The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-10-04


shows mo bill without complaining
witness having been heard" the facts
are that. where defendant was ar.
rested on a large number Of charges
the grand jury returned an j>Stctmeht
against him upon the str6 t case
and mo billed the otheA & .hich.
however. does not preclude ,state
from taking them up again.
Further, Mr.. Wayman insistA e I
In many cases the municipal kCS
judges have merely held defendanfh>
the grand jury without any compet6.
evidence, the term probable cause
being the cloak behind which 1t is,
made easy for the municipal Judge to
escape responsibility of a final decis-
ion by passing It to the grand jury.
The states attorney also says: "The
comment was frequently made by
members Of the grand jury that GER
tain judges of the municipal court
who are seemingly taking the most
offense because the grand jury did not
concur in their views. were more i'm
bued with the idea of reducing the
percentage Of discharges than they
were in the administration of justice" !"
Invites Judges to Step Out.
"This Office has not yet. reached the
place where it notices anonymous let
ters or can pay any attention to at
tacks from anonymous persons" said
the prosecutor in his statement. eff
certain municipal judges who are in
spring these criticisms will step out
from behind the cloak Of the munich
pal court, where they can be seen as
we'll as heard, we have have something
to say. The grand Jury docket and the
trial docket Of the criminal court Of
Cook county are public records and
are accessible to all. And the fact
that the grand jury so frequently dis
agrees with the opinion of these two
judges is more remarkable than the
fact that the supreme and appellate
courts so frequently disagree with
them"
Olson Insists Peace is Unbroken.
Chief Justice Olson insisted that he
had no quarrel with Mr.. Wayman. "'If
there is any trouble between Mr.. Way
man and myself he and l will know
it before the public WILL" said the
chief justice. $50 far as know there
ts no enmity relative to criticisms that
have been discussed.
GemmilPs Cases Do Not Suffer.
Judge Gemmill said that in the sixty
or seventy cases that were o-billed"
by the June grand jury none of his
were in the batch. -
did not make the motion In the
jNdees' meeting directing that the re-:
port be sent to the states attorney
with the request that he explain why
certain witnesses that appeared in the
municipal court were not summoned
before the grand Jury" said Judge
Gemmell. Il suppose some one car
ried this information to Mr.. Wayman.
as there fs always some one ready to
talk.
Says Records Show.
"The records show this, and it was
done without any personal feeling
against the states attorney. 1t looked
strange that our judges were holding
to the grand jury such large num-
ber Of cases in which the evidence
was insufficient. The point to this
whole controversy seems to be missed
by the states attorney, and that is that
the same witnesses that appeared in
that appeared in the municipal court
not all go before the grand jury"
Judge Going explained that in >issu-
lag the warrant for the arrest of
Monkey Face" Genker he had not
acted in an unusual way in not first
notifying the states attorneys Office.
Il had just returned from vacation
about that time," said the Judge, "and
was not familiar with all the grape
vines shooting out in connection with
the case"
Wayman Out With Lorimer.
A bit of inside political information
leaked out when a story became pub
lie that the states attorney had brak-
en- off all political relations with SEN
ator William Lorimer. Loring was
quoted as having said, keep away
from that fellow" meaning the states
attorney. Men who are in the con-
fidence of the senator say that he did
not make the remark credited to him,
but 1t was done in a bantering way.
Lorimer, say these men, warned his
friends not to run to the states attor-
ney for favors or ask him to do any
thing that might be embarrassing.
Gemmill Laughs at Story.
Judge Gemmill laughed at rumor
that he might have been Influenced to
criticise the states attorney because
of friends who are close to the pres
ent city administration. Alderman
Foell Of the Twenty-first ward was
formerly a law partner of Judge Gem
mills. Foell issa close friend Of Mayor
Buses and reports were abroad that
this might have entered the contro-
versy. 81.
"Why, I have not seen Foell, for
months" said, Judge Gemmill, "and at
no time has he talked to me about the
investigations the states attorney is
carrying on. That is Just an idle
rumor. Personally / have a high re-
gard for Mr.. Wayman and did what
could for him when he was running
for states attorney
Denies He Had III Feeling. +.
. Judge Going, who comes from the
Twenty-fourth ward. in which Edward
]. Brundage, corporation counsel,
lives. and 10 the Republican county
committeeman, denied that, he had
ever been actuated' by any personal
feelings In anything he did that, re-
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