The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-29
five TRUE
BILLS FOUND.
Grand Jury Completes
Work of the Term.
SEVERAL CASES IGNORED
Harry Kennedy's Case is
Considered.
Perry johnson is Given His Freedom
Seven Cases were Ignored.

Only five true bills were returned
by the grand jury for the January
term of the court of common pleas
which, after five days deiiveration.
reported to Judge w. f. Scofield.
Friday afternoon. The following in
dictments were made:
Ray, alias Pearl Noggle, rape, al
legged to have been committed on
six-year-oid Marguerite Klingel. on
Nov. "a; Amel Thornton, larceny, 1t
being alleged that he stole a quantity
of copper and brass from the c. M
and b. railroad; Harry and Harvey
Crawbaugh, assault and battery, al
legged to have been committed on
John Felmuth, Dec. IL; Redmond
Lawrence, breaking into, sentering
and carrying away certain meats from
a Big Four freight car.
The following cases were ignored:
Noah Little, Ignatz Bender and Herb
ert Bender, resisting an officer; Will
liam Cubbison, defrauding a livery
keeper; William Fetter, assault and
battery: Alvin Showers, cutting with
intent to wound; Perry Johnson, per-
jury.
The cases of Harvey Bolander,
charged with non-support of a minor
child, was not considered by the
grand jury, owing to the fact that the
complaining witness was very i'll anG
could not appear before the grand
jury.
The grand jury went into session
Monday morning and considered in
all, 13 cases. There were siXty-eight
witnesses examined. p. G.. Harvey
was foreman of the jury. The grand
jury made probe into the case of
Harry Kennedy who has been In
the county Jail for about year on
a charge of rape, the victim being his
ten-year- daughter. Both the
daughter, her brother and Kennedy's
wife testified against the prisoner
when the case was considered by the
grand jury last May.
1t was found impossible to try the
case at that term as Harry n. Quigley,
counsel for the prisoner was out of
the city at the time. A postpone
ment was also secured by the defense
at the next term against the objec-
ton of the prosecutor G.. l.. Justice.
Then the defense announced that II
was ready for trial and 1t became
known Immediately afterward that
the little girl and boy had gone en-
tirely back on the stories they told
the grand jury. This made the case
of the state hopeless and the prose-
cutor has been endeavoring to find
out who influenced the children to
either tell long line of the most ter
rible untruths to the grand jury IN
the first place or else after having told
the truth were induced to change
their stories to free the parent, who
was said to have wronged his daugh-
ter.
The Jury found IL impossible TO get
at the root of the matter but the IN
vestigation will not stop and arrests
and prosecutions are expected before
the case is ended.
AS Harry Kennedy cannot be Longer
held, and II Is useless to go to trial
using the children as witnesses wher
they will not tell the same story they
told the grand jury and the state may
nor impeach its own witnesses, tho
indictment against Kennedy will II
all probability be nolled on motor
of the prosecuting attorney.
The failure of the grand jury tC
indict Perry Johnson wos also sur
prise. Young Johnson told one sto
ry under oath to the grand jury II
the incest case against his father ther
told an entirely different story to thu
Jury when his father was on trial II
the court of common pleas. He wal
arrested on a bench warrant and ha'
been confined in the jail since Oct
20. on Sept. 26, he was arrested
taken to Jail and held as witness
in the case against his father. Hc
secured his release on the day of the
trial. only to be rearrested and held
TO the grand jury. During the frs
incarceration he received 81 per day
witness fees.
Wien informed by Sheriff Starl
that he was free to leave the jai
whenever he wanted to. Young John
son left his supper but half eaten
packed his belongings and "hiked.'
1t is to prevent repetitions of the
Johnson case that the prosecutor al
this session of the grand jury en-
polyed the court stenographer to take
4 the testimony of witnesses and cases
of perjury may be more easily prov
en- in the future.
The grand ilry made visit to the
county Jail and recommended Sher-
1 iff Stark for the excellent manner in