The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-06-16
Am Echo of the Storbhar Case

To the Editor and Manager of the jacksonville Sun,
Jacksonville Fla:
Dear Sir-By direction of the Alachua County Bar
Association, ] hand you herewith resolutions
adopted by that association and request publication
thereof in your paper. AS you will see from the res
olutions themselves, and from the letter of Mr. Nc
Creary the Daily Sun has declined the publication
of the resolution. The Daily Sum- in publishing the
presentments OF the grand jury of this county
changed the verbiage OF the grand jury referring to
the complaint made against a certain attorney of
this county, whose name is given and whose name
appears in the accompanying resolutions. The pre-
sentiments, as published by Mr.. McCreary, do great
injustice to the members of the legal profession of
this county, and think it is due to the profession
that the truth should be known and that the present
ments should be published just they were written
and read in open court by the grand jury. The
Gainesville Elevator made true publication of the
presentments of the grand jury in the issue of June
7, 1906 We only ask that this injustice be remedied
and for that the association has directed me
to request you to publish the inclosed trust that
you will conform to our request and you that
the members of the legal profession in this county
will appreciate it very much indeed
With kind regards, and assurances of respect am
Yours very truly,
Wv. HAMPTON,
Vice President Alachua County Bar Association.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE ALACHUA
COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION.
Whereas, At meeting of the Aachua County Bar
Association, held the 9th day of June, A. D. 1906
the following resolutions were adopted, to-wt:
whereas, BY the failure of the Gainesville Daily
Sun to publish the presentment of the last grand
jury OF this county, as actually made, it is left in
doubt what attorney at this bar is referred to by
name in such presentment; and
Whereas By such failure the reputation of other
members OF this bar may be injurously affected;
therefore be IL
Resolved, That this association doth hereby re.
quest that newspaper to publish in full much of
that presentment pertains to this subject in the
words used by said grand jury, towit: And we
call the attention of your honor to what this grand
jury considers unseemly conduct of member of the
Gainesville bar 1t has come to our knowledge,
through the testimony of several members of the for
mer grand jury that whisky was kept on hand in the
office of Evans Halle, Esq, of the attorneys for
the defendant in q being considered by that
grand jury, and that several members of that grand
jury from time to time frequented his Office, where
they were given liquor to drink and where they other
wise accepted his hospitality. We were very much
grand jury, that Mr. Hailes Office was sort of head
quarters for him and other members of the
grand jury We feel warranted in cOndemning such
conduct on the part of these jurors rs well the
part OF the attorney, especially when he inter
ested in the outcome of charges to be brought before
that grand jury and they members of it. We
respectfully sumbt these facts to the court in order
that your honor may take such action to your
nonOr snail seem mt, for the honor OF the court and
the abatement of such practices
And that copy of this resolution be handed by
the secretary of this association to the editor of that
newspaper with request that he publish in
the Gainesville Sum-
:, And, Whereas, On the 18th day of June A. d. 1906
the editor of the Gainesville Sun returned the said
resolutions to the presiding officer of this association
accompanied by the following explanation towit:
Gainesville, Fla, June 7, 1905.
Col. w. w. Hampton VicePresident Alachua
County Bar Association, Gainesville Fla.
=, Dear Sir-The inclosed manuscript was left at
the Sun Office Wednesday night after had retired.
MY foreman informs that r. B. Ellis, Jr., author
ized him to sign your name thereto as above, hence
presume you are the proper one to address in ref
erence to same.
1T has always been my rule, editor of the Sun,
not to publish anything that would wound the feel
lngs OF or humiliate an innocent woman. This
my reason for emitting the name of certain attor-
ney mentioned in the grand jury presentment, and
as the publication of the resolution inclosed would
be contrary to my rule respectfully decline to give
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