New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-29
Penalty for Violating Law.

! Penalty for Violating Law.
! l need not tell YOU that If the of1cal
/ stenographer Of your body should disclose
any Of the official notes of the testimony
| taken by YOU, as a Judge OF the court |
! would recommend his indictment for a VIC
lation Of the statute
! need not tell YOU that if the court had
reason 10 believe that any portion OF your
deliberations had become public through
the action Of any Assistant District At
tcrney the court would recommend his
dismissal from office by his superior.
| ! need not tell you that If the court had
! reason 70 believe that any part OF your
! deliberations had become Pubic through
the action Of the District ATTORNEY of this
county the court would ask the Governor
to remove him.
This is perhaps scarcely the place 10 do
| II, and Yet the time may not be an uniting
| one in which 10 do 4, namely. make sug-
! gestion theoretically 10 YOU but practically
! TO that public whose servant ! am. and 10
! that press represented in this room, that
| henceforth the newspapers Of New York
! see 70 il that, acting In harmony with
| that law designed to preserve secrecy in
the grand jury room, they disclose naught
Of the public procedure OF your BODY. II
| in the public Judgment that law should be
| changed there are appropriate ways for
! q gitating IFS amendment
Judge Grain ended his speech hv dis
charging the grand jury after thanking
them for their work. but before they had
risen from their seats District Attorney
Whitman was on his feet with an as
surance 10 the court that the records Of
the grand jury had not been made pub
lie
l desire TO place upon the records Of
the court for the courts own informa-
ton and in justice to the grand jury
Mr. Whitman said. that though state
ments have appeared in the public press
in line with what the court has stated 70
1.-The grand jury, l. as the official Gus
todian of the minutes can assure your
honor that there has not been one word
Of the testimony that has been sub
mitted TO this grand jury made public,
and that neither the vote, the testimony,
the deliberations nor the actions Of this
body. nor any evidence submitted 10 il,
has been made public
And l am ready at all times TO sub
nit the record TO the court TO satisfy
your honor. although | know your honor
IS willing 10 take my word for it, that
not one single word Of the evidence
which has been submitted 10 this grand
Jury has ever been made public"
The following statement was issued
last night in the office Of Paul D.
Cravath. at No. - William street:
Mortimer L schif, upon being shown
the presentment by the grand jury In the
! Brandt case, said.
| | am of course delighted that the grand
Jury has once for all disposed Of Brandt g
| living tales and Of the charges OF con-
| sniraCy TO my mind IL has always been
perfectly clear, and still is, that the man
committed burglary in the first degree and
would have been convicted II he had stood
trial The main thing, however. is that
the long fight which my counsel and
have made for a full investigation has
been won, and that Brandt is al last shown
TO the public to be the lying criminal that
he Is.