Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-15
v. 7. CARTER IS
TIE FOREMAN OF
NEW GRAND Jury
Manufacturer Heads September
Term Inquest-County Courts
Begin Fall Session.
LARGE CROWD OF LAWYERS
ATTEND OPENING OF TERM
Justice Gummere Makes I'M
pressiVe Address, Outlining
Duty of Jurors.

With a large crowd of lawyers from
all parts of the county present the
September term of the county courts
opened today. Chief Justice William
S. Gummere, of the Supreme Court;
Judges Harry V. Osborne and VIII
liam p Martin, of the Common Pleas
Court; Judge Frederic Adams and
Nelson y. DUNCAN, of the Circuit
Court, and Judge Patrick j. Dolan of
the Juvenile Court were present at
the opening and presided in their re-
spective court rooms afterward to
hear motions and set trial days.
The first September grand jury
was sworn in by County Clerk Nc
Donough in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer, before the Chief Justice
The latter named as foreman William
r. Carter, a manufacturing 1eweler,
of the firm of Carter, Howe x Co,
and second vice president of the How
ard Savings Bank. Justice Gummere
charged the jurors upon their duties
as jurymen. He said that it was with
pleasure that he informed the jury
that no crimes had been committed
during the summer recess that were
of sufficient Importance to warrant
special instructions from the court.
Duties Explained.
He told the jurors, many of whom
are serving for the first time. of the
procedure in the grand jury room
and defined the meaning of indict-
ment and other terms used in con-
nection with their work. 1t was their
duty, he said, to hear the States
witnesses and then determine whether
or not the accused was probably
guilty. If an indictment was found
the grand jury's duty ended there,
the ultimate question of guilty was
one for the trial court and the petit
jury.
Stress was laid on the solemnity of
the oath taken by the grand jurors to
keep secret the happenings in the
jury room and to treat all with I'M
partiality. "No man is too high,
none too low to escape responsibility
for violation of the criminal law. In
the grand jury room you know no
man." concluded the court.
There were twenty-five jurymen
present at roll call. George B. Dwyer,
one of the men drawn, q leather man
ufacturer, is out of the State and it
was impossible to serve notice on him
to serve. He lives at 1916 Washington
street. Charles J. Murray. Of Bloom
field was excused.
Chief Justice Gummere assigned all
supreme Court Circuit cases 10 j uuBe
Adams for trial this term and all
Circuit court cases to Judge DUNCAN.
Judge DUNCAN and Judge Adams al
ternate between the Supreme Court
Circuit and Essex Circuit. Judge
Adams calls the list of causes in both
courts.
Judge Osborne and Judge Martin
set number of trial days and heard
numerous applications of various
kinds in the Common Pleas Courts
Both will sit every day this week eX-
cept Saturday. Next week the petit
Jurors will report for service and
Quarter Sessions cases will be heard.
The April term grand jury was dis
missed yesterday by Chief Justice
Gummere. The grand jury has not
been in session since the latter part
Of June, but was not formally dis
missed until yesterday to give place
to the September grand jury. Chief
Justice Gummere thanked the mem
bers of the jury for their services.
James F. Logan, an editor of the
Newark Evening News, foreman of
the jury, was given a handsome phon-
ograph and a set of records by his
colleagues. The presentation was
made in the grand jury room after
the dismissal, by Benedict Prieth,
chairman of the business committee
of the jury.