The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-14
DOUBLE. E.BARRELEO CHARGE TO JURY
BY JUDGE RUSSELL At MARIETTA
If OFFICERS GUILTY BOOT.
LEooeRs, INDlcT PREACHER FOR


fidenCc upon The part OF the people
to help him do 1t. SO De careful That
you do no injustice But If you are
satisfied from the evidence present
ed before you that II any public Of
ficers have been criminally derelict
in their duty. IL is your duty to pre-
sent ,Aem and you must not be
swcrved from your duty by sympathy
or prejudice, or by hope Of reward or
promise thereof"
one of the local preachers stirred
up a good deal of town talk aCd excite
ment previous to thc cmpauclll"g OF
the grand jury by making wholesale
charges In public against several of
the county officers of Love county.
alleging they were in col.usion with
the boot-leggers, accepting br.bes and
that they were otherwise guilty OF
gross misconduct in office. This ef-
fort to- "BulginiZe' Marietta culmin-
atcd in the charges made by him be
ing brought to the attention of the
court by the county attorney, one OF
the officers concerned in the charges,
who OF his own accord asked for a
grand jury investigation of them.
Judge Russell delivered a doub'c bar
relied charge to the jury that has
set the town on the qui yiye and the
proceedings of the jury are being
watched with great deal of interest.
1T has been brought To my attol-
! tion that one or two Of your promin.
! cnt citiWns-mcn h gh in your com
munity-havc taken upon themselves
10 publicly brasd two on three Of
your county Officers with gross mis-.
cry and collusiOn with boot leggers.
You send for those men who are do
ing that,-lhave them brought up be-
fore you and let them submit their
proofs to you. II they can substan.
| tate their charges and you are sat
isficd with the evidence. indict the
officers. !, they cannot do II, then
turn TO the law of slander and turn
your guns upon the ones who are
circulating the reports.
II you find that they are doing SO
maliciously and without any founda
ton for their charges II is your duty
TO present them for circulating such
ISLANDERS, If you ND them to be- such.
"A mans good name Is the deares,
thing hc possesses and the good rep
utatiOn of a public Official is a. sacred
TO him as that of a private iudivid
ual. The circulation OF such reports
breeds distrust of your public officials
and hampers them in the due dis
charge OF their duties. SO the public
are as much concerned in these re
ports as the men themselves about
whom they are circulated. II the re
ports are true. then il is not slander
II the reports circulated by these
persons ARE not true, then not on,y
is grave injustice being done "a
thes" officials personally and official
ly, but the men circulating the re
ports are themselves guilty OF Islander
and they should be brought to task
0o matter how high they may stand
in your community"
II is understood that the couut,
attorney, MIR. l.. G. Logsdon. who 1
now in attendance upon the gra-c
jury vii ask 30 be temporarily re
liev'i when his other duties hav,
terminated and that the court, AZ Mr.
la csdon'S request will appoint an
other attorney to conduct full in
Ncstigation of the preachers charges
II was lumored upon the streets to
day that the preacher had called upoi
the county attorney ard offered a r.
traction, but that the latter Is nov
insisting upon full grand jury in
NcStlgat on