The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1909-03-18
A RED HOT CHARGE
BY JUDGE MORRIS.
Second Week March Term
Cobb Superior Court
This Week.

The second week of March term
of Cobb Superior Court conven-
ed Monday. Judge N. A. Morris
presiding. Solicitor J. P. Brooke
and assistant, Howard Tate, pres
emit.
The following gentlemen COM
pose the Grand Jury:
S. Crowley, Foreman; G. L.
Gatlin, j. L. Gray, A. P. McLain,
L. P. Hairston, f A Moon, 7 J
Lunsford, John D Perkerson, D G
Moon, J w Reed, Henry Gaut-
schey, w M Pace, R D T Law
renee, w J Tapp, M A Mccoy, T
F Terry, w M Mckenzie, James
7 Anderson, T M Brumby, ST., w
J Manning, J R Griggs, Robert A
McCollum, w P Brown.
Cliff Mayes grand jury bailiff.
Judge Morris told the grand
jury that he would hold an ad-
journ term of court the first week
in July and they would serve until
and during that court.
His charge was in the main a
repetition of the charge of last
week, of which we gave d synop-
sis, except it was added to. He
said that it was painful to him to
refer to the fact that 1907 tax re-
celpts had been turned over to
parties in Marietta to the amount
of about $1,000, and receipts given
therefore and placed in safe and
credited as cash received, which
was not paid until the fall of 1908
and the county was borrowing
money at that time. Parties
holding said unpaid tax receipts,
if they voted, voted illegally, and
he asked the grand jury to investi-
gate it, report names and facts.
That he was sorry for the official
who had thus been imposed upon.
That if it was right to take receipts
from one and delay the payment
of taxes, it was right for all
Judge Morris said that the grand
jury could take under advisement
the employment of expert audi
tors to re-examine the books of
the county officials during the re-
cess of the court and the foreman
could report back any time and
he would reconvene the grand Jury.
The books had been examined by
the retiring Ordinary employing
Messrs. Will Attaway and G.. L.
Daniel, good, honest, upright,
clever men, disposed to do right
according to their ability, they
could add figures, but knew no
more about auditing books and
tracing sums of money than hog
about Sunday. The grand Jury
appointed two expert auditors,
the Ordinary refused to pay them
more than $500 per day, and they
did not serve, but subsequently,
he employed Messrs. Attaway and
Daniell and paid them $500 per
day to pass upon the handling of
the county's money and his own
books.
Judge Morris said the law re-
quired the county school commits
sloner to visit every school dur
ing each term, but he had been in
formed that some of these schools
hadn't been visited by the retir-
ing commissioner in four or five
years, and he had every reason to
believe it was true. And further
there had been great complaint
from teachers that their money
had been withheld after the mon
ey had passed into his hands as
the States agent, and as an at
torney he had demanded the mon
ey and secured it for his client.
If the Board of Education was
cognizant of these matters and
didn't take steps to rectlfy them,
they should be dismissed from Of
flee. He would insist that it was the
duty of the grand jury to investi-
gate all these matters bytheir COM
mittee, and auditors if there were
any appointed, and if there was
dereliction or wrong doing, they
should so report.
Some 2x4 fellow would say all
this was going into politics oh
his part, but not so, but q pur-
pose to have an honest and clean
administration of the county az.
fairs.
He would now put everybody on
notice that hereafter vote buying
either by money or whisky, tam
pering with the registration list,
or aDv othar il1aool rroo&;oo -