The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-17
JURY REPORT
 IS SCATHING
REVOLVING SYSTEM OF CRAFT IS REPORTED BETWEEN JUS
 TlCEs AND CONSTABLE.
CONFLICT IN CITY AFFAIRS
Lack of Harmony Between Police Judge and the City Police occa- sions Violations of the Gamblino Law and Law Against Drumming.

Law and Law Against Drumming. The grand jury submitted it's final report TO Circuit Judge Gotham yes | terday afternoon and was dismissed after having submitted not a lengthy but most scathing rebuke to the conditions existing within city, town l ship and county which had come Co the knowledge of that body through it's inquiry.
 There were ten indictments handed in, part of which reflect the work con tained and reviewed in the report of the grand jury.
 Particularly was the report plain and emphatic when it dealt with the evident cooperation between con stable and justices of the peace to procure fees from the county and in this line it advocated and endorsed to the people a campaign for com plete aboishment of the offices of justice of the peace as unnecessary.
 The evident lack of cooperation be- tween the police and the police judge, the jury reported, was responsible for a non-enforcement of the law against gambling and against drum ming. and in this end the grand jury urged that the officials cooperate in harmony in the future.
 There was a splendid compliment paid A. c. Sullenberger, the chancery and circuit clerk, in the report of the grand jury, this official having been making excessive fees. The grand jury found that no such condition ex- isted in the office of Mir Sullenberg- CT, and took occasion to state so em- phatcally in it's report.
 The complete report follows:
 Hot Springs, Ark.
 January 16, 1914. To the Hon. c. T. Gotham, Judge Cir
 cult Court, Garland County, Ar
 kansas
 Sir:
 We, the members of the grand jury of Garland county, sworn in by your honorable court on November 10, 1913, beg to submit herewith this, our final report.
 We have been is session seventeen days and during that time we have endeavored to fulfill the duties of our office and carry out the instructions that you gave us in your charge when sworn in We have acted only after diligent and scrupulOus inquiry asd have spared neither time CT expense to ourselves The most pleasant feel ing has at all times existed in our midst There has at no time been the slightest evidence of any preju- dice or personal feeling shown by any of us. Each and every member showed that he was endeavoring to fulhll his oath 10 the very best of his ability conscientiously and with an honest desire that justice be done to all.
 We have examined 1S7 witnesses  court forty true bills asd twenty dis missals.
 City Officers.
 We regret that owing to the lack of harmony existing between the ot. fcers of the city administration of the city of Hot Springs, particularly between the police department asd the police judge that there are many violations of the law, the gambling and drumming evils especially, of which there has been few convictions. A strenuous effort should be made by the officers to correct these evils by cooperating among themselves and working in harmony with other officers of the county
 Justice of the Peace.
 Our investigation of the fees of the county officers has developed an ap- palling condition existing in the of fees of the active justice of the peace and the constable in the city of Hot Sprisgs. We have found a system Of graft operating between the justice and constable offices, which are per mitted by law that warrants are is- sued on the most trivial information, numerous witnesses are subpoened, citizens are embarrassed by being dragged into court and very few con victions obtained and even when the convictions are obtained, the gully parties are frequently released on | worthless bonds and allowed to es- cape punishmest. The county is put to very large expense apparently for no bther purpose except for the fees th4 the constable and he jus