons. and making 1t a felony
| instead of a misdemeanor to carry
weapons. Our Representatives to the
Legislature should he aslTed to bring
| these measures before that body
TtYT inc .
the books of sthe various county off,
GERS and have found them correct and
neatly kept. so far as we know
We have visited the county tail and
| find that the Jail and the Court House
is badly in need of repairs and recon-
| mend that the Board of County Com
missioners have such repairs made at
| once. We recommend that the follow
| Ing prisoners be released from TAIL:
| William McConico. Sydney Molten.
| One prisoner Joe Wesley by name
| should be held although we have
found no witnesses to testify againsc
him. The jail is in good sanitary con-
| dition and the prisoners are we'll fed
and comfortably provided for. We have
found and presented 151 indictments.
| We have issued vouchers for witness
fees. etc, amounting to $57452 and
| examined asa witnesses.
| We recommend that a law allowing
| $500 per year to those liable to road
| duty be changed and a fee of not less
| than $500 nor more than $1,000 per
year be allowed, this however Is left
to the discretion of the Hon. Board of
Revenues We further recommend that
the money collected for such fees
should be used for the purpose of
working the reads in the precinct In
which II is collected.
| We recommend that in future a
| stenographer be employed for the ex =
press purpose of taking testimony of
witnesses examined by the grand Jury
| We regretted that our able Solicitor
| could not be with us but a few days.
having been called to his home on ac
count of sickness in his family. bu.
are pleased to state that the valuable
and able assistance rendered US by
! the Hon. H. F. Reese aided us ver-
| materially in our work. for which we
| herewith tender to him our sincere
thanks
| In this connection we wish 10 saw
that Solicitor Thompson in the dis.
charge of his duties in the county has
demonstrated great ability to punish
and suppress crime. but we call at
tention to the fact that during thu
second week of the court the solicito.
| Is compelled to be in court and con-
sequently the grand jury iswithout a
legal advisor and its labors are great
y impeded We think he should be
provided by law with an assistant or
deputy solicitor for the county We
also wish to acknowledge the able
services rendered us by Mr. Dennis O.
Rourke as bailiff and herewith tender
our thanks to him. And now having
completed our labors we respectful :
ask to no discouraged.
Henry Lilienttral
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